Attack of the Sabretooth
Attack of the Sabretooth
| 14 July 2005 (USA)
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In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of college smalltime thieves puts a virus in the security system to participate in a scavenger hunt, the greatest attractions of the zoo - sabretoothes from the prehistoric age developed from DNA found in fossils - escape, killing the hosts and guards for fun.

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CrawlerChunky

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Lollivan

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Nayan Gough

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Geraldine

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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TheLittleSongbird

I was expecting little from Attack of the Sabretooth, and got very little. Even with its major problems somehow it is not SyFy's worst or among them. The only real redeeming quality is Robert Carradine, who has been better but at least tries his best with bad lines and a clichéd character. The rest of the acting is awful, especially from the teenagers, ranging from bland to ridiculously over-the-top. In all honesty though they are not helped by the terribly stilted writing which does nothing to develop the characters or make us care about their situation, and how stereotypically and annoyingly their characters are written, at the end of the day you don't give a toss about these people. The story is also a mess, predictable, dully paced and also derivative of Jurassic Park but without the excitement and thrills. And visually Attack of the Sabretooth looks very cheap, with choppy editing and effects so bad and fake that you can't help but laugh. There is a lot of gore, but excessive and cheap-looking at that, part of the reason why the death scenes seemed so poorly done as well the lack of any real sense of terror or suspense. Overall, a really bad movie but despite its many problems I've seen worse. 2/10 Bethany Cox

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sol

**Some Spoilers** Run of the mill prehistoric DNA generated monster flick involving this group of fun loving teenagers going on a scavenger hunt on the exclusive island paradise of Valalola in the Fuji islands. It's there that the island's owner the arrogant and all full of himself Niles is planning his Primal Park resort where he has genetically engineered three ferocious saber tooth tigers. Niles did all that in order to attract thousands of tourists and their millions of dollars they'll be more then willing to spend to see the prehistoric big cats.Niles wanting to stick it to his ex-brother in law Grant who had once bankrupted him in a drawn out legal battle now what's him to eat his heart out on this new found gold mine he has in Valalola. It turns out that the only ones doing any eating in the movie is this trio of saber tooth tigers who by the time the movie is over have eaten almost the entire cast, including Grant and his stuck up girlfriend Autumn.This horror begins when scavenger hunt participants Robby & Kirk disarm the islands security system releasing the big cats on those millionaire Wall Street big wigs who came to invest in Niel's latest venture. Not wanting to scare his future clients away Niles does everything he can to keep them from finding out that their lives are in danger thus endangering them even more then they already are!The saber tooth tigers themselves are a piece of work in that their severally bulimic causing them, after tearing them apart, to takes just a bite or two out of their victim's and leaving what's left more or less, for a better word, both intact and in pieces! The biggest of the three big cats, weighing almost a ton, is unable to use his hind legs causing him to crawl after his victims who are either too scared or hysterical, with laughter, to run away from him.Niles himself is so stuck on his latest invention, the park and it's man eating inhabitants, that he still doesn't get it in how dangerous the big cats are until the very end of the movie. It's then that Niles finally gets the point to how crazy his venture with the unknown and unexpected really is by the "point", a what looks like a 12 foot long saber tooth, getting to him first!Not that bad of a made for TV horror/monster movie with the special effects as good as you can expect them to be for it's less then 3 million dollar budget. About a third of what the salary of actor Bruce Willis would be if he stared in the film.

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kev89

I caught this on SciFi on while ago and it's one of the better SciFi original movies out there. That's not saying much, but I enjoyed it.Story- I'll say it now, the story sucks. It's a rip off of Jurassic Park. The theme park is called Primal Park and it even has the same logo, with a sabretooth. We have the typical group of college students, a smart Asian, a hot love interest, a goth girl, a dumb jock, and a dumb blonde. And we have the typical greedy business owner who suffers a terrible fate. Plus, a security guard in an affair with a park employee that really makes no sense. Oh, and the business owner's evil brother-in-law. Yeah, I'll stop there. Story gets a 1 out of 10.Effects- The special effects are so bad it's funny. First, a couple of nameless security guards get offed in the most unrealistic way possible. Then, when we see the sabretooths, they look so fake, it's disturbing. Then, three of the main characters suffer three of the fakest, and funniest, decapitations in movie history. Remember I said the greedy business owner suffers a terrible fate. Well, the tooth on a giant sabretooth structure falls right into his mouth, instantly killing the man, resulting in the stupidest, most pointless, death in movie history. Again, it is hilarious. I'll say the effects are average due to the humorous fakeness, and give them a 5 out of 10.Rewatchability- Let's just say, it's funny the first time you watch it, but it gets old fast.So, in the end, the only thing that makes this an average movie is the hilarious deaths. None of the others are quite as funny as the tooth in the mouth, but they're all pretty funny, especially since it's impossible for you to feel bad for any of them with the crappy story. I recommend watching it once, but don't buy it. 5 out of 10.

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stormruston

Take "Jurassic park" and remove the acting ability of the cast, shrink the special effects budget to about 5 dollars, and take out any interesting parts of the plot and you have "Attack of the Sabretooth".Still I did enjoy this amusing "B" movie and i based my rating on other movies in this gutter league.The acting ranged from weak: the cast of teens, to pretty good : the "maintenance man", to over the top: the park owner and his ex brother in law.The CGI is occasionally cool.The gore is fun and a few of the death scenes fairly imaginative.If you are a fan of garbage gore B movies this one might be worth a look for you.

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