Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A Masterpiece!

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Expertly directed by gifted, BAFTA nominated veteran Robert Young and highlighted by an outstanding performance by Oscar winning actor Abraham, this is a film that deserves to be enjoyed by a wider audience. It features as well a supporting cast of exciting young faces who we're sure to see much more of in the future. The special effects are lackluster due to budget constraints but Young uses his time honored skills to bring the thrills to life in spite of that. Abraham gives a subtly stunning characterization and while watching him work his magic, it is readily realized by any viewer that this is a true artist at work. Every moment he is on screen is mesmerizing and it is obvious why this is someone with an Academy Award for best actor on his night stand. The location shooting in Thailand is fresh and put to superb use and the cinematography is breathtaking. Unfortunately, the script is a bit weak but the actors overcome this through their burgeoning talent. Certainly a film worth seeing in order to see two cinema masters such as Robert Young and F. Murray Abraham work together so beautifully.

My Girlfriend bought this movie for 1 Euro and mean everybody must have a ridiculous Horror-Movie in his DVD collection. She didn't knew what she was buying. Lets start with the actors: Mr. Abrahams well known for great movies like Amadeus shows us in this movie that he is no longer an actor with attitude! But he is the only one who makes this movie a little bit better. But the script is so bad that no one can have done it better! The rest of the actors are not well-known and thats better this way.about the movie: Monster-apes: You nearly don't see any apes in the entire movie, only in the last few seconds of the film and when you see the CGI ape you know why.Gore: Not much but a lot of gore didn't saved the movie from being garbage.Story: completely ridiculous! A Professor who starts a knowingly dangerous trip with students to search monster apes. Enough said. The movie is crap and the story is a punch in the face. you cannot even laugh about this.P.S. If you really looking forward to see this movie take a look at the scene where the apes urinate on the tents of the students to mark their victims. This looks like a fire department mission!

Blood Monkey (2007)* 1/2 (out of 4)Yet another Creature Feature from the Sci-Fi Channel. This one here has six Americans going into the jungles of Africa where they meet up with Professor Hamilton (F. Murray Abraham). The Professor has been doing research on various monkeys and thinks he has discovered a location where extremely large ones live but soon when the group is on their land the creatures attack. The more of these films I watch the more certain I'm becoming that not much really changes from one to the next with the exception being whatever monster they decide to show. As usual we get the typical stereotypes going into the jungle and of course becoming victims. I don't mind these groups going to get slaughtered but I do wish that if the screenplay wants them to be smart and intelligent doctors or brain surgeons then the actors should at least make us believe these characters. As usual we got the idiots you'd expect to see in a film like this and of course they make one mistake after another and this eventually leads to their deaths. I think the biggest problem with this film is that it takes forever to get going. We get a pretty gory attack to start the film and then that's pretty much it for the next hour as we get to know our Americans as well as the doctor. We spend a hour getting to know them yet we really don't get to know anything about them because their "character development" is about as lame as some of the acting. It goes without saying but you really don't expect to see someone like Abraham in a movie like this but he appears to be giving it his all even though I'm sure he was just picking up a paycheck. I'll admit that seeing him come across this gory battlefield and just kicking body parts around made me laugh. The creature here is 100% CGI and looks terrible. I think a lot of people are going to be upset that the creature doesn't appear too often but then again, once you do see it you might want it to just stay away.

On a scale of "Good" -> "Bad" -> "So bad it's good", I have to rate this waste of digital video tape as "A Waste of Digital Video Tape"."Blood Monkey" lacks two things: Blood, and a Monkey. It has one Name, and a bunch of waiter-slash-actors doing the biggest and best movie they'll ever be in.And that's two truly sad things. One: that there are people in Hollywood who are desperate enough to be cast in a Waste of Digital Video Tape like this, and two: that there's apparently nobody better available. I jest not - every "actor" in this piece should be wearing a name tag, because it's otherwise impossible to remember who they are from one cut to the next. It's a positive relief when they are mercifully dispatched by the makeup department, and a shame that they're not put out of our misery sooner.Everything about this disaster is amateur hour. Script, cinematography, editing, score, everything. Nobody working on it gave a Goddamn about this movie. The utter contempt for the viewer just spurts out of the screen in every scene.Don't watch this, no matter how bored you are. Watch anything - except the Star Wars Holiday Special - instead of this. Yes, anything, including Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. That's how bad we're talking.And if you rate this higher than a 1? God have mercy on your soul, because no mortal will.