Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A different way of telling a story

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

In the early 1970s in the Caribbean, Dr. Ernest Bishop is part of a military experiment involving a creature that is part shark, part dolphin, and part something else (I'll let you find that out later). Something goes terribly wrong and at least one person dies. And the creature is loose to wreak havoc 25 years later (never mind the fact that it is somehow able to go for years without eating).Ben Madiera is a member of a group fishing off the coast of Dr. Simon Chase's island. Dr. Chase is tracking a great white shark he has tagged, and has discovered one of Madiera's group has caught it. He pleads for the great white to be released, but they refuse. Dr. Chase frees the shark anyway, and from this point on he is hated by Madiera's group.Several people die in what seem to be shark attacks, so naturally Dr. Chase is blamed, since that must have been his shark. There is evidence the creature is not a shark, but people won't listen. Dr. Chase's ex, Dr. Amanda Mayson, comes to the rescue, bringing the couple's son Max, who is always being put in danger. Dr. Chase's research finally indicates the military was involved with the creature, and he is put in touch with Admiral Aaron Richland, whose only concern is covering up what makes the Navy look bad. Dr. Bishop is just a burned-out mess, much like hippies who took too many drugs.Dr. Chase acts a little too zealously because he discovers the research that led to the creature might have cured his brother's cancer had it been made available, and he wants the world to know about the findings. This may not be a good idea.As one might expect, more people die and no one seems to take Dr. Chase seriously, people use amazingly bad judgment, and of course there is an exciting and dangerous sequence of events toward the end. This was actually better than I was expecting. There were lots of enjoyable family moments, and I liked the conflict between Dr. Chase and those who should have acted to correct the situation and save lives. Craig T. Nelson did a fine job, considering the material, and there was more good acting. I don't particularly enjoy scary movies, but there's plenty of excitement here for those who like that sort of thing.Whether the Caribbean cultural rituals were done correctly I can't say, but they sure looked real to me. I didn't really enjoy them, though.I didn't enjoy looking at the creature, but it sure looked scary enough.It's no classic, but it might be entertaining.

I watched the greatest film of all-time last night in my un-sleepiness. It was called "Creature," and it starred Craig T. Nelson of Coach fame, as Dr. Chase. Dr. Chase gets called into an island community where wither people are reported missing or they are found in bits and pieces. I don't know this informations, as I came in halfway through the movie. Anwyay, for some reason coach is upset and needs to find a new defensive coordinator before the big game or something. At the point where I came in, coach's son in the movie was trying to get this lady to understand that coach was worried about the people on the island.As it turns out there is a secret military base on the island... I don't know how this is important. I later find out the creature was created in the secret military base or something. The secret military base had something to do with the origin of the creature. Anyway, I'm a little scared, because menacing music is playing while the kid is talking to Coach, and then... the creature strikes! I must say at this point that I believe I came into "Creature' at perfect moment, because "Creature" is a 4-HOUR PROGRAM!!!! Anyway, the Creature is an amphibious shark, that is obviously a plastic model that doesn't move. I know this by the way every scene with the Creature is shot, and so will you. This either proves movie making is not rocket science, or the Creature was created with a budget somewhere around $75. the Creature really looks like "Trogdoor the Burninator" of Homestar Runner fame, right down to the beefy arms coming out the back of his neck. Also, in this movie, you can't fight off the creature even though he appears to be about 4'6 and totally inflexible. The attack scenes are just god-awful Anyway, after a while I noticed Samantha from Sex and the City was in the movie. Apparently she answered an ad in the back of a dirty magazine and was on the island in order to shoot some sort of film with the Creature or something. Right about that time I fell asleep. The movie was definitely my favorite made-for-TV moment of all-time.

Of all the comments I've seen so far, not one person has mentioned the availability of this movie! Has it been released to DVD or is the production company holding it ransom. I'm a big fan of JAWS and thought the design and creation of the "creature" itself was outstanding. Human casts aside, that shark did it's job. Now years later, no one can find it on DVD. IF it is out there, could someone e-mail me (jcdslayer@hotmail.com) and let me know!? I am seriously interested in watching this movie again but have no way of finding it. So, please, if anyone knows anything about it being on DVD, please let me know. Thank you.

I managed to miss (purposely) this 'movie' when it originally aired and I should have heeded my own warning.Someone said this movie was a 'gem'.. well, some gems need to be re-buried and covered by 48 billion tons of rock. I was saddened to see how the once semi-popular stars Craig T. Nelson (the Poltergeist series, Coach) and Kim Catrall (Sex in the City, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country) had waded into the dismal abyss of c-grade films. This film has it all, a dull plot, terrible acting, REALLY cheap effects. Wow... A shark that can walk. I remember the unfunny cartoon with the same premise: Jabberjaw, from way back in the 70's. The biggest difference is we were SUPPOSED to laugh at Jabberjaw.Something tells me that Nelson was the real loser in this affair since some people can't recover from a somewhat tepid career after a run of moderate successes. Catrall is a decent actress, at least she had a longtime stint on the beforementioned 'Sex in the City', which is currently in reruns. The crazy islander / former lab technician looked like he'd sniffed about one too many tubes of Testor's Model Glue or worked in a factory that manufactures Sharpie's. The 'creature' was incredibly bad, which made it difficult to buy into the whole premise.I'll save my time and not even comment on Creature 2, because I turned it off about 5 minutes into it. I'm at the point at wondering if the Sci-Fi Channel's budget is so meager it can't afford to show a decent A OR B-list film, they're even worse at making their own productions.