The greatest movie ever!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Ferocious Planet is pretty bad but I watched it anyway. The clichés abound but the technical issues dominate the film. If you are going to make a movie in Ireland, then why does it have to be set in the USA and the Senator be a jackass? "I have a device smaller than a suitcase which can produce unlimited free power for nothing, but I need 250 million in funding". Please, 250 million, billion, trillion? That alone is priceless, but the side effect is the ability to view parallel universes. Sigh... The men are dumb jocks and the women all have "Dr." first in their names. But, they do wear skirts, blouses and dressy shoes to flail around in. Oh, did I mention curly hair? RawR! I warned you !

Acting : Joe Flanigan does his thing and is likable, John Rhys Davies adopts an hilarious accent. Naughtiness : nothing.Effects : bargain basement CGI with one practical creature that spurts ammonia as blood, the effect where the ammonia sprays on a guys face killing him is competently done. The scenes of the larger CGI creatures running about the forest are laughable.Music : Cheap as can be expected .Cinematography: Poor, too many static camera shots of bad acting.Overall : Intrigued that this was filmed in Dublin. Not the worst Syfy effort, Flanigan is always likable but it gets tiresome watching a bunch of people running back and forth through the woods. Fave scene had to be the quicksand bit.

A team of observers check out a groundbreaking scientific device with the ability to open windows into other parallel dimensions. However, said team find themselves in considerable peril after they are accidentally transported to a hostile alien world populated by vicious predatory beasts. Director Billy O'Brien, working from a compact script by Douglas G. Davis, relates the entertaining story at a snappy pace, delivers a few cool bits of mild gore, generates a reasonable amount of tension, and further spices things up with an amusing sense of inspired sarcastic humor. The competent acting by the solid cast keeps this movie humming: Joe Flanigan as scruffy, disgraced Colonel Sam Synn, John Rhys-Davies as the arrogant and overbearing Senator Jackson Crenshaw, Catherine Walker as the spunky, willful Dr. Karen Fast, Dagmar Doring as the frosty Dr. Jillian O'Hara, Robert Soohan as O'Hara's twitchy assistant Brian Murphy, and Yare Michael Jegbefume as the amiable Lt. Rivers. The CGI creatures look pretty hokey and convincing, but nonetheless still possess a certain tacky charm. Moreover, the plot is admittedly silly, yet fortunately gets handled with a sincerity and a dry self-deprecating wit that's both refreshing and appealing. Both Peter Robertson's sharp cinematography and Ray Harmon's spirited marital score are up to par. A fun little flick.

Well, at least the actors and crew showed up for work everyday and got paid (hopefully) and bought consumer goods to stimulate the economy. If you get scared by a Pterodactyl that was raised on Thalidomide then a broom would scare you with a sweater hanging from it. Hey, that would actually be a better "creature" to scare you than that phony CGI creation. Let's go back to molded creatures, they really do have more presence, even a gorilla with a diving mask on is scarier. The word is animatronics, working mechanical creatures/monsters.The plot is simple as scientists and military get transported to another time and place and get chased by an anemic creature with over proportional teeth, an unnecessary evolutionary development. So the CGI creature chases them around the woods, killing off the ensemble one by one until the boy and girl at the end get the machine and get back to our time, (one supposes).A few quips do not save this movie, but what if...the parking meter could have been developed into a scene. For example, a shot could have the meter in the f.g. while they approach in the b.g. The meter head is running out of time and POP up comes the flag. As they near, one of the "civilians" reaches into his pocket and puts a 25 cents into the meter. The soldier quips, "Do you think this will give us enough time". Dr. responds, "Not if there is a meter maid around". Where was their script doctor, on vacation?Does SAG advertise in Backstage with ads that say, MUST BE ABLE TO ACT SCARED WITH A SCARY CREATURE, BUT WITH A GREEN SCREEN. There is probably a green screen workshop at the Learning Annex somewhere.The Doctor in the white see-through blouse and black skirt really needed to have a few buttons ripped open during her antics in the woods and reveal a lot more cleavage. Messed up hair would also help as she descends into madness at her discovery at the end of the movie in this pseudo Twilight zone ending. "It's not fair"...says Burgess Meredith, in Time Enough at Last.And, please SyFy, get a photographer to get head shots of all actors. How hard is that? Take some of that poorly spent CGI dough and get one.