Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

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.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Just one of many new, lower-budgeted B-movies, designed to resemble the classic '50s monster movies of old and generally involving some creature or monster animated by the spanking new process of CGI. OCTOPUS is a travesty, a moronic movie full of brainless characters, appalling dialogue and more holes than a lump of Swiss cheese. Yet, it remains oddly enjoyable. Why, I wonder? The pacing is fast, for a start, and the plot is a chock with action. Not content with just providing a straightforward giant monster movie, the writer throws in an action-thriller angle involving a major terrorist being transported to America on board the submarine. You know, just like in TURBULENCE, PASSENGER 57, and two dozen other movies from the '90s.Sadly the terrorist angle of the plot is more annoying than anything, due to the hero's reluctance to kill the man. On numerous occasions he is quite in his rights to shoot the man dead – after all, the terrorist kills about a dozen people (off screen), has blown up nine embassies, and is a real creep. But our wimpish, loathsome, baby-faced hero just can't bring himself to pull the trigger. The fourth time this happens is extremely aggravating. So the terrorist – played by overacting Russian actor Ravil Issyanov – is kept alive, despite the rest of the crew dying.The story is pathetic and rips off about ten movies as it goes along. In fact everything that happens is a cliché and there is not one surprise to be had. To tie up loose plot ends they just blow up stuff in big, cheesy, unrealistic CGI explosions. Speaking of CGI, the octopus itself is very fake-looking, just like the computer animation that it is. Even the epic scenes at the end of it attacking the (CGI) cruise liner are just poor despite their scale. Check out the ALIEN-inspired extendable mouth on the beast, just another unrealistic element of an already ludicrous movie.Jay Harrington actually seems to be a halfway decent actor. It's just a shame his lead character is such a lousy coward that the audience will be willing him to die. David Beecroft is the stereotypical captain, suicidal and failed, who redeems himself by acts of heroism. Then there's Carolyn Lowery as a marine biologist. We're introduced to Lowery as she plays strip poker with the crew, later on she is required by the plot to strip to her underwear on numerous occasions. No nudity, of course, this being a PG-13 film, but she's there solely to give the film some glamour content. Other token characters include crew members who suffer breakdowns and commit suicide or flee (such drama doesn't really belong in a supposedly cheap and cheerful B-movie) and the black guy who gets unsurprisingly killed.Other amusing incidents in the film include: bad guys taking over a cruise liner (easier than you think) just so they can rescue the terrorist from the sub; the octopus searching the sub for food without the sub actually flooding; and the numerous cliff-hanger situations that are resolved unrealistically and without any intelligence. OCTOPUS is a film where the writer treats the audience as idiots and makes little effort to tie everything together. Instead he is happy to throw in more clichés to wring out every little bit of drama and excitement. In fact the best bit of the film is the chase scene which opens it; ironically it has nothing to do with octopuses (octupii?) or mutated monsters. Check out the last shot, which shows the hero has escaped from an underwater explosion despite the fact we saw him crash the submersible into it seconds before and there being no possible way for him to be alive.

After catching an elusive terrorist, an agent escorting him on a submarine home meets up with a giant octopus living in the area and tries to help the crew fight off the creature and keep the terrorist under control.Overall this was quite a surprisingly decent if flawed creature feature. One of the things it does quite well is the actual amount of time and spent here on the subs' descent into the depths of the sea-floor, where this gets a lot right. The scenes of crew receiving the damage and impact on their stations makes for some rather realistic moments of the devastation of these scenes which is quite surprising for a movie of this kind, and along with the outside attacks on the hull that propel it down the ravine as the attacks continue to dismantle the sub and the surrounding hillsides. That leads into the rather impressive attacks on the crew which are quite fun as it culminates on the mad dash through the submerged corridors towards the escape pods which gets quite suspenseful at times. Likewise, this is nicely balanced by great parts as the opening is rather fun spy-action chase that features some nice stunt-work as well as the explosions, while the finale goes for the big spectacle of the octopus attacking the cruise-ship that is a lot of fun seeing it attack the passengers. Beyond these factors, there's a few small flaws with this one in its pretty lousy set-up here. The need for the crew to transport him is so flimsy it makes little sense to happen in the real world and worse off doesn't even have any motivation here as surely a real-world force would come with extra guards and assurances against the actual escape rather than the one lone agent as happens here. Likewise, the film's pace is really off in by doing the brief spy- action at the beginning, dragging out the crew's mission and getting acclimated before going over to shots of the terrorists on-board the ship which doesn't make sense in the film at all before going through the rather fun attacks here, and that really leads to a confusing, disjointed pace. Other than the decent-but-obvious CGI, it's all that really hurts this one.Rated PG-13: Language and Violence.

Do you remember the time in the 1970s when they first started showing Ray Harryhusen's monster movies on the 3 channels of terrestrial TV? Those wonderful days when stop animation was the very pinnacle special effects. That is when I cut my teeth with classics like Gorgo, 20,000,000 miles to earth, Godzilla etc. Alright only one of them was stop animation and the other two were guys in rubber suits but hell they were fun!! So I went to the post office the other day and found 6 nu image movies containing all the classic schlock horror movies. So I thought this is the perfect time to have a horror monster retrospective. I looked and thought what will be the best of them Crocodile by Tobe Hooper can back the thought. I watched that a couple of months back so I thought Octopus. Why not it was fun in 200000 leagues under the see, okay that was squid but it is basically it is the same creature.This is a feeble excuse for a monster movie. The movie starts with the prologue about the Cuban missile crisis, a Russian sub that looks extremely modern gets sunk by an American sub. The Russian sub is carrying chemical nasties to use against the American. They are spilt out into the sea and we know what toxic chemicals make…..Monsters! So we know where it came from, just do not put any in your coffee as you might turn into a monster. At least that would be a novel plot.Then it is the present day and two CIA agents are on the trail of a nasty bomber, in Bulgaria, why Bulgaria I wondered and then it I settled on an idea because it is cheap. So our intrepid band are on the trail of the bomber and after one of them dies in very predicable circumstances. The second one captures the bomber and he is a hero for a nano-second before being asked to baby sit the bomber back to the USA. So the sub goes through the Bermuda triangle (or some other cursed area) and the octopus attacks.They authors of the screenplay obviously wanted to make more than just a monster movie and this is the films undoing. If they had called it from Russia with Octopus love it might have been nearer to the plot ideas. There is a really silly cold war drama with a monster movie plot mixed in and it just does not work. There are loads of holes in the plot. They can talk under water and hear people scream. The integrity of the sub is compromised and it is 1000 metres down and it does not implode, now that is just plain daft. Also they manage to survive a nuclear explosion from a 100 metres away. The monster is great and sticks it tentacles in wherever they are not wanted. Unfortunately you just do not see it enough of it. The acting for the most part is awful, with people over reacting so much as to make their performances laughable.Thankfully it has quite a fun ending as the naughty huge octopus decides it wants to have some more lunch and attacks a cruise liner. I recommend this movie for masochists and insomniacs everywhere. Well what do you expect for 50p? The movie is presented in bog standard 4:3 with a trailer as its extras. With a movie this bad you take it as a blessing that there is no audio commentary.

The production is pretty good with this movie. They could have made it into a solid B movie if the dialog wasn't so bad. The one who wrote the script should be shot. The acting wasn't so great either but not sure if this is a side effect of crappy scripting. The actors themselves seemed decent enough, except for the Roy character who constantly over acted the scenes.Special effects were also acceptable for a movie of this type, so they shot themselves in the foot somehow and made this into less of a movie than it could have been.This movie could have been better if they took out all the silly over acting, and put in better dialogs.