I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Was hoping this would be better than most horror movies, but no, just the same old tired recipe of brainless scientifc folks growing things in a testube in an uncontrolled manner with their backs turned, a truly desperate need for 100 watt light bulbs, unbelievably bad script, bad monsters, excessive screetchy violin music and pathetic / annoying characters! Surely there must be a Hollywood director or producer somewhere who can come up with something better than this drivel. As a sci-fi, forget it. 2 hours of my life I'll never get back!

I remember to see this in 1997 in video rental and like it a lot,The movie is extremely entertainment,great special effects (even now look awesome),great cast, and of course a great director.One of the things that i like it is that the movie don't spend time looking for explanations of where the monsters come from o why is a monster,The movie is about to get out of there alive.That's why the movie works very well because is not spend time in stupid things,like love story or background of the characters.The cast is good:Tom sizemore like always a great actor,Penelope ann miller beautiful and very convincing actress.But of course the one who steal the movie is the monster.Master of special effects Stan Winston (R.I.P.)make another great work give us a very incredible monster.See it don't ask questions! you wont be disappointment.You have my word.

A massive, mutated, hybrid monster with a taste for human brains is on the rampage in Chicago's Museum of Natural History, and with the guests at a fancy gala evening trapped inside the building, there's no shortage of juicy grey matter for the creature to feast upon. Tough cop Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore) and beautiful evolutionary biologist Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) risk their thalami and hypothalami to do battle with the beast.The Relic is a formulaic monster-on-the-loose movie full of stereotypical characters, predictable plot developments, and scientific gobbledygook (the exposition might have made sense in the novel, but it is rather sketchy here), but despite the over familiarity of the material, the film still has enough going for it to make it a blast for avid creature feature fans. Peter Hyams handles the direction in his usual technically proficient manner, making good use of his creepy setting (some reviewers complain that the film is poorly lit, but I had no problem with that), delivering plenty of atmosphere, tension, excitement, and well staged scares along the way. Top notch effects also add immensely to the overall enjoyment factor: designed by Stan Winston, the creature is an impressive creation brought to life with practical models and limited use of CGI (which still holds up pretty well), and, once the film kicks into top gear, the gore is graphic and frequent, not a lot of time going by without someone having their head ripped from their body. It might not be all that sophisticated, but it sure is fun.

After a strange rash of deaths in a museum, a Chicago detective investigating the crimes and a doctor on the staff learn a smuggled, mutated lizard from South America is the culprit and must stop it before the museum's charity event draws the creature closer.Overall, there's enough here to make this worthwhile. One of the best is the rather intriguing ability where this one tends to feature a bit more suspense in its attacks than expected. There are several quite good sequences, from the killing of the security guard inside a urinal, a strong scene in the basement of the museum where it gets tracked by officers investigating the disappearances and an utterly thrilling stalking scene where the creature takes out the guard dogs and their trainers out searching for it. As well, once it gets shown to the others this one becomes a fantastic mixture of action and suspense with the fantastic final half where the creature gets loose within the museum filled with guests for the ball. The initial dead body appearing at the exhibit starts off the great panic of the group fleeing over each other destroying the exhibits while the creature attacks the guards which seal everyone else inside leads this one into the utterly fun series of action-packed encounters. Letting the creature run wild against the trapped guests as well as the rescue attempts by the firefighters to break in and free everyone all occurring at the same time really gives this some fun with several attacks being real stand-out affairs here where the creature goes through the remaining survivors or going through a flooded sewer tracking the creature that works due to the atmosphere of the dark, damp sewer that manages to set up the explosive finale in here which they manage to deal with the creature in a fun, explosive manner. While in overall size and appearance the beast is a little problematic, the fact that it's still created in a great manner is a nice point about it and when we finally see the beast, he looks impressive and is completely realistic. The effects do look good with all the plentiful gore on display, both in quality and quantity beyond numerous limbs being ripped off, a series of nasty scratches and the decapitations. The fact that the scenes look really good due to the high-quality effects in the prosthetics and the creature itself has a well-rounded base to provide its great qualities on. While these here make for a rather decent entry, there are a few flaws here. The biggest issue with this one is that it does have a bit of a logic problem in most regards, from the seemingly important like the creatures' origins and the science behind it to the trivial matters about how a ship without any people driving it manages to go from South America up through the Great Lakes into a Chicago harbor, these are quite detrimental and enough to knock it considerably. Alongside this factor, this one also suffers from some really lame early CGI for the creature which stands out quite obviously in its scenes here. It's still really good, but it's got a pretty big flaw to hold it down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and minor drug use.