Monday, January 8, 2001

Review – Octopus

Wow. Could they have crammed a couple more subplots in here someplace? We’ve got a giant monster, international intrigue, high-stakes terrorism, a nuclear sub, and around a dozen other distractions going on at once. The result appears to be a bargain basement rehash of Deep Rising with a lot of crap grafted onto it just to make it last longer. Under other circumstances, a submarine and a sea monster would be more than enough to keep me happy for the whole movie (probably due at least in part to my childhood love of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), but here the script is so terrible that it wears out the welcome I was willing to grant this picture. See if desperate

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