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Rating: 1 out of 5
When you think of the word leviathan, what do you think of? If you answered, a giant ass sea serpent that destroy everything in their path and terrifying, then most people would agree with you. If you played the game Subnautica, then you know what I am talking about. The freakin Reaper, Ghost and Sea Emperor Leviathans are terrifying. The Reaper Leviathan alone almost made me shit myself when I first encountered it.
While watching PlutoTV, a film called Leviathan came on. I tuned in for about a few minutes and I became intrigued because it was a person walking on the sea floor while something seemed to attack the person. I stopped watching because I wanted to watch the film from the beginning. I looked it up on YouTube and low and behold it was there. The excitement was high until I watched this film and the disappointment I felt was world shattering. This film was a piece of shit that was a rip-off of The Thing and probably other movies.
Let me lay it down for you. In the future, an undersea team is hired by an intercontinental corporation called Tri-Oceanic Corp for a 90-day mining mission on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Miss Martin (Foster), the foine and piercing blue eyes CEO, hires Steven Beck (Weller), a geologist, to command the mission. Beck leads an eight-person team that consists of Dr. Glen ‘Doc’ Thompson (Crenna) the local physician; the beautiful and highly in shape Elizabeth ‘Willie’ Williams (Pays), a female miner; Buzz ‘Sixpack’ Parrish (Stern) a tough as nails miner; Justin Jones (Hudson) the cool black miner; Tony ‘DeJesus’ Rodero (Carmine) a Rico suave miner and mechanic; the lovely Bridget Bowman (Eilbacher) a computer expert; and G.P. Cobb (Elizondo) a maintenance man.
While outside their big ass undersea rig in a pressure suit during a routine drilling, Sixpack falls into a ravine and discovers a wrecked cargo ship. Sixpack believes he finally found some treasure. Since he didn’t respond, Williams rolls up in her pressure suit and sees dude happy as hell. While watching through William’s camera feed, they see that it is a Russian ship called “Leviathan” DAMN IT!! I wanted a big ass sea creature monster. Even though the ship is wrecked, the records show that the ship is on active duty even though it has a big ass hole on the side of it.
Williams and Sixpack bring back a safe. The crew open the safe and find several records and recordings from the captain along with a flask of vodka that Sixpack hides since there is no alcohol allowed in the underwater facility. Bowman knows that Sixpack has some alcohol and persuades him to share it. At this point, the pair doing realize that they done fucked up. After the pair drink and celebrate their alcohol, the next day, they become sick. Doc checks out Sixpack who has strange liaisons. In eight hours, dude is dead. Sixpack’s dead body begins to mutate while Bowman starts losing her hair and decides to unalive herself. While Doc and Beck have the crew load up the bodies in body bags, one begins to move. The crew try to open a bag, and a huge ass monster pops out. Now shit has become real, and Beck must figure out how to handle this new situation.
The whole film after the botched dumping scene tries to play out like the Thing. You wonder who might be infected and where the monster might be. When DeJesus is attacked by one of the tentacles of the monsters, it looks like a giant caterpillar, and it is not scary at all. It is honestly hilarious to look at. The Thing would look at this film and go, “What the hell is this?” There were zero suspense and the paranoia that made Aliens and The Thing great, this film failed at. The aspect of an underwater facility I liked but I think a big ass monster would’ve been better not the government made some genetic altering thing that killed a crew and now makes people mutate into one monstrous being that can destroy humanity. Don’t get me started on the two monsters attacking at the end and the Doc being infused.
The whole movie was all over the place and the special effects or whatever you want to call it looked awful. I don’t want to keep comparing this film with The Thing but when you try to copy and paste that film, you better be ready to be criticized. The look and feel of the creatures were off and they looked like second made creatures from a B-movie. Towards the end, the creature looked some giant ass rat creature. I’m telling you, a ferocious sea monster would’ve been twenty times better.
How the hell does the black man get killed at the end. Black people really don’t survive many or any horror films. Ernie Hudson makes it all the way to the end and boom; dude gets killed in the water. What the hell man. You didn’t see how Doc died. All you see was his stretched-out face infused in a monster. Damn! I can’t stand this film.
The cast tried their best to make this film enjoyable. Peter Weller and Amanda Pays were the highlights as they kept the film going. Honestly, I didn’t have much invested in the cast besides the two main characters. Everyone was in the film for about 20-30 minutes and then boom, they started dying. It was hard to care about any of them. Something was missing.
Leviathan is one of those films that you might like but probably won’t. If this film had a giant ass sea creature attacking a facility, this movie would’ve been a lot better. It tried to take The Thing route and failed miserably. The cast was decent but after a while, you only care and focus on two characters and could care less if any of the others lived or died. Skip this film and watch The Thing instead.
