Attack of the Sabretooth

I remember watching ATTACK when it first came out and caught it again recently. The sci fi channel has run worse, but not by much. A shameless ripoff of Jurassic Park, ATTACK substitutes sabertooth cats for dinosaurs. And they are on the loose, devouring as many extras as possible. The CGI is pretty bad, and closeups of prosthetic cat heads are laughable. We get some gore, which helps a little. Wait until you see how the mad scientist who started this whole mess gets it. Other than Robert Carradine, who has very little to do, the cast is unknown. Apparently this was shot in Fiji. Nice work if you can get it. Reminds me of all those low-budget monster STVs that were popular in the 80s and 90s.

Take "Jurassic park" and remove the acting ability of the cast, shrink the special effects budget to about 5 dollars, and take out any interesting parts of the plot and you have "Attack of the Sabretooth".

Still I did enjoy this amusing "B" movie and i based my rating on other movies in this gutter league.

The acting ranged from weak: the cast of teens, to pretty good : the "maintenance man", to over the top: the park owner and his ex brother in law.

The CGI is occasionally cool.

The gore is fun and a few of the death scenes fairly imaginative.

If you are a fan of garbage gore B movies this one might be worth a look for you.

Where to begin? the special effects should be named special defects, When the director shouted "action" I guess he also indicated to the actors to carry out the worst performance they could think of. Maybe he was annoyed with the producers and wanted to make sure that they would not recover a single cent out of their investment and that the work would be a case study of how not to make movie. Or maybe he hated art school and wanted to be an accountant but his family did not let him.

The only thing that is sure that whoever employs him in the future is because its in love with him (so its objectivity jumped through the window) or because he changed its name and deleted all past previous references.

There's not a whole lot to be said about 'Attack of the Sabretooth.' The most basic plot synopsis immediately informs that it wants to cash in on the popularity of 'Jurassic Park.' Unlikely wildlife attractions at a theme park get loose and attack characters that have names of one sort or another, and who are present at the park for one reason or another. This particular rendition of the narrative concept gives us no motive to learn about or try to remember who these characters are, so we don't.

Do the titular sabretooth tigers look convincing? Not really. You could do worse. But then, their appearance seems so half-hearted, so jarringly distinct from the scenery around them, that one has to imagine that the animators were instructed to do the bare minimum. So, job well done, I guess.

The most notable and memorable thing about the movie is the final death scene. Just as the climax of 'Jurassic Park' takes place in its visitor center, seeing the ruin of the skeletons on display, so is 'Attack of the Sabretooth' capped off with the chief building's kingly decor tumbling down. Except in this case, the scene has the appearance of having been animated on a Nintendo 64, as it wouldn't look out of place in a Super Mario game on that system.

'Attack of the sabretooth' is what happens when a film is green-lighted with no budget. The actors don't seem to be trying a great deal; I'm reminded of my own award-worthy performance in a short that some friends and I made in college. The animators and everyone else involved in the production clearly did their job, as directed, with what they had to work with. And that's a wrap.

None of this is to say that 'Attack of the sabretooth' isn't entertaining, as long as you know exactly what you're getting into. But one view will be more than enough for even the most excitable fan of B-movies.

i don't think that this movie is quite as bad as most of the people say on here, yeah the acting ain't the greatest, and the plot is stretched to say the least, but what do you honestly expect when you rip off Jurassic Park .. come on people.. this time it's the dreaded Sabre Tooth Tiger there are 3 total in the movie,, and one is just plain ugly and deformed, the kids in this movie are on a scavenger hunt, and disable the security system, leaving pandora's box wide open for the large feline species to get out of their habitat. I really had a laugh when the first guy messed up and chased his piece of porno mag into the secured gate area, upon trying to fetch it he winds up as the main course for one of the cats, overall i wish people wouldn't bash this , it wasn't intended to be a blockbuster,, it was on sci-fi late at night . so folks what does that tell you..