Sabretooth

Still, it is much better than I anticipated, and a lot of fun to watch as it is pretty much a 1950s B-movie in plot and a 1970s eco-terror film in style. There isn't any letdown in action in this rather compact thriller, and not any moment was I bored. It's also nice to see David Keith use his considerable character-actor screen presence here, playing the part that would have gone to Patrick Wayne 25 years earlier, and doing it well. Everyone else is fairly adequate, though not at all outstanding, and perhaps it's because they're not supposed to upstage Keith and the creature. Though the creature effects are significantly lesser than what we now see from big studio productions, they are as good as many old-school animated or matte-effect creatures from 30, 40, and 50 yrs earlier. In the consideration of the time difference, this isn't much of a complement, but if this film can be enjoyed by a viewer on the level of such b-movies as, say, Monster that Challenged the World, it will be good entertainment.

I only watched this cuz' Josh Holloway ("Sawyer")from "Lost" is in it. Other posters' negative comments are right on & more entertaining than the movie was. The part about tranqualizing the tiger SO INACCURATE!!!The writer should've done research on this at the very least. It'd take an average tiger or black bear 15 min. to go down from a trank gun. This thing's size, if you were to dose safely, might take up to half hr. for it to go down all the way. This movie makes it immediate, and not only that, it wears off in 2 min. ??!?!?!? Plus, the fur just made me feel dirty. It looked as fakey,tangled,fuzzy & worn as a hard-as-sandbag moth-eaten, mildew infested stuffed animal "prize" you win at a carnival busting an impotent balloon w/ a dull dart.

Apparently I was supposed to be scared; however, I couldn't stop laughing long enough to manage it. The writers created characters whose motto seems to be "when in danger or in doubt; run in circles...scream and shout" and don't have a shred of common sense between them. Also the producers need to ask the CGI people for a refund...that was the sorriest looking special effect I've seen in a while. I realize that this is not a big-budget production, but with the level of technology available they could have done much better.

Cheaply made Sci-Fi channel time filler which makes both humans and sabretooth tigers look like nitwits.

David Keith and John Rhys-Davies are the only actors who you'll recognize, and for good reason. Everybody else look like they were grabbed from a middle school "Introduction to Drama" course, (which they all flunked). Even Davies struggles with the brainless greedy rich bozo cliché he is stuck with. How Keith kept a straight face amidst all this is anybody's guess.

Somewhere, some scientist who saw Jurassic Park performs genetic restoration experiments or something, thus reproducing the imposing Ice Age beast, big teeth and all. The experiments fail to make the CGI monster look real, or to do a believable level of acting (well, he fits right in with his co-stars in that department). Keith plays a big game hunter who tries to hunt the thing, while your stock group of screaming group of stereotyped teens (nerd, jock, tramp, sexy intelligent girl, oversexed dumbbell guy etc.) camp nearby and say stupid stuff before they take turns getting munched. The hilarious scene of an idiot trying to fistfight/stab the creature is classic.

Good for a laugh only.

Interesting premise, not so good effects. I think they should have used the guys who did the effects for the History Channels Prehistoric Mammals show. And, as usual, really stupid characters...the only one with two brain cells to rub together was the hunter. I kept cheering on the 'cat to kill them all. (Due to the long list of stupidity, I won't bother trying to list them)

Notice the set up for a sequel. "What's wrong? Never hear two cats mating?" Bet that puma was a female.