The river of fear - Il fiume della paura

I liked this movie a lot better then part one until the ending. The acting while not great (remember this is a direct to video movie after all) is a hell of a lot better then the first flick. Furthermore the effects are much better. The Octopus is actually in this movie a lot as opposed to being a minor character in the first flick which dealt with a submarine crew escorting a terrorist back to the U.S.A. Plus the Octopus looks a lot better. While there is really bad CGI effects, most of the effects were utilized with a huge animatronic Octopus as well as various tentacle props giving the Octopus a more solid look rather then BAD painted effects from the first film. HOWEVER the massive Stock footage from part one kinda ruins it after a while, BUT the ending destroyed this movie entirely for me!! To massive amounts of footage of kids singing on a school bus, to a complete and shameless rip-off of the film DAYLIGHT to 15 minutes of kids being rescued from the bus, to a horrible actress pretending to be an old Jewish women to the Octopus getting completely blown to bits only to resurface completely unharmed moments later to 6 different stock footage shots of the Octopus finally blowing up at the end to me scratching my head in disbelief!!

I love monster movies; especially things from the sea. It's too bad that the people who make them have so little imagination. This is another "formula" mess, with far too much time spent on non-octopus business. We do get some lurid scenes of the octopus munching people, tentacles flying about; and the ornery thing generally being a proper monster. But the biggest, and most accurate, science fiction element in the film is that any living thing would purposely take up residence in the East River of New York City. They actually tried to explain that!!!

I kind of liked "Octopus II". The heroine was really cute. Its just that the plot, the editing, and characters in this cephalopod outing are fatally muddled. They had to use that old standby, the shaky camera, to make us dizzy so we couldn't see through the minimal special effects. Still, I managed to sit through it; and get a few of those magic quivers that sea monster movies do to me. There's just something about seafood run amok!

A word to all producers of octopus films. Octopi do not growl. And forget the formula. We've seen far too many special events gone wrong because the mayor wouldn't listen to the hero. Make it fast and furious. A little sex is okay; but get rid of all those neurotic characters and sub-plots. Focus on the tentacles; and put it in the ocean where it just might make sense.

The incredibly gratuitous use of stock footage (you see the same CGI footage of the mouth about a 15 times, and the three seconds 4th of July fireworks about 20...I kid you not) and cliches at the end of the film makes it amusing, along with a complete abuse of space and time as a takes about 6 hours to make it from somewhere in Manhattan to another to watch 4th of July fireworks and along the way passes city hall, and goes over several bridges qand finally through a tunnel (which, incidentally, is portrayed as being a conrete tube on the river bottom as opposed to buried beneath it). Maybe the driver was really bored or just incredibly lost. Definitely a "C" movie (do they go lower?) but going in forewarned, you can still get some chuckles out of it, especially if you know NYC at all.

This is awful. Really bad. Makes the original seem good. There is actually more (unconvincing) Octo in this one, but it never does anything interesting. And then they tag on some DAYLIGHT "inspired" disaster movie stuff at the end. Stay away. In Japan the video is known as OCTOPUS IN NEW YORK (it attacks Manhattan by the way, well actually it doesn't).

I hated the first movie is really boring and we only get see the Octopus at the end.

The plot Dead bodies are being found in the New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the harbor will be filled with boats for the 4th of July celebrations...

In this movie we get to see more of the Giant Octopus and Special effects for this movie are really good for it's time.

The acting is this movie not bad but not great too but okay and watch able.

The are some really cheese scenes to movie but if can get past that, You should enjoy the rest of movie.

5/10