Octopus 2: River of Fear

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

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.

At least you get to see the star monster a little more often in this sequel than the first time out. Still not enough creature screen time though. The film instead spends a lot of time with the "nobody believes the hero when he says there's a monster" bit.

A big city gets it again: the creature visits New York to watch the July 4 fireworks extravaganza. He takes up residence in the river, and occasionally attacks. Acting isn't really bad; for example, the children on the bus really do seem frightened. The leads make the most of the script they're given. Some of the attacks are played silly and with indifference; it's not clear if you're supposed to care about characters or not. The set-up for the final attack takes way too long (with some dumb stuff hammered in), and then you see more of a fireworks display rather than monster action.

Routine creature feature; good enough if you have nothing else to do.

As far as B sci-fi are concerned, this is a solid middle of the road movie. I've watched other craps like the Carnosaur series, and the likes of the Dog Soldier where I have no idea why it gets a high score. Many of these so called sci-fi movies are rip offs in that they state certain monster will appear, but when you see it, the total appearance time of the monster is less than a minute or two, and other 90 minutes is a filler where soldiers or who ever is acting scared and shouting macho BS. Many of them happens in such a dark setting that you can hardly see any details like AVP 2.

Compared to these, Octopus 2 has solid performance both from the actors and the octopus. There's a story that's believable, and the actions are not bad either.

There are other bad movies out there that's lot worse, and after seeing sci-fi movies for years, this is a solid middle of the road piece.