Leviathan

Razortooth is one of those cgi packed creature features you'll frequently see on the Scyfy channel, and as expected is pretty damn dire.

It tells the story of a genetically altered giant eel that has broken loose of it's confines and is on a killing spree in deep south america.

Its victims including boy scouts, rednecks, escaped convicts and more rednecks. As you'd imagine the cgi is pretty poor and the creators crammed every concievable cliche into the movie.

It comes down to the local animal control guy and his ex wife sherriff to save the day and did I mention it's pretty damn dire?

Hollywood star Josh Gad can be seen here, younger, wider and looking very out of place considering how far he has come since 2007.

If you like the Scyfy creature feature tosh then this may well be for you.

The Good:

Neat looking beastie

The Bad:

Stock audio

Usual cliches

Ending was dumb

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

If Josh Gad wants to Tipp-Ex this off his resume I'd happily turn a blind eye

People who prefer animals than people are ironically my kind of people

I'd genuinely like to know why every movie of this ilk has no consistency in regards to the creatures size

If Dustin Diamond and Justin Timberlake had a baby you'd have that convict

After a rash of disappearances, a wildlife expert and the local sheriff team up with a group of residents to combat the gigantic, mutated eel running loose through the local swamplands before it eats the whole town.

This turned out to be quite the flawed if still slightly enjoyable creature feature. There's some rather enjoyable moments here, most of which comes from the fact that the creature is clearly out and rampaging around quite early so there's plenty of action scenes within this. From the opening attack on the search party in the swamps to the brief attack scenes around town as it attacks the locals to the rather cheesy finale where it seemingly keeps coming back despite several attempts to fully contain and kill it while the creature is chasing after them for even more action-packed sequences, so this one dos manage to contain some rather impressive and fun moments that allow for a pretty enjoyable pace here as these are spread liberally enough throughout the film to avoid any kind of prolonged boredom. Along with plenty of action is plenty of exciting kills here which are based on the creature's rather fun tactic of simply going for the kill every time out so it's ravenous behavior makes for a rather gory and blood-soaked time with plenty of limbs being gnawed off, bodies ripped apart, bites and much more here which make for a really good time. These are enough to hold it aloft over it's few minor flaws, most notably the utterly ridiculous and abysmal CGI rampant throughout here. Not only is this patently unimpressive and obvious in it's fake-ness, the fact that it also manages to employ other big giveaways to it's source is found throughout here including the creature randomly appearing out of nowhere simply because the attack calls for it, changing size and dimensions frequently and barely interacting with the outside world around it so there's never any doubt this pixelated, cheesy-looking beast is anything but realistic. Likewise, the other big flaw here is the obvious use of character-padding to max out a storyline that really shouldn't yield a movie this long so there's a lot of excess story lines drummed up simply to provide more characters for it to kill off which really shouldn't be so as they simply scream out in their attempt to pad out the running time. These are somewhat detrimental to this but not enough to really lower it.

My family and I love bad horror films. We watch them every Saturday night. Tonight, we watched this "movie." Normally you can at least count on pretty girls in these flicks, but not here. Every woman in this movie is god awful ugly. The acting is terrible, the plot dumb, but the absolute best part is that every gun shown in the film is a bb or pellet gun. I thought I was going to die laughing when I first realized this and it made every scene with a gun just that much funnier. I often wonder if the people in these films know that they are making crap. I just can't imagine anybody gets excited about adding Razortooth to their resume. This movie pushed even our love of bad movies to the limit. It may just be one of the worst movies ever made.

My expectations for this movie were extremely low (which is why it achieved a 3 and not lower). It is a typical low budget "creature feature.". It is campy and stupid to the point of causing me to shake my head in wonder why am I watching this? The acting is atrocious. The characters are so over stereotyped to not be believable. The humor is childish and comes across forced. The CGI is downright awful. The other special effects are just as terrible. But, given the type of movie it is, it is in par with most of the low budget creature features. So, if you like bad acting, bad scripts and lousy CGI, this movie is for you. Otherwise, give it a solid pass it by.

Because it's pretty clear that Skiffy Channel employees are here trying to raise it's profile by writing smarmy reviews.

This movie has the same plot as nearly every other Skiffy Channel movie. (This was on the Skiffy Channel, right?) A mutated/alien/strange creature rendered by basement-nerd CGI gets loose in a rural community, starts picking off the locals one by one.

Somewhere, I hear Skiffy channel execs having a staff meeting. "Okay, we've done snakes to death. People are bored with snakes. What else do we got?"

"How about giant eels, sir?"

"Aren't those just like snakes?"

"Uh, no, they're fish."

"Well, don't they only live in the water?"

"We'll say they can go on dry land, too. Then have them pick off a collection of bad southern stereotypes, since it's the last accepted bigotry in America."

Bottom line, for all you aspiring writers. An interesting monster might be the hook, but you have to care about the characters. We get a lot of characters, nearly all of whom become eel chow, and you don't feel a bit of empathy for any of them.

Avoid this movie. I wish I had... watching bad movies so you don't have to.