Captivating movie !

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

BEHEMOTH is a monster flick let down by its own shortcomings in terms of budget and originality. Yes, it's another SyFy Channel production, filmed on the cheap in Canada, that has flashes of decency amid an overwhelming number of strictly middling to poor moments.The storyline sees strange stirrings beneath the earth and mysterious levels of carbon dioxide rising from the crust. A team of investigators are soon on the case, as is a crazy old man who thinks that some mythical beastie is responsible. Inevitably it turns out that the old guy is right, and the heroes find themselves up against a massive monster from days gone by with plans to destroy the world.So far so ordinary, but the surprising thing here is that the CGI effects are actually decent; far better than in other SyFy movies or the likes of DRAGON WARS. That monster looks great, especially when straddling the mountain top! I wish it had played a greater part on screen, but it was still a welcome sight. Sadly the rest of the production is less impressive, with boring characters and indifferent acting; the only one who makes an effort is William B. Davis, he of THE X-FILES fame. There's far too much hiking and chatting and not enough monster action for my liking, leaving this a disappointment regardless.

In the small Ascension, the constructor Thomas Walsh (Ed Quinn) is working with his team at the Mount Lincoln. Out of the blue, there are tremors and the branch of the tree fall over Thomas' employee and breaks his leg. He brings his truck and finds the man dead. He brings the man to the town and finds that his sister Grace Walsh (Cindy Busby) plans to camp at the mountain with her sweetheart Jerrod Dietrich (James Kirk) while their lunatic father William Walsh (William B. Davis) defends the theory that an ancient being is near to be released on Earth and destruct the planet.Meanwhile, the geologist Emily Allington (Pascale Hutton) returns to her hometown Ascension to investigate the tremors. The army representative Jack Murray (Ty Olsson) also comes to Ascension to search a mysterious wallet that was lost on the mountain. Soon the dwellers of Ascension discover the secret of the tremors."Behemoth" is a ridiculous low-budget movie with a messy and lame story about a creature that lives in a mountain. The subplot of Thomas and his former girlfriend Emily in the mountain is maybe the only one reasonable despite of the corny conclusion. The subplot of Jack is pathetic since if the army needed the wallet to destroy the monster, there should be at least a troop with helicopters and GPS seeking the wallet and not only one man. Further, the only weapon was probably a prototype since it was the unique means capable to defend the planet. The subplot of the stubborn Grace and her boyfriend is absolutely silly. But the worst is the subplot of Professor William Walsh is laughable. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Criatura da Montanha" ("The Creature of the Mountain")

I just watched the movie on a Sunday evening and i am satisfied with it. Because it was exactly what i had expected and what it was made for. A nice entertaining time killer when you have nothing better to do at Sunday evening.The acting was plausible and realistic to enjoy the movie and the cgi effects where also like expected. They would have looked cheap in a high budget movie of course, but for such a SciFi channel movie good enough. The monster itself was very well animated.I reed a few comments about how that feminists may not like the movie because the female characters did nothing else then scream and being helpless. Well, that is just what the most women do in emergency situations. They do not pull out two guns and save the world, like it is very popular in lots of movies at the moment. They mostly scream, do not know what to do and hope that the men saves the situation. So from that point of view the movie was much more realistic then the most comparable movies ;).

Behemoth is set in the small US town of Ascenion where several unexplained Earth tremors have caught the attention of the Government who send in a team of geologists to investigate & former resident & seismologist Emily Allington (Pascale Hutton) also decides to check out the unusual phenomenon which she believes may be connected to a dormant Volcano. However the truth is far worse, a huge tentacled monster has awoken & as it moves underground is causing these tremors & huge amounts of destruction to property. In steps ex military man Thomas Walsh (Ed Quinn) who is hired by a Government agent to guide him to where the equipment of his ill fated colleagues is. Stranded in the isolated mountain terrain both Thomas & Emily stumble across each other & face a fight for survival with poisonous CO2 leaking everywhere & a giant monster on the rampage to deal with...This Canadian & American co-production was directed by David Hogan & is yet another terrible Sy-Fy Channel creature feature, really how many more of these turgid & throughly formulaic little films are we going to have to endure? There must be a market for them out there, I mean someone must be watching them, right? I think maybe because it's cheap television these things will continue to get made, & I know I'll be stupid & boneheaded enough to keep watching the damned things! When I first saw Behemoth listed in my TV guide as a giant monster film I thought it might have been a cheap remake of the rather good classic black and white monster film The Giant Behemoth (1959) but it isn't, no this is a boring creature feature with a supposed Eco message about us humans abusing the environment & mother nature striking back in the form of a giant monster. The script for Behemoth is very talky, the entire first half is vague exposition about something taking revenge on humanity for it's general behaviour & lots of people running around trying to sound serious about what's going on. None of this works, for a start it's relentlessly dull, the talk about the active Volcano goes nowhere, the ancient myth about monsters is too vague & again is never worked into the plot in any meaningful way. There is no explanation behind the events of Behemoth, whether the creature is some supernatural force or not is never indicated, the purpose of the Behemoth is also left unanswered & while the dialogue suggest that it is a worldwide phenomenon the Behemoth never attacks anything other than a small town. At that rate it would take it quite a while to destroy the entire world. Even though the IMDb plot synopsis indicates 'worldwide destruction' it never happens & is never even referenced. Then there's the US military guy, if the US Government & military are expecting the Behemoth why send just one guy & one rocket launcher in a suitcase? Why not send an entire army of soldiers all armed to the teeth with these weapons? The character's are poor, there's no emotional interest as I didn't care who lived or died & despite being so big & powerful the Behemoth only seems interested in just sitting on top of a Volcano & roaring. At just over 80 minutes Behemoth felt much longer as it plods along, all I can really remember about Behemoth are these two people running around a forest for an hour & not much else.The only credible aspect of Behemoth that saves it from getting a one star rating are the CGI computer effects which are surprisingly good. The actual Behemoth creature when fully revealed at the end is rather impressive it has to be said, OK it doesn't do anything other than just sort of sit on top of the Volcano & roar but it does look good considering the usual Sy-Fy Channel junk we see. Some of the other effects aren't so impressive, the disappearing house & crumbling rocks in particular look bad but the main star of the show the Behemoth is one of the better looking Sy-Fy Channel beasties. Even though a few people die there's no blood or gore here, like I said the Behemoth is underused & apart from sink a few houses doesn't really do anything of note.With a supposed budget of about $1,300,000 this was filmed in British Columbia in Canada with decent production values & nice enough mountain scenery. The acting is, as usual, forgettable with most of the cast phoning their performances in. The only cast member of note is William B. Davis who played the sinister cigarette smoking man in The X-Files (1993-2002).Behemoth is a boring mix of ecological thriller & giant monster creature feature that has some surprisingly good CGI but little else to recommend it. Bland character's, a plot cobbled together from various ideas & a lack of monster action kill it dead. Even if it's on television for free think twice about wasting your time.