Following a rash of disappearances around town, residents living on Lake Superior find the cause to be the Loch Ness monster and join forces with a hunter tracking the creature before it eats through the residents.
Overall this was a rather enjoyable and exciting creature feature. One of the better aspects to this one is the fact that there's the usual high amount of action scenes found here that bring about a rather enjoyable pace here as scenes where the creature attacks a cameraman in a dock or the ambush at the house along the lake that really highlights this factor quite well. They're all based on those shorter scenes that get by on the supposed sense of awe at the creature in such a terrifying situation which makes the longer scenes all the more enjoyable by comparison. There's plenty of big exciting action here that begins with the opening attack on the research party which sets the tone for this one quite early on as it takes out the team throughout their campsite, and that kind of action is weaved through the other big scenes. The attacks on the group along in the jungle are quite fun with the combination of sneak attacks used to great suspenseful effect while showing the action of the chase along the beach as well as the running around trying to find everyone, and a second scene during the day where the evasion of the babies occurs in the same area as the mother the night before so there's an added element of the infants here to really boost matters. Truthfully, the film's biggest set-piece is the final encounter at the lair which gets in some tense moments from the rescue mission, a couple of gory kills and a slew of exciting action scenes of both the multitude of creatures as well as the attempts to escape away from it. All of these varied action scenes combine with the plentiful gore and rather impressive creature design here that gives this one the good parts to overcome the film's few flaws which start with the main premise. The fact of such a location-challenged beast appearing in a place so far away with without effectively answering it doesn't make a lot of sense which such a simple throwaway line really could've done wonders for that. Likewise, the only other part here that doesn't work is the usually typical CGI on display, being quite badly animated that really looks or moves realistically. There are what really hold this down.
Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.
Overall this was a rather enjoyable and exciting creature feature. One of the better aspects to this one is the fact that there's the usual high amount of action scenes found here that bring about a rather enjoyable pace here as scenes where the creature attacks a cameraman in a dock or the ambush at the house along the lake that really highlights this factor quite well. They're all based on those shorter scenes that get by on the supposed sense of awe at the creature in such a terrifying situation which makes the longer scenes all the more enjoyable by comparison. There's plenty of big exciting action here that begins with the opening attack on the research party which sets the tone for this one quite early on as it takes out the team throughout their campsite, and that kind of action is weaved through the other big scenes. The attacks on the group along in the jungle are quite fun with the combination of sneak attacks used to great suspenseful effect while showing the action of the chase along the beach as well as the running around trying to find everyone, and a second scene during the day where the evasion of the babies occurs in the same area as the mother the night before so there's an added element of the infants here to really boost matters. Truthfully, the film's biggest set-piece is the final encounter at the lair which gets in some tense moments from the rescue mission, a couple of gory kills and a slew of exciting action scenes of both the multitude of creatures as well as the attempts to escape away from it. All of these varied action scenes combine with the plentiful gore and rather impressive creature design here that gives this one the good parts to overcome the film's few flaws which start with the main premise. The fact of such a location-challenged beast appearing in a place so far away with without effectively answering it doesn't make a lot of sense which such a simple throwaway line really could've done wonders for that. Likewise, the only other part here that doesn't work is the usually typical CGI on display, being quite badly animated that really looks or moves realistically. There are what really hold this down.
Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.