Big Legend (2018) User Reviews

Bigfoot

[siriusly1986 · 6/10 · 3 July 2018]

Low budget movie but rather done well. Acting was decent and revolved around the Bigfoot legend and on the angle that these things are not shy ape-like creatures and cuddly teddy bears but predators as was described by old Native American folklore. Kept me entertained well enough tonight.

Chief!

[tamarareddell-39321 · 5/10 · 22 August 2021]

It's ok chief, not fantastic chief but watchable chief. Nearly switched off chief, cause OMG chief... If he had said chief once more.

Started Off Well Then Turned To Poop.

[redrobin62-321-207311 · 4/10 · 4 August 2018]

Seriously. The movie had me hooked from the beginning. The scenery was gorgeous to the eyes, acting was fine, and the tension build was well executed.

But what happened to the hero? Whenever he saw Bigfoot he always turned and ran away WHILE HAVING HIS POWERFUL GUN OR RIFLE TRAINED ON HIM! Three times I ended up screaming at his stupidity. When he shot Bigfoot one, which obviously affected the monster, instead of shooting him again he opts to set a stupid fire which makes the monster run off. Ridiculous.

This movie aggravated me more than entertain me. And they have the nerve to be filming a sequel?! Give me strength.

Hey Chief!

[danielcereto · 3/10 · 25 March 2020]

Here we have the classic Bigfoot movie. Same old script and just some new beautiful nature shots. I only recommend this if you're in quarantine for a week and you do not have anything else to watch. Be ready to hear the word "chief" around 123 times during the whole movie. Not joking.

Chief???

[shailosweetkittycat · 3/10 · 24 February 2019]

OMG STOP SAYING "CHIEF!" Absolutely annoying, it is said at nauseum. Furthermore the guy doesnt take a clear shot at the beast in the most opportune times. Also, he shoots a propane tank and it doeant explode, instead he "ignites" it as if it were gasoline (liquid) all over the snow, 10 feet from the tank...Ridiculous! The acting was D acting.

Hey Chief.

[ammyrock · 1/10 · 10 March 2019]

I would re watch this just to count the amount of times the scripting disappointed me lol. One wouldn't constantly say "chief" in almost every sentence. The scripting is ridiculous lol. Acting is mediocre but I'll agree with others on here about it visually. Visually it's all right, but the lack of intelligence in the scripting was not enough for me to give any other stars. It's a huge importance to me along with at least some decent acting. All in all its just terrible.

Better than it should be

[Sawyer-4815162342 · 7/10 · 4 July 2018]

I wasn't expecting too much from this movie, but it ended up being better than than it should be. I was entertained from start to finish. For it's budget this film is extremely well done.

The monster scenes are done right, you mostly just get glimpses of the monster which seems like a good choice on the director's part. Sure, occasionally the characters make irrational decisions and some random coincidences occur but otherwise the plotting is tight. This movie ended up bring more fun than I thought it would be be and the people involved did a great job of making the most of their apparently modest budget.

Recommended to fans of bigfoot-esque, monster in the woods type of movies. (If you are someone who only enjoys movies with budgets of $300 million and higher you might want to skip this one.)

I've Seen Worse

[Foutainoflife · 5/10 · 8 March 2019]

This flick is about a man who takes his girlfriend into the woods for a camping trip. He proposes and she is snatched by bigfoot. He spends a year in a psych ward after the incident because saying bigfoot took your girl is, well, crazy. When he gets out he has to make a decision. Should he leave things as the are or should he find out what really happened? His choice is the latter.

Lower budgeted film. Not much of a plot or special effects going on. I thought the main character did a decent job with his role but this isn't a film that I'm likely to remember. It isn't awful but it isn't great.

Excellent film

[iakatat · 7/10 · 4 July 2018]

For a low budget bigfoot type movie I was pleasantly surprised. . Acting was good. Story dragged in a couple of spots, but overrall I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end.

Flannel shirts and orange blood

[perillomike · 2/10 · 18 May 2019]

If you love great scenery, watch a nature documentary. If you like bad dialogue, orange blood and beards than this is the movie for you. Also how dare you put Lances name in the credits only to have him show up for 30 seconds right before the movie ends, while delivering one of the cheesiest monologues ever.

Very solid film!

[jaredmfmusic · 8/10 · 5 July 2018]

Very well done and entertaining. Im sure with a bigger budget it could only get better. Seems like this film is a prequel to some kind of series- I'm excited to see what the series it!!

This a 6.7 from me, but I had to mark it 10 due to the unfair reviews.

[ABThomas · 5 July 2018]

Basically this is an easy watchable film for any film fan. The acting in the first 10 minutes, was good enough to be in any A list film. It had a fair few MINOR flaws, but not ONE of these ruined the film for me. I only had to suspend my belief a few times to really enjoy this movie For what it was. Solid 6.7 for me, worth a watch for true movie and bigfoot fans.

An endearing love story between a Chief and a hunter

[ronniedarko-02311 · 6/10 · 7 July 2022]

A visually stunning tale of two men who meet in the most unexpected way and end up creating a bond for all eternity. Chief was looking for a second chance at love and found it while hiking through the forest looking for answers. Then he comes across the lonely hunter man in the woods, and the chemistry is like a spontaneous combustion. They share many of laughs and embraces by the campfires. Chief realizes that everything happens for a reason. And anything goes when you are deep in the darkened forests.

Rambo vs. Bigfoot

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 20 July 2018]

The film unites some "B" movie favorites in cameo roles as Tyler (Kevin Makely) hunts Bigfoot who ate his fiancee. Tyler is former special services. The film sets up for a sequel to be called "The Monster Chronicles" shades of Darren McGavin.

Special effects not great. Hopefully the scripts get better. This one was pretty shallow.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. No cabin in the woods. No annoying teens. No final girl. No slut character.

Don't trust any review over 1 star!

[greg-29535 · 1/10 · 13 February 2019]

All positive reviews must be from friends or family of the cast/crew. This was a real stinker - boring, goofy, beyond stupid, with really really bad fight scenes at the end. Looked like my 8 year old shot it on his phone. Seemed to have been written by a child as well.....

As if two entirely different writers?

[pcurrey69 · 5/10 · 31 July 2018]

This is a rather odd movie to review and I review very few. It looks somewhat low budget but started out good (if overlook the girlfriend at the beginning). It was easy to watch, didn't have "well THAT'S stupid!" other than questioning a 'flashlight' and was going along good. Then, towards the latter half of the movie, it gave me (and my GF watching with me) flashbacks to Rambo I & II, Predator, Commando, etc. and there were some blatant errors that anyone knowing hunting/military background would just NOT do! Yes, you'll see it done! No idea if this is a pilot for a show or just for another movie, but with Lance H in it, I'd watch it/them when released since far from ruined but the errors (that can tick off people with a hunting background or even those with just common sense) really knocked my rating down to give it a 5/10

Uncovering the truth

[TheLittleSongbird · 5/10 · 11 September 2018]

Bigfoot/Sasquatch films have generally not fared well, the worst of them being awful. That made me feel apprehensive somewhat and that the rating was low was no less promising. Was also filled with hope at the same time, with some of the reviews being decent, with passionate defence and passionate dislike, and Lance Henriksen and Adrienne Barbeau have done dependable work throughout their careers.

While 'Big Legend' was far from perfect and not particularly a good film let alone great, it is for me one of the better and more watchable bigfoot/sasquatch films out there. That is not by a marginal degree, the degree is quite significant and a very easy, not bold statement for me to make, having as said above being underwhelmed by a good deal of them. Not just that, 'Big Legend' turned out to be one of my better recent low-budget viewings.

Surprisingly, 'Big Legend' is not too bad visually, quite good on the whole actually. The scenery is atmospheric and easy on the eye and the photography is remarkably slick and the editing cohesive. The sound isn't too obvious and is not over-bearing, providing haunting moments. The direction is assured in the first half.

Acting came off to me as better than average, with Henriksen and Barbeau coming off reliably. Didn't find the characters anywhere near as bland and annoying as most other low-budget recent viewings. There is tension, suspense and creepiness and it is not a dull film, found the first half quite engaging and not too predictable.

It is a shame that the latter stages of 'Big Legend' isn't near as good. The tension and suspense does dissipate, it isn't as taut and some of it is ridiculous beyond belief and heavy in predictability with some of the decision-making becoming silly. The ending is anti-climactic and abrupt, another one of those indicating a sequel, a type of ending that has become increasingly lazy the more times it's used.

The effects are less than special, laughable at worst, the direction seemed to lose interest and direction and the dialogue can too often be cheesy and stilted, apparent even in the first half.

Overall, watchable if very uneven. 5/10 Bethany Cox

Bring on Monster Chronicles

[the_doofy · 6/10 · 10 August 2018]

The opening for me was pretty powerful. The viewer gets a sense of how close the bond is between the couple. Usually this sort of thing is done w/ a shallow sex scene-Big Legend communicates it in a more meaningful manner.

Cinematography was good, acting was done well. The hand to hand fight scenes were not that believable. Injury special effects were realistic. The gun sounds were lame. The Squatch howls sounded ferocious. I felt Squatch would of done more damage from a distance instead of getting in for some mano a mano.

All in all a 'clean' Squatch horror flick that I enjoyed and more importantly, my wife did not mind watching with me.

I really wanted to like it.

[koudielolz · 3/10 · 5 April 2020]

!!Warning spoilers!!

This movie is about an ex army ranger that goes on a camping trip to propose to his girlfriend. But at night she is taken by a monster and a year later the man is released from a psych ward and decides to revisit the same woods to find the answers to what exactly attacked them that night.

So I am a fan of cheesy monster movies and animal movies such as Anaconda and Lake Placid and Abominable. I don't judge too harshly on low budget movies because when you have a low budget you gotta work with what you have. As long as there is decent writing, has it has something fresh and interesting to offer, and if decent decisions are made, then I'm usually pretty happy. Low budget does NOT have to mean low quality in story telling.

Now with Big Legend there are a few decent things about it, but also a lot of just terrible things about it as well.

Positives: -The movie has a beautiful setting. The forest they chose to film in is absolutely stunning and is very nice to look at throughout the film. The greenery is practically neon and it reminds me of the forests I grew up near.

• The acting, at least in the first 1/3 is pretty decent. But it does go down hill the longer the movie goes on. And I mean DOWN HILL.

• The movie uses practical effects which is always nice. The effects are low budget for sure but not terrible. I've seen way worse in other movies.

• the movie has a couple decent jump scares.

• the monster is overall creepy looking though it is obvious it's a guy in a suit, BUT they still pull it off decently when the full monster and it's face is revealed. It's low budget but I buy it.

Negatives:

• like I've mentioned before, the acting in the second half or so of the movie just gets awful, almost unbearable. The hospital scene at the end is just cringeworthy. Lance Hendrickson does a decent job with his little monologue but I think that's because his voice is so low and cool.

• the lead character is supposed to have been an army ranger for 12 years and yet he makes very little smart survival or tactical decisions throughout the movie. He seems like he has no more knowledge than a regular person that just enjoys the outdoors and has taken a hunter safety course.

• NO ONE MAKES A SMART DECISION THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MOVIE. NOT ONE SMART DECISION. LITERALLY NOT ONE. I'm serious, it's just series of bad bad bad bad decisions the entire movie. The lead has AMPLE opportunities to shoot and kill the monster, and chooses not to shoot, so many times that it becomes laughable. He does decide to shoot it at one point, which does legitimately hurt the creature, and then he chooses NOT to shoot it again and instead let's it walk away. LETS IT WALK AWAY YOU GUYS. And let's not mention the fact that he walks past his own WORKING CAR to another camp site, a mile away, to then be disappointed that there is no keys for the other guys truck. And even if he needed to use the other guys truck, you are telling me an army ranger Of 12 years doesn't know how to hotwire a vehicle?

• The big fight scene/confrontation at the end is just laughable and riddled with bad decisions. He chooses not to use his gun (which has proven to hurt the creature) until the end, and even then, the writers decide to have him blow up a propane tank THAT IS LIKE 20 FEET AWAY from the monster. The monster happens to light on fire and then he does not shoot it to kill it but let's it run off. He used spears and a knife before he chooses to utilize the gun he has. Makes zero sense.

• the dialog is weak. There are a couple decent lines here and there but it's just weak and amateur writing that is not compelling.

• some of the editing makes no sense. They will jump from day to night and night to day but it's not jumping time. Like it's just showing two separate scenes that take place at two separate times that have nothing to do with each other in a montage that just makes no sense. It would normally be to show a time jump as a few days pass, but they keep showing the same scenes of the same day so it doesn't make sense at all.

• there is a moment where the monster does a jump scare in the woods at night as they are sitting around a campfire. They had just been attacked earlier that day and one man is shining a flashlight through the darkness and the men see it duck behind a tree. One man then says "it doesn't like the fire" and the other man says as he is looking around "it must be gone for the night". Ummm no I'm pretty sure it's right behind that tree.

• the blood throughout the movie IS ORANGE. Like blatantly orange. Why? There is no reason and it is very distracting and brings you out of the story. I know it's low budget but fake blood is not hard to make. Literally corn syrup and red food coloring works wonders. It's genuinely laughably orange. Looks like they killed the Oompa Loompa's from the chocolate factory.

Final thoughts: Overall the movie looks very nice due to a good quality camera and a beautiful setting. But the writing is just so weak once the story really gets going. The best writing and acting in the movie is when he gets out of the hospital in the beginning and is looking at memories of his girlfriend. Unfortunately it begins to go downhill. The set up of the movie isn't the most original but it's also not terrible, and you could do a lot with it. The overall idea of the movie and the ideas of some of the scenes isn't bad but the execution just falls completely flat. There are way too many illogical decisions ESPECIALLY since they make such a big deal of him being an army ranger. The writers have a blatant lack of survival knowledge and so the character just doesn't make any real great survival decisions. The characters are alright, but you stop caring about them with each terrible decision and it really kills the film.

I honestly wouldn't recommend the movie to friends. It doesn't have anything, not even one especially great scene that is worth sitting through the film for. If you want to see a cheesy low budget kinda not great Bigfoot movie, I recommend Abominable from 2006. It's also has some weak writing but it has a compelling set up with interesting character limitations and it has a pretty decent monster and some good gore and tension. It's a great example of a low budget cheesy kinda bad movie, but they have some really interesting things going for it that make it worth a watch. Unfortunately this is not the case with Big Legend. It has the cheesy low budget kinda bad movie vibe. But with nothing to make it worth watching. With the exception of the cinematography, It's not that far beyond a student film.

I give it two stars. One for the beautiful setting throughout and decent acting in the beginning of the movie. And two, for the decent effects and overall decent monster. There are way worse monster movies out there, but there are much better monster movies as well.

Great, realistic, genuinely creepy

[wrey-98868 · 6/10 · 15 May 2021]

If you like creature flicks, this would definitely entertain you and present you with something new. Given, it's not a Hollywood flick, but they do a damn good job.

Well the backpacks were somewhat realistic

[graham-tillotson · 4/10 · 16 March 2019]

Stunning scenery, and for once the backpacks and gear are realistic and they don't head out with dangling straps and empty pockets only to setup a Shangri La campsite that would require four sherpas and two mules.

The frustrating part is that you have Ranger Guy, who is locked and loaded, and he does smart stuff like scanning through his scope or going back to his vehicle when his pack is stolen. But then he stumbles and tumbles through the woods and fails to take point blank shots, or he shoots one bullet. And then he flips into full Rambo mode with the bonfire, sutures, knife spear, and revenge necklace. Ugh. Honestly I'd take Frank Farmer from The Bodyguard over Ranger Guy. Even with a suit and dress shoes Frank runs out into the night woods, focuses his senses, shoots, and almost hits his target. No need for a Rube Goldberg machine with a truck and propane and gas and flares.

So some potential but kind of all over the place. Would have liked better character structure.

Bad reviews are undeserved

[Izzy_Z · 8/10 · 14 July 2018]

This is a simple, honest, straightforward movie, as 1980's as they get. Which is precisely why it's such a breath of fresh air compared to all the product placement-laden, propaganda-ridden CGI wonders of today. Editing and voiceovers could have been better at times, but unless you're a desperate DC/Marvel fanboi, you are going to like this movie. Looking forward to the follow-up.

Great movie in a genre of stinkers.

[beansbaxter-40197 · 7/10 · 6 July 2018]

There are not a lot of good Bigfoot movies out there. The original Boggy Creek, Exists and Harry and the Hendersons are about it.

This movie adds to that list. I can't wait to see what happens in the next installment.

Movie looks great. I'm not crazy about the design of their Bigfoot but everything else about this movie will reach out and speak to anyone who has ever been in the woods looking for Squatch.

Hairy mop with botox lips...

[tattoopig · 2/10 · 4 July 2018]

A guy and his girl go camping. Bigfoot steals the girl. Guy goes to loony bin and a year later his mother tells him to go back to the woods and get revenge. Most of the film is walking in the woods, falling into the smooshed remains of his girl and screaming at the sky. The monster appears in the last 15mins looking like a mop with botoxed lips.Fighting ensues. A car blows up. Our hero (?) ends up in hospital. Lance Henriksen is there in a wheelchair and wants to recruit our hero (?) for a team of monster hunters. The film ends. Utter garbage.

horrible waste of time

[rehmankhilji · 1/10 · 7 July 2018]

D class, horrible, pathetic, waste of time movie. It seems like some kid made a ridiculous school project with his mobile. Horrible from the start till the very end. IMDB should introduce a minus ranking and this one would in it. Dont waste your time on watching. Save your self.