Folks who are going to watch this movie expecting a documentary gone bad, should stay clear of this movie. Despite its clever advertising, this is pretty much just a "monster in the water" flick. It starts off as a documentary about the work of Werner Herzog, here he tells us briefly about his past films and briefly talks about his new documentary "Enigma Of Loch Ness." We are then introduced to the documentary crew, and we go through about an hour of production problems and the occasional hint that sh*t will hit the fan eventually, helped greatly by the quick sightings of something in the water. And funny enough you would actually believe that this really happened, but then the acting slowly heads off into the cheese ball factor with some over the top acting, yet still entertaining from Zak Penn. And not to mention the fact that a cgi hump keeps popping out of the water. The last 30 minutes of the film drifts from a freaky story about possibly something in the water, to a monster flick. Which granted I have no problem with. Overall the film is still entertaining, and a good watch, it features some moments which are a little creepy, and some of the special effects, though cgi, are still believable. If some of the "People wouldn't act like that in that situation" scenes were cut and the horror movie ending was taken out, I would have easily given this film a 9. But sadly it seemed to suffer from a little Hollywood syndrome, at least Zak Penn was smart in using the less is more technique, which worked to the movies advantage in some scenes.
Review of Incident at Loch Ness
