A disappointment, to put it (very) mildly. That's mainly due to an idiotic premise, a bad script, equally bad direction, and special effects (the most important aspect of every sci-fi!) of a deplorable quality. That the acting was over-all surprisingly good just couldn't save it.
This is what it's all about. Deeply buried under our feet resides a giant mythical monster for like millions of years, but at the start of the movie it decides to pop up to punish the world-populace for it's faults (i.e. The systematic neglect of the environment and the killing of each other, etcetera). Is it god-sent? Or some demon? The movie never explains, apart from some fuzzy references to old Indian tales.
Behemoth reveals itself at first by terrible earthquakes and tsunami's all over the world, making us believe that it stretches it's body out under the entire surface of the earth. At last we see the terrible monster itself, sitting on top of a burst-open mountain, and indeed it's big, like maybe some hundreds of feet high and tentacles that stretch for many miles around him. But GLOBALLY big?!? Can this overblown octopus cause the destruction of all mankind and the whole wide world?? How? It just sits there glued to the mountain, flapping it's tentacles and roaring through it's wide opened jaws. Will it smash or swallow all the 7 billion people on earth one by one?? Roar them to death?? It's utterly unbelievable and plain silly. Okay, the CGI-picture of the beast is nice, with some Lovecraftian traits, but it never ever creates any sense of the supposed apocalyptic doom or terror.
Anyway: the local hero of the story takes it on him to destroy the beast, and how he goes about it, is as unbelievable and silly as the premise itself. On the positive side: after seeing this movie I immediately slept better - possibly from being bored too much.
This is what it's all about. Deeply buried under our feet resides a giant mythical monster for like millions of years, but at the start of the movie it decides to pop up to punish the world-populace for it's faults (i.e. The systematic neglect of the environment and the killing of each other, etcetera). Is it god-sent? Or some demon? The movie never explains, apart from some fuzzy references to old Indian tales.
Behemoth reveals itself at first by terrible earthquakes and tsunami's all over the world, making us believe that it stretches it's body out under the entire surface of the earth. At last we see the terrible monster itself, sitting on top of a burst-open mountain, and indeed it's big, like maybe some hundreds of feet high and tentacles that stretch for many miles around him. But GLOBALLY big?!? Can this overblown octopus cause the destruction of all mankind and the whole wide world?? How? It just sits there glued to the mountain, flapping it's tentacles and roaring through it's wide opened jaws. Will it smash or swallow all the 7 billion people on earth one by one?? Roar them to death?? It's utterly unbelievable and plain silly. Okay, the CGI-picture of the beast is nice, with some Lovecraftian traits, but it never ever creates any sense of the supposed apocalyptic doom or terror.
Anyway: the local hero of the story takes it on him to destroy the beast, and how he goes about it, is as unbelievable and silly as the premise itself. On the positive side: after seeing this movie I immediately slept better - possibly from being bored too much.