"Poseidon Rex" (2013) - is exactly what you'd expect from a SyFy Channel movie from the time. I'm not sure it was one, but I suspect it was. In any case, you'll recognize the formula.
It's current rating on IMDB is a pretty low 2.5, but that doesn't mean it's not worth watching. A lot of people who just don't appreciate these kinds of "mindless" monster movies still feel a need to watch them and rate them. A review I read a few years back put them into perspective for me. They're like the movies we watched as kids on a rainy Saturday. It wasn't really important if Gamera or 70s era Godzilla made sense. We wanted to watch them challenge mankind, or other monsters, and destroy buildings and tanks.
The modern offshoots of these movies tend to follow a core group of unlikely heroes and bring in the military late in the film. "Poseidon Rex" has these elements and adds a set of thugs as well. There's no lack of action.
Brian Krause leads a cast of people I didn't recognize. But most of the main characters were more than adequate. The one acting flaw almost everyone exhibited was an inability to fire a prop weapon convincingly. This was likely because the weapons they were firing didn't even fire blanks. The muzzle flashes were painfully obvious post production add ins. Like all of these films characters fire countless rounds at the monster with very minimal results.
Let's talk about the monster. He's the real attraction, right? Or maybe I should say "she" since she's got a bunch of eggs siting on the ocean floor. What would a good monster movie be without a world threat of more monsters as a side story? Poseidon Rex looks really good. She's got a fearsome design, moves well underwater and has a few nice touches setting her apart from T-Rex. What she doesn't look like is the monster in the cover art. The real problem with her, hwever, is she never looks like she's sharing the same space as the human characters. Something is off about her lighting in almost every scene. But, if she were living in a 3D cartoon world of her own, she would be spectacular.
The plot moves at a brisk pace, attempts to make sense and has lots of shooting, running, and monster destruction. It's not a great film, but it's a great film for people wanting to turn their brains off for awhile.
It's current rating on IMDB is a pretty low 2.5, but that doesn't mean it's not worth watching. A lot of people who just don't appreciate these kinds of "mindless" monster movies still feel a need to watch them and rate them. A review I read a few years back put them into perspective for me. They're like the movies we watched as kids on a rainy Saturday. It wasn't really important if Gamera or 70s era Godzilla made sense. We wanted to watch them challenge mankind, or other monsters, and destroy buildings and tanks.
The modern offshoots of these movies tend to follow a core group of unlikely heroes and bring in the military late in the film. "Poseidon Rex" has these elements and adds a set of thugs as well. There's no lack of action.
Brian Krause leads a cast of people I didn't recognize. But most of the main characters were more than adequate. The one acting flaw almost everyone exhibited was an inability to fire a prop weapon convincingly. This was likely because the weapons they were firing didn't even fire blanks. The muzzle flashes were painfully obvious post production add ins. Like all of these films characters fire countless rounds at the monster with very minimal results.
Let's talk about the monster. He's the real attraction, right? Or maybe I should say "she" since she's got a bunch of eggs siting on the ocean floor. What would a good monster movie be without a world threat of more monsters as a side story? Poseidon Rex looks really good. She's got a fearsome design, moves well underwater and has a few nice touches setting her apart from T-Rex. What she doesn't look like is the monster in the cover art. The real problem with her, hwever, is she never looks like she's sharing the same space as the human characters. Something is off about her lighting in almost every scene. But, if she were living in a 3D cartoon world of her own, she would be spectacular.
The plot moves at a brisk pace, attempts to make sense and has lots of shooting, running, and monster destruction. It's not a great film, but it's a great film for people wanting to turn their brains off for awhile.
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