All Appetizer no meat and potatoes

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2008)

First off let me just say this movie isn't bad. But this movie is also FAR from good. I went into this movie with the eagerness I once had seeing transformers (the 1980's one)and then this time i came out wishing i had watched something else and waited for the rental.
FIrst off the movie is incredibly slow off the get go. A bunch of meaningless backstory which ultimately if you're a science fiction buff like myself wont care anything about. It took nearly I'd say a good chunk of the movie till they got to the actual part of the movie i came to see.
The monster is nothing surprisingly. I wont give away details but it matches the typical swamp thing cliché. Also the movie gives you almost no reference just a bunch of whats this whats that how'd that happen etc etc etc, using a technique i call 'WHAT WAS THAT', basically looping the viewer in simply on curiosity.
Also I have to complain about the shaky POINT AT THE DAMN SCENE camera control. There were a dozen times easily i was going to myself learn how to use the flippin camera. If this was a real doc i'd understand. THIS Isn't this is a totally fictional BUDGET movie so lets film like it. THey filled it full of nonsense simply as if to squeeze a bunch of meaningless 'stuff' in just to draw out time.
In the end it really comes down to about an hour of back story and jargin added to 20 mins of 'Cool stuff'.
Good for the sci fi buff but don't go in with high hopes.