Leviathan | | Cast : | Peter Weller, Richard Crenna | | Director : | George P. Cosmatos | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 17, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | July 17, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | March 21, 2005 | | Summary | Seafaring Alien movie | Content
 | Shack 7 is an underwater base manned by 8 men and a woman who have been submerged on a mining mission for 2 whole months .With barely a day or so remaining of their mission they discover a sunken Russian naval vessel ,Leviathan .Searching the ship's log they find its whole crew died of a mysterious disease before ithe ship was scuppered by the crew .They discover vodka among the crew's affects and the company of Shack 7 look forward to a party until their leader Breck (Peter Weller ) sticking to the rule book ,confiscates the alcohol but not before one crew member , Six Pack ( Daniel Stern )manages to pocket a hip flask and organises a private party with Bowman ( Lisa Eilbacher).
Big mistake ! the Russians had been experimenting with genetic mutations and the booze is the medium they used to carry a virus which changes people into monsters .
When Six Pack dies his body changes into something reptilian and before you know it he's alive again ,and the same fate befalls Bowman .The dead are evolving into something else and from here on in its a pitched battle between the remaining crew of Shack 7 and the constantly evolving and mutating monster .The monster is constantly evolving and changing, absorbing the memories of its victims and genetically fusing the faces of the victims with its own body .
Leviathan was compared with other underwater chillers like The Abyss but its true source is Alien with its crew versus monster scenario ,and there is even a monster in the stomach scene .As such there is little new about the picture and it is a rehash of ideas done better elsewhere .
Take it as a well shot and decently acted creature feature however and this is a solid little picture with some decent effects and well worth watching for these alone .Provided you do not set a premium on originality this is enjoyable escapist movie making
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| Rating | | | Date | March 07, 2005 | | Summary | 80's Alien rip off that isn't too bad | Content
| Since the first two Alien films, there have been countless big budget and low budget thrillers that take the formula of the previously mentioned films and make it so contrived that there is hardly a shred of originality left in the idea. Leviathan is close to being an example of this, and while it's hardly original in it's plot, the cast, effects, and set designs help it stand above other derivative drivel like Deep Star Six and other Alien rip off's to come out of the 80's. Peter Weller, Ernie Hudson, the late Richard Crenna, and Daniel Stern are among the crew members of a salvage crew who find a submerged Russian ship. After Stern's character treats himself to some vodka found on board, he is transmutated into a slimy and hungry creature that is soon picking the crew off one by one. Not original in the least, but it has enough going for it to keep it from going overboard into complete absurdity. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 09, 2005 | | Summary | Unintentionally hilarious | Content
| I was watching tv not too long ago when my local UPN station decided to air an '80s relic "Leviathan". I almost forgot just how cheesy this film was. As a teenager, this was one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Even as a teen, I knew right away that this film was an Aliens gone underwater film with bad special effects. When I saw this film tonight, it was so badly dated and just so unintentionally funny.
The premise of the film has Robocop's Peter Weller leading a ragtag team of scientists at the bottom of the ocean. This alone just had "Alien" rip-off written all over it. And if you noticed the similiarities in the characters, you really know that the people behind this movie watched "Alien" way too many time. The crew discovers an old sunken Russian ship. They decided to bring up a safe from the ship. Inside the safe is an unfinished bottle of vodka which some of the crew makes the mistake of consuming. The results is this horrible-looking alien terrorizing the remaining crew mates.
I don't know what made this film horrendous is the acting, the writing, or the premise of the film. This Alien gone underwater plot was really lame. The special effects is even worse. Nevertheless "Leviathan" is still good for a few unintentional laughs. Yeah it is stupid but it is unintentionally funny with the bad acting and the blatant rip-off of a classic horror/sci-fi film like "Alien". |
| Rating | | | Date | January 21, 2004 | | Summary | Quite possibly the worst movie ever made | Content
| Horrible. Predictable. Everything predictable--even the part where you never get to see the monster, and even when you do "see" the monster in the end, you're not really looking at anything but a random conglomeration of bogus latex. And I mean RANDOM.
And then, when the sharks even attack the characters in the end? Well, the movie makers thought that would be scary, but I remember the movie audience erupting in laughter at the preposterousness of it all. A ridiculous, terrible waste of my time. Don't let it waste yours. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 04, 2002 | | Summary | underwater scares | Content
| Having a monster movie filmed in a huge underwater mining lab is kinda silly at first, but gets pretty cool after a while. I've seen several Peter Weller movies, and this is his second best sci-fi movie he's done (right next to "RoboCop"). For people who haven't seen this movie yet, it's about a group of
wise-cracking underwater miners (led by Weller) who's being terrorized by a giant human-fishlike creature that was spawned from a genetic experiment gone haywire. The special effects was pretty cool, although they could have done a little more, but it's still an enjoyable movie to watch. Oscar winning composer Jerry Goldsmith (winner of the Best musical Score Oscar for 1976's "The Omen") does an excellect job conducting action & scary music sequences throughout the entire picture. |
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