Blood Monkey (2007)

As Good As It Gets

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Funny, lame and stupid! Nothing to say more about this dreadful film about some college students traveling to the woods of Thailand to discover a new species of large ape and what CGI ape that was!!! All the students were impossible!! Some of them are annoying some of them were boring, and for God's sake... these actors, were really annoying with their British accent, they just couldn't perform it like real British actors, these didn't have a proper acting training, sweet Jesus! Unknown Z actors, leaded by... by... once a great A actor, and he is still great, but poor hell, how the hell he ended up here...? F. Murray Abraham, why?! How come that you ended up in this pyle of monkey turd!? He tried, he tried to give us some performance of eccentric, crazy primate scientist, but with his British accent, the entire fuc*king movie was about competition "Who Has the Best British Accent"... oh... for the... A real mess, real mess... If you see it in the video store... skip it and take the next stupid film. This one is not worth of your time.

This film is directed by the Hammer Horror and British television veteran director Robert Young, not the actor, so the facts are right if you check thoroughly enough. As such, poor film or not, I say that we should be glad that those who provided top class efforts in their youth (and ours) are still working, albeit not in the classy productions that they might wish. I'd sooner Robert Young directed this than not direct at all. I have happy memories of 'Vampire Circus' and 'Charlie Boy' from the dear old Hammer House and I have plenty of good things to say about the TV shows the guy directed, including Minder, GBH and Jeeves and Wooster. Okay, so this is typical exploitation crap, but it is an item of interest through its director's heritage.

Is it beyond the realm of possibility that there may be more than one Robert Young? You are correct in the fact that Robert Young is not listed in the cast - however, he is the director of the film. No, Robert Young did not come back from the dead to direct it, there are actually 18 Robert Young's listed in IMDb. I do have to say that this review section proved to be more exciting than the film. xminusone, please , before railing somebody else's opinion, do your due diligence by at least reading some of the credits first. Nice review Richard! Keep up the good work. F Murray Abraham's performance is well done, but that is to be expected. I have to agree that this film seems to be one step above the usual Sci Fi junk (ie anything starring Lorenzo Lamas).

F. Murray Abraham pays the rent by lending his Oscar winning credibility to this routine creature feature. As a mad scientist type he joins an obligatory ensemble of bickering students as they wander around a forest in Thailand until its time for the creature to turn up. Its all very by-the-numbers and elderly film and TV veteran Robert Young keeps the quality reasonably high considering the limitations. Fans of the genre (a mainstay of the Sci-Fi Channel) will know what to expect, though this is of higher quality than many similar productions, but thats not saying much when a film displays not a single novel trait.