Sabretooth (2002)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie is unbelievably bad. It is difficult to believe that they actually make stuff like this. At least if you are going to make this kind of movie make it believable.Full of clichés, bad lines, bad special effects, bad acting and the dumbest bunch of hikers one ever met. Unfortunately the trivia gives it away when it lets us know that these supposedly experienced hikers make more rookie mistakes then well - rookies. I have had Cubs look smarter in the woods then these bunch of amateurs ever thought of being.Geezus - Scare us. Make us feel genuinely frightened. Don't just Cheese us to death. If I had wanted pure Cheese I'd have watched Machete.

Sabretooth was not a good or great movie, but considering SyFy's track record it was better than anticipated. Special effects aside, it is not bad visually, with some good scenery and well-shot scenes, the music does at least have a tempo and had some excitement and atmosphere and the acting while not award-worthy is better than average, John Rhys-Davies deserved a better character and dialogue but like all other conscientious actors he gives it his best. On the other hand, the special effects are really crude and fake-looking, while there is some wit the script is on the whole dull and cheesy, the story is formulaic with nothing especially exciting or suspenseful and the characters are underdeveloped stereotypes. All in all, better than I thought it'd be but still not a movie I recommend. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I need a pleistocene pooper-scooper. This movie is flat-out awful on nearly every conceivable level: Script, acting, effects, believability, story etc...You may find yourself rooting for the poorly cg'ed sabretooth cat; hoping he'll kill again in order to stem the seemingly endless tide of awful dialog.I am sure that if the cat coulda talked, he'd have said "exit, stage left, for our careers, even" but alas...no such luck. It has been many years since I have seen a movie this bad.I wanted to give this a 0.5 because a 1 is a bit generous!

I'm hopelessly addicted to the "Bwana-Bwana" movie genre, which is why I stayed tuned despite the cliché Characters, gawdoffal CGI, and outworn ("Human Greed + Quirky Science = Disaster") Premise.The allusions to the 1996 Big-Screen Thriller, "The Ghost and the Darkness" are unmistakable. The Big Game Hunter is even dressed up to resemble Michael Douglas' "Remington" character. The cave two of the teens explore by torchlight may remind you of the Tsavo Lions' (far spookier) Den, investigated by Douglas and Val Kilmer. The final showdown echoes the sequence in which Kilmer and John Kani together take on the second of the twin Man-Eaters.As a horror movie, this sucked. (What, nobody goes up and --stupidly -- pokes the "carcass" at the end?? ) As an "Adventure" film this could actually have been a "Contender"