Michael Ledo The TV series, "The Expedition Channel" finances digs and expeditions. While having a crew at Loch Ness, Gus (Dick Stilwell) dies while scuba diving Loch Ness. The studio relocates a different heavy weight, Brian Wimmer to replace Gus. You get a peek at Nessie early in the film. The diving crew discovers rocks which look like large eggs, and whenever they go to look at them, Nessie appears and disrupts their dive. Meanwhile some kids with a web site about Loch Ness plant a fake looking shiny metallic green Nessie for their on-line cam to get subscribers. Got the plot figured out 15 minutes into the film?Filmed in the US, the movie also stars Lysette Anthony from "Krull" and Lysa Apostle whose short movie career ended after this film. This movie was written and directed by visual effects producer Chuck Chomisky (Avatar)who never wrote or directed after this film. The town, which prospers from the myth of Loch Ness, doesn't want people coming there, especially those Euro-trash hooligans. The local fishermen "boom fish" which disrupts the sonar...although there is not enough fish in the lake to boom fish (which means there isn't enough to support Nessie either).Lysette Anthony actually gives us a good performance in what is a bad script. It was almost as if she was doing Shakespeare, and no one else was. The film cruises along as a fairly decent "B" movie, then all of a sudden it turns real bad...and the ending? Really? That was the best Chomisky could come up with or did they run out of money?No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

vchimpanzee A crew from a TV series on an American cable channel is in Scotland to learn about the secrets of the Loch Ness Monster. The expert, Gus Egan, takes a big risk and ends up going down a deep hole, presumably to his death. The crew calls in their other expert, Case, who is reluctant but eventually comes anyway to help investigate.Meanwhile, a group of Scottish young people wants to attract people to their web site, so they create a hoax. Their plan goes terribly wrong and kills one of them.Scottish officials stand in the way of the investigation. Townspeople warn the Americans of danger. But the TV crew won't be stopped. They eventually locate Blay, known as "Captain Bligh", who because of his carelessness accidentally killed his son years ago. Maybe he will have the answers.I have seen two movies about the Loch Ness Monster in the past several weeks. One called "Water Horse" was quite good and could be described as "E.T.: The Loch Ness Monster". If you want to watch one of them, watch that one. This one came across more like a sequel to "Jaws".The characters with American accents had neither good writing nor good acting for the most part. Brian Wimmer did slightly better than the rest.On the other hand, those with Scottish accents seemed to do better. The standout performer was Patrick Bergin, who didn't do much until about halfway through the movie. Actually, I say Scottish accents. A tour guide sounded like the host of an Irish music program on my local NPR station, who I have heard talk a few times.Now a British accent is another matter. Lysette Anthony seemed to do a better job, as the TV producer, because of her accent. People with British accents often seem more intelligent. Still, her name was Lizzie Borden. Seriously? The scenery was nice and the visual effects acceptable. And there was some comedy here and there. And Patrick Bergin really did contribute a great deal.It wasn't a total waste of time.

Woodyanders A crack team of scientific researchers try to solve the age-old mystery of Loch Ness. Man, does this hideously tedious clunker reek worse than skanky old tuna: The slack (non)direction by Chuck Comisky (who also co-wrote the excruciatingly dull and talky script) allows the pace to meander at a painfully poky clip, there's no tension or spooky atmosphere to speak of, the stereotypical local yokels sport dodgy Scottish accents, the evocation of Scotland isn't remotely convincing, the murky underwater photography is a major strain on the eyes, the generic shivery score further undermines the inept attempts at suspense, and the lousy (far from) special effects don't even come close to cutting it (the CGI creature in particular is simply pathetic). The hapless cast flounder with the sub-par material: Patrick Bergin contributes an atrociously hammy third-rate Robert Shaw impersonation as the crazed and vengeful Blay, Brian Wimmer makes for an insipid and underwhelming hero as earnest head researcher Case, Lysette Anthony plays bitchy and opportunistic reporter Elizabeth to the obnoxious ninth degree, and Vernon Wells is supremely irritating as the resident toolbag constable. Worse yet, the lame'n'tame PG-13 rating ensures that that there's no graphic gore or tasty gratuitous female nudity to alleviate the numbing severity of the pervasive boredom. Hold your nose if you decide to waste 96 minutes of your precious life on this turkey, because baby does this one seriously stink!

BreanneB I like this movie, I thought it was very well made and written. However, Loch Ness is definitely better. The thing that made me like this less is that it has so many scary parts in it, that my little brother, who likes Sci-Fi movies got scared and ran into my mother's room afterwards.I am very interested in the Loch Ness monster though. The best part is when they show him for the very first time. It was very good thought. Kudos to the cast, crew and filmmakers! Two Thumbs Way Up! Just remember nest time to make something better and more suitable to all ages!