SAJK Poor script, poor characters, poor acting, poor direction, poor special effects...need I go on? It really is sad to see Lance Henrikson ending his career making these stinkers. Do not be fooled (as I was) by some of the reviewers here saying this stands up next to Carpenters 'The Thing'....it is nowhere near it. I only granted it 3 stars because there are actually films around that are even worse. Please don't bother. Just watch 'The Thing' again instead.

suite92 The Three Acts:The initial tableaux: In 1982, a Russian manned probe re-enters Earth's atmosphere, something besides the cosmonaut is on board. The probe ditches in the sea, to the north, near Alaska.In current times, graduate student Sadie, professor and project leader Stephen, and lab tech Ronelle have a grant to study the effect of global warming on Beluga whales in the Arctic. Sadie's grandfather, Captain Graff, agrees to take the academics on his crab boat Harbinger to do the study. Graff and his crew (Dock, Svet, Big G, Atka, Bowman) will catch crab at night. The academics have the daytime to study the whales. Early in this process, they ping the lost probe, then bring it aboard. They discover the extra on board was an engineered organism.Delineation of conflicts: The organism is glad to be awake and have a lot to eat. Stephen wants full credit for the discovery, even though Sadie discovered it. The Russians, as it turned out, have a representative aboard to implement their strategy. The crew of the Harbinger want to survive the elimination derby.Resolution: Will the Russians get their way? Will anyone of the original crew survive?

Cody Lewis Saw this movie and thought it might be a nice movie, until they show "Dutch Harbor". Funny thing is, I used to live there for a good number of years. This movie didn't even come close to reality, did no one even research the location? There are NOT that many trees there and the landscape was completely wrong. I couldn't even watch the rest, knowing they made such a glaring mistake from the get go. I will probably end up watching the rest, if only to see the other mistakes im sure are there. Hopefully they put more thought in the rest of the movie, although I currently don't have high hopes that it will be all that good.

philipmorrison-73118 You can catch this on Netflix. If you've got nothing better to do, go ahead and watch. This is a definite attempt at John Carpenter's "The Thing". The monster is a virus type thingy that grows and can shape shift. It takes out the drama of it shifting into human form. It just goes from monster to liquid and back again. Everything is moderate for this movie from acting to script to special effects. The budget was probably pretty low, so take that into account. To top it all, the ship was supposed to explode at the end and it doesn't so you can add editing issues to the list. The monster is kind of fun to watch, but not overly scary.