lojitsu A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Leviathan" (R - 1989 - US)Sub-Genre: MonsterMy Score: 6.8Cast=7 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=6 Scare=7 Jump=6 F/X=6 Monster=8 Gore=5Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one. "Look at my foot! This bitch put a goddamn sea monster in my bunk!" You don't know the half of it, buddy! This movie was trying to be "John Carpenter's The Thing" except the water was a liquid instead of a solid. It didn't live up to that, but I liked it anyway. Solid action, good acting, and a strong ending is exactly what I wanted from an 80's horror movie. I'm sure Peter Weller wanted to be Robocop (I know I did), but hey we can't have our cake and eat it too.

Alondro I give it a 3 because the effects of the monster-mutant thing creature(s) are pretty convincingly done.But this movie is pure B-movie schlock, just with a studio budget. It's a jumble of bits of other, better movies; and is about as generic and predictable as it gets. You feel no tension at all; firstly because it takes half the movie for anything to happen, and secondly you know what's going to happen and who's going to bite it well before the tentacle monster gets them.It really is just "Alien" meets "The Thing" under the sea. Heck, the crew are even mining minerals. All it needed was a nuclear self-destruct.I'd compare it to "Life"... which is practically the exact same movie, now in space, with an even bigger budget.

Steve Chilcote So its a movie about an unwanted visitor into an enclosed and isolated ship (sound familiar?). Very predictable, characters are all stereotyped and done with a story line straight from the best SF movie ever made - "Alien". I gave it a 5 strictly because it held my interest, but at the end I wanted to say to myself, "Really? That's it?". Glad I didn't pay to see in theater.

Bobby Sixkiller Hammond A very great movie. I think that if have never Watch Leviathan, you have miss a movie that is a date in the Cinema history. All is good in this movie, all the actors are excellents but there is one who is simply a genius : Peter Weller. Peter Weller is The actor and he found in this wonderful movie his best role (with his absolute interpretation of Robocop). He can be humoristic, frightened, courageous.......) He can play all and in Leviathan Peter Weller give a lesson to all beginning actor. The FX are very good for the date of this movie. Leviathan is the ultimate movie of submarine monster. Watch Leviathan and you will become a better guy.