Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

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

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Wuchak Released in 2001, "Beneath Loch Ness" chronicles events at the popular loch in Scotland as a team of researchers try to find the infamous "monster." The team is played by Brian Wimmer, Lysa Apostle, David Andriole, Chris Taaffe and Lysette Anthony. Their work is complicated by the presence of local teams playing a Nessie stunt. Patrick Bergin is on hand as a vengeful Scottish fisherman. While not as polished and weighty as 1996's "Loch Ness" with Ted Danson, "Beneath Loch Ness" is better than 2008's "Beyond Loch Ness" (aka "Loch Ness Terror"). Despite the obvious budget limitations, I'm giving it a mild 'thumbs up' because the cast and story drew me into the world of the characters. Plus there's an interesting twist revealed in the third act. In other words, this isn't just another movie about encountering Nessie, although Nessie's in it. Lacking the funds for quality F/X, the filmmakers make the right decision to hold off showing the creature till the very end, where the CGI is cartoony but serviceable for a low-budget flick from 2001. After just viewing the laughably bad "Mega Piranha," I was ready for the worst, but "Beneath Loch Ness" surprised me as a respectable nature-runs-amok flick. It's far from great, but it's not bad either. Despite the lack of funds, the filmmakers took the project seriously and it shows. Critics nitpick the Scottish accents and stereotypes, but who cares about that? Besides, stereotypes exist because there's SOME truth them. The film runs 96 minutes and was shot in Scotland and Castaic Lake, Santa Clarita, California. I'm assuming that establishing shots were done in Scotland with the actual movie being shot at Castaic Lake, CA. If so, they chose a convincing stand-in for Loch Ness. Excellent job on this front. GRADE: B-

Keith Pangilinan As a fan of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," I have quite the tolerance of crappy cinema. Telefutura & THIS channel show 'em every night. But hard to believe, I stumbled upon "Beneath Loch Ness" on CW12 on a Saturday night. I didn't watch all of the film, but I did learn enough to say that this movie depicts Scotland as accurately as Sam Bacile depicted Islam in "Innocence of Muslims." But this ain't no movie worth dying for (literally) or sparking a worldwide protest. Just type a few reviews somewhere online outside IMDb.com w/ numerous obscenities (e.g. "'Beneath Loch Ness' %&~?ing sucks!!") as you would any other bad movie. But the fact that I discovered "Beneath Loch Ness" on The CW proves that it didn't get enough negative notoriety for audiences to hate it like some Razzie-winning films or anything from The IMDb Bottom 100. I did have the somewhat misfortune to watch it in English unlike most movies on Telefutura to learn that the Scots sounded a little too American. "Beneath Loch Ness" has stars (in name only) like Patrick Bergin, the villain in the Julia Roberts film "Sleeping with the Enemy" & Brian Wimmer, who I only recall in the TV series remake of "Flipper," also featuring a pre-famous Jessica Alba. The underwater depiction was flawed in the sense that the movement of objects was as swift as it would be on land, as in the scene where the divers find the pink eggs or something like that. Not only that, the explosion of the depth charges looked like explosions in the air. I've seen better underwater explosions on "Gorgo" (as seen on MST3K). But I can't finish this review w/o the most egregious flaw of location scouting. If you're gonna make a movie set in Scotland but can't actually be in Scotland, choose a similar location w/ mild, temperate climate. & there are many of 'em, like New Zealand or Nova Scotia ("New Scotland" in Latin). Or the other side of N. America - BC or WA; everybody makes movies there! But this Loch Ness was actually Castaic Lake in California. As a Californian who's traveled many times between Bakersfield & the L.A. metro area, I recognized the Mediterranean landscape w/o Googling it! Castaic Lake is the first exit on the I-5 south after passing through the mountains that leads to fast food restaurants & gas stations! Needles 2 say, "Beneath Loch Ness" is typical crappy movie-making from its bombastic CGI monster to cookie-cutter characters & plot. Watch only while channel surfing & if you have a high tolerance of stupid cinema.

astrauch There are people who know the dangers. They are made fun of, chased out of town. No one cares? "Let's go into the water. The rich business man says it is OK" Apparently I need to write more lines. The creatures always evade the best technology, or worse the people get sent out into danger with fault instruments. "get going, save the world, but sir our sensors don't work, OK I'll go"If a group of four go two will die, the obnoxious, pervert dies first. Then his girlfriend or the girl noxious guy was hitting on. The heroes girlfriend appears to die but she gets save by hero of the movie at the end. Nobody get too freaked as the death toll rises. Just some thoughts on this kind of movie.

RichardVRichard I'd like to say I don't really feel entitled to comment on this movie after I gave up 40 minutes in. But nevertheless...I bought this cheapy and cheery DVD for the grand sum of £2.99 at the local newsagents.My doubts about the quality of this film began shortly after the underwater earthquake. Yes you heard me, underwater earthquake. In Scotland. Underwater. This is explained by the line "Actually Scotland is located on a large tectonic fault." For comparison; this is similar for the overlook hotel to get randomly swept away by a tsunami in the Shining and having dick halloran and a policeman standing over the ruins and the policeman explaining "Actually Colorado has quite a large coastline."But maybe I'd let that one pass. Serious doubts were added when the action flitted back to a sandy rock a.k.a Afghanistan for no reason other than to get the yearly exotic Asian fix in.Slowly other incidents crept in. Such as the sub-tropical nature of Scotland I had not noticed. Or the fact that a community entirely dependent on tourism asserts "We don't like outsiders." And random scenes for no apparent reason are dubbed. Badly.From here things simply got worse; the police force apparently in unison with the local populace seems determined at destroying the economy with the repeated assertion he wants no more of this Nessie rubbish. The accents go from low to low. The same CGI effect is repeatedly used. And its not even a good one; it looks like a brown log underwater. Its not long before hippies swarm down from their climes and see Nessies recent carnage as a good reason for bobbing occult ceremonies. Nessie despite being the size of a small oil tanker has no problem entering low tide completely submerged and massacring the pagans without being seen.The point were I cracked was when a major character randomly turns to another mid-argument and yells 'Is this because of our divorce?' She the breaks into tears. WHAT? Not the slightest provocation was dropped for this other than the sudden need for a romantic lead.I went away but from those foolhardy to sit through I hear a stunning conclusion was achieved with explosives and what not. I'm assuming the two main characters realised their divorce was too soon and the evil overlord financing the operation from his New York lair got some kind of comeuppance but that is by-the-by.My verdict: Aninsulttoallthatisgoodandtrue/10