Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Leofwine_draca Just one of many new, lower-budgeted B-movies, designed to resemble the classic '50s monster movies of old and generally involving some creature or monster animated by the spanking new process of CGI. OCTOPUS is a travesty, a moronic movie full of brainless characters, appalling dialogue and more holes than a lump of Swiss cheese. Yet, it remains oddly enjoyable. Why, I wonder? The pacing is fast, for a start, and the plot is a chock with action. Not content with just providing a straightforward giant monster movie, the writer throws in an action-thriller angle involving a major terrorist being transported to America on board the submarine. You know, just like in TURBULENCE, PASSENGER 57, and two dozen other movies from the '90s.Sadly the terrorist angle of the plot is more annoying than anything, due to the hero's reluctance to kill the man. On numerous occasions he is quite in his rights to shoot the man dead – after all, the terrorist kills about a dozen people (off screen), has blown up nine embassies, and is a real creep. But our wimpish, loathsome, baby-faced hero just can't bring himself to pull the trigger. The fourth time this happens is extremely aggravating. So the terrorist – played by overacting Russian actor Ravil Issyanov – is kept alive, despite the rest of the crew dying.The story is pathetic and rips off about ten movies as it goes along. In fact everything that happens is a cliché and there is not one surprise to be had. To tie up loose plot ends they just blow up stuff in big, cheesy, unrealistic CGI explosions. Speaking of CGI, the octopus itself is very fake-looking, just like the computer animation that it is. Even the epic scenes at the end of it attacking the (CGI) cruise liner are just poor despite their scale. Check out the ALIEN-inspired extendable mouth on the beast, just another unrealistic element of an already ludicrous movie.Jay Harrington actually seems to be a halfway decent actor. It's just a shame his lead character is such a lousy coward that the audience will be willing him to die. David Beecroft is the stereotypical captain, suicidal and failed, who redeems himself by acts of heroism. Then there's Carolyn Lowery as a marine biologist. We're introduced to Lowery as she plays strip poker with the crew, later on she is required by the plot to strip to her underwear on numerous occasions. No nudity, of course, this being a PG-13 film, but she's there solely to give the film some glamour content. Other token characters include crew members who suffer breakdowns and commit suicide or flee (such drama doesn't really belong in a supposedly cheap and cheerful B-movie) and the black guy who gets unsurprisingly killed.Other amusing incidents in the film include: bad guys taking over a cruise liner (easier than you think) just so they can rescue the terrorist from the sub; the octopus searching the sub for food without the sub actually flooding; and the numerous cliff-hanger situations that are resolved unrealistically and without any intelligence. OCTOPUS is a film where the writer treats the audience as idiots and makes little effort to tie everything together. Instead he is happy to throw in more clichés to wring out every little bit of drama and excitement. In fact the best bit of the film is the chase scene which opens it; ironically it has nothing to do with octopuses (octupii?) or mutated monsters. Check out the last shot, which shows the hero has escaped from an underwater explosion despite the fact we saw him crash the submersible into it seconds before and there being no possible way for him to be alive.

TheLittleSongbird While expecting little from Octopus I was preparing to be mildly entertained. In all honesty I was more entertained by Spiders and Frankenfish of the one word creature features, but Octopus is better than Crocodile. It is not a complete disaster, I did think the cast did a better than average job considering what they had to work with, and the ending was exciting and intense with the Octopus, who was otherwise not very scary and was under-utilised, making its best appearance. However, the effects are very artificial-looking and don't move very convincingly, and the hackneyed editing doesn't help either. The script is cheesy and muddled, the story is mostly dull and predictable with any scenes meaning to be scary undermined by a real lack of tension and like I said with Crocodile I wouldn't have minded whether the characters were clichéd if they weren't so poorly developed and shallow. Overall, the ending is good but the movie overall is pretty bad. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Red-Barracuda There seems to be a lot of cheap marine-based monster movies. I don't exactly know why this is the case but these flicks are rarely anything other than mediocre at best. Octopus is one of the ones from the lower reaches of this scale. It does that thing that most of these films do where you have two concurrent stories happening at the same time. One involves the monster and the other involves a conflict of some sort between good guys and bad guys. This formula is rolled out continually for some reason, maybe it's so that the film can function as a horror/sci-fi film as well as an action/thriller, thereby attracting more people to it. But, the thing is, is that a film called 'Octopus' should really be primarily about a, well, an octopus really. This film, like many of its ilk, sort of forgets about the title creature for too much of the running time and focuses on the other action/thriller plot strand. This is almost always a mistake, and means that these films don't end up delivering what they essentially promise.Octopus is mostly set in a submarine. What I have learned from unfortunate experience is that almost all cheap movies set in a submarine are terrible. The confines of the sub make for dreary and boring scenes. This film is absolutely no different on this score. In actual fact the opening moments on land involving the terrorist attack are verging on being quite good but once we are under water things rapidly worsen. The title monster does eventually pitch up but as you could reasonably expect, he is a creature of bad CGI origins. You really don't see much more usually than a few tentacles and repeated shots. He does seem to change size at will as well so that by the end he is large enough to engulf a cruise ship. This finale, despite being pretty poor is at least the sort of thing you expected to see from the outset, so it's basically OK. But for the rest of it, it consists of not very interesting events surrounding an incredibly annoying terrorist who the heroes, for some unfathomably reason, never actually choose to shoot in the head. Which would have been the correct decision for everyone, viewers included.There is not an awful lot to recommend in Octopus to be perfectly honest. Although if you have seen a few of these types of movies from either the Sci-Fi Channel or The Asylum then you will no doubt not be in the least bit surprised with the contents of this one. It's yet another typical example of this sort of undersea monster dreck I'm afraid. Not enough schlock, too much tedium, sadly.

Ismaninb As I am certainly not a monster movie fanatics I greatly enjoyed Octopus. What to do if the budget is too low for all the necessary special effects? Simple, make deliberately a goofy B-movie. The acting is pretty good and the characters are as stereotypal as they should be, without the exaggeration so typical for Hot Shots etcetera. The dialogues are funny and what's more, all placed at exactly the wrong moments. The plot holes are as big as the crater of a volcano. And, greatest joke of all, the hero does not get the heroin! Actually that very last scene convinced me Octopus is a nice little spoof and quite a subtle one indeed, regarding the negative reviews here. So our afraid-to-shoot Not-So-Special-Agent Roy Turner kills the beast and what does our heroin do? Passionately kissing Captain Jack Shaw. The last shot is of a helpless jealous lover swimming in the sea trying to protest. This is a stroke of genius, really. Believe me, there is much more. The chase scene where security agent Henry runs after our terrorist - mad evil completely over the top - after telling Turner to stay behind him, in slow motion, is also great. Really, they did it by purpose, or at least the director did after having read the script. Look at it as a spoof and you will have fun. Also watch out for octopussy tearing the chopper down! Trust me, after 30 years or so this one is a cult classic among movie addicts with a certain sense of humour.