Too much of everything

Fantastic!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A film so stupid there are no monkeys in sight. There are apes, which look like your average CGI gorillas. That is to say, not too impressive. Just use people in suits if they are average sized gorillas. The film has a cast of annoying characters, from the whiny monkey fodder, to ACADEMY AWARD WINNING F. Murray Abraham pretty much screaming "I'm a psychopath". It's annoying and confusing, especially the urinating scene. The monkey/apes/whatevers are disappointingly absent throughout the entire film. They manage to show up just in time for a five second shot, in a Blair Witch style ending. It's a shame the film forgot the monkeys and the fun.

Blood Monkey (2007)* 1/2 (out of 4)Yet another Creature Feature from the Sci-Fi Channel. This one here has six Americans going into the jungles of Africa where they meet up with Professor Hamilton (F. Murray Abraham). The Professor has been doing research on various monkeys and thinks he has discovered a location where extremely large ones live but soon when the group is on their land the creatures attack. The more of these films I watch the more certain I'm becoming that not much really changes from one to the next with the exception being whatever monster they decide to show. As usual we get the typical stereotypes going into the jungle and of course becoming victims. I don't mind these groups going to get slaughtered but I do wish that if the screenplay wants them to be smart and intelligent doctors or brain surgeons then the actors should at least make us believe these characters. As usual we got the idiots you'd expect to see in a film like this and of course they make one mistake after another and this eventually leads to their deaths. I think the biggest problem with this film is that it takes forever to get going. We get a pretty gory attack to start the film and then that's pretty much it for the next hour as we get to know our Americans as well as the doctor. We spend a hour getting to know them yet we really don't get to know anything about them because their "character development" is about as lame as some of the acting. It goes without saying but you really don't expect to see someone like Abraham in a movie like this but he appears to be giving it his all even though I'm sure he was just picking up a paycheck. I'll admit that seeing him come across this gory battlefield and just kicking body parts around made me laugh. The creature here is 100% CGI and looks terrible. I think a lot of people are going to be upset that the creature doesn't appear too often but then again, once you do see it you might want it to just stay away.

The Robert Young the reviewer is talking about is the director. He's listed as Robert Young (III) in the database - not the Robert Young you're talking about in your post.It's an understandable mistake.This movie was standard fair and hardly worth watching.I have no real review to make of the film. It's not worth making a review of the movie or watching the movie even if it's a rainy day and you have nothing to do. There should be a way of responding to comments without typing a lot of 'filler', but I don't know what it is. Sorry for posting all this,but it won't accept my response to 'xminusone' without a lot of words.

F. Murray Abraham pays the rent by lending his Oscar winning credibility to this routine creature feature. As a mad scientist type he joins an obligatory ensemble of bickering students as they wander around a forest in Thailand until its time for the creature to turn up. Its all very by-the-numbers and elderly film and TV veteran Robert Young keeps the quality reasonably high considering the limitations. Fans of the genre (a mainstay of the Sci-Fi Channel) will know what to expect, though this is of higher quality than many similar productions, but thats not saying much when a film displays not a single novel trait.