Beneath Loch Ness
July. 06,2001 PG-13A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
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Redundant and unnecessary.
Pretty Good
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
BENEATH LOCH NESS is an attempt to tell a Scottish-set story when in reality the film was made in California. Just consider that for a moment. Sunny, sun-drenched California, which looks nothing like windy and rainy Scotland. A cast populated by actors attempting to pull of Scottish accents. As you might have guessed, this is laughable stuff indeed, and a complete non-starter of a movie. A pity given that it's the first Loch Ness-themed film I've watched.For a monster flick this is also poor insofar as it contains barely any monster action. Most of the narrative is filled up with petty politics and rivalry and there are just a few murky underwater shots of supposed monster hunting. I suppose the writers should be praised for constructing a character-focused storyline due to the hampered budget, but when the performances are this poor the whole thing feels like a massive time waste.A chunky Patrick Bergin, unrecognisable from earlier in his career, is the stolid hero who fails to lift the interest. An equally bulky Vernon Wells, one of my favourite villainous performers of the 1980s, attempts a halfway-decent Scottish accent and that's about it. It pains me to say it that the worst acting comes from Lysette Anthony whose wooden style of performing is jaw-droppingly bad. It comes as little surprise to see her talents have migrated to TV's HOLLYOAKS in recent years.
Bad movies are always best when the director, writer or *somebody* connected to the production feels they have "something to say", or when the filmmakers believe they're making a better movie than they are. Failing that bad movies can be enjoyable by being either goofy and fun or outrageous and eccentric.This movie, unfortunately, is none of those things. Everyone involved seems to have had a pretty good idea that they were just punching a clock to fill an hour and a half on the sci-fi channel or something. The "best" part is the badly aged (and poorly done even for a decade ago) CGI, but there's not enough of that to salvage it. Don't waste your time on this turkey.
This is one of the worst movies ever, Ms Anthony and Mr Bergin should know better but must have been desperate!! The accents are a total laugh, the insults to the Scots are many and most would be insulted beyond belief.......the errors are outstanding and laughable and the yanks win the day again (yawn!!!) Total tripe!!!!! is there was a rating as 0 I would have given it. I wonder why movie makers indulge in this sort of dribble, they are obviously not going to make enough money from it unless they are selling it to morons!!! I would imagine it damages the credibility of all involved, most especially the actors and director....cant see anyone queuing up to employ them after this!!!
How could we write a movie about America that is as insulting to Americans as this film is to Scots and the entire UK?The fact is we couldn't.It is clear from Comiskys diabolical stereotyping of Scots and his ignorant depictions of Scotland and the UK that nobody could be this stupid.What was the underlying theme to this Movie?From what I saw of this garbage film, I can only conclude that this was a manifest orgy of hate filled propaganda against Scotland and the UK, perpetrated by Comisky for an agenda that is best known to himself, tenuously alibied by the wooden acting, the incredulous plagiarist butchery of other movies plots, the pathetic script writing, the ridiculous discontinuity and last but not least Comiskys own deliberate ineptness as a director.This was not so much a movie that was made badly, as a very successful character assassination of an entire Nation.It comes as no surprise that following this "Chuck" (Is that supposed to be short for Charles?) directed nothing else, no doubt having been deluged by complaints the studio had him painting scenery or fetching coffee for less hate filled and infinitely more accomplished directors.