GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Executscan Expected more

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

D M Contrary to the impression from the ratings, this is an enjoyable film to settle down to. It's not top notch at all, but it's not bad either. If you don't mind the premise of a vast monster living in a mountain, give it a try.

Lance Bradford Have to watch this one... it gets funny...Professors daughter taking a camping trip with metro-sexual guy who has the lowest testosterone level in recorded history... and as we watch her snivel and whine all the way up the hill... when he reaches out to support her emotionally... she tells him to be quiet the rest of the way... DID SHE REALLY JUST PUT HIM ON A TIME OUT??? Looks like quiet time for him... The question is.. does he ever make it back down the hill... and do you think he should have let her out and driven back down the hill at the occurrence of her first temper tantrum...What about the professor who we find living evenings in the local diner because his supposedly supportive daughter, we find chasing her tail around town instead of feeding Dad at home. Although the Professor seems to have his own pedophile predilections culminating towards the end of the movie where we discover yet another find example of modern woman represented in ZOEY... a short little hot bodied dingbat we ponder how she could keep 2 orders straight or her job at the diner... till that one overhead down her top selfie is displayed, where we discover the professor with his arms around her in comfort ( shouldn't we all be comforting her )peering down her top...Seriously... this is a must see... Why when everyone is in the helicopter is the man wearing the flight helmet AND NOT THE WOMAN PILOT... He was last go get in.... So many moments in this show make you want to back it up to see those moments again... in dis belief.. I would call this a must see...Gloria Allred may well find contention and grounds for a few Civil Suits based social relevance... But after all... not every movie is an academy award winner...

TheLittleSongbird As I have said, many times, I do dislike intensely a vast majority of SyFy's output save a few exceptions, though I do watch them to see if there are some at least decent films among the sea of crud. Behemoth is not down there with SyFy's worst, not with Quantum Apocalypse, Alien vs. Hunter, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Moby Dick: 2010 and Titanic II.What does salvage the movie from being bottom-of-the-barrel quality like the aforementioned titles are the surprisingly good CGI effects, when I finally saw the monster fully I was surprised at how good it looked compared to other effects I've seen on the channel. Also William B. Davis while not outstanding gives a noteworthy performance.Everything else didn't engage sadly. The settings were okay, but the haphazard editing and rather dim lighting prevented me from properly enjoying. The story is rather plodding, very predictable and by-the-numbers, with any thrills, suspense and tension feeling somewhat tame and only the ending properly exciting.The script is banal and as plodding as the story. The beginning especially is full of overlong and sometimes meaningless exposition. The direction is often unfocused too, the sound is lacking in clarity even in crucial scenes and the music to me was forgettable at best.The characters are lifeless, clichéd and none of the characters emotionally resonated with me in any way. This is not just the script and expositions, but the dull acting also plays a major factor in this. Davis as far as I was concerned was the only one who tried, everyone looked bored and were phoning in.Overall, SyFy has done worse but I don't recommend Behemoth. 3/10 Bethany Cox

johannes2000-1 When it concerns sci-fi and horror movies I'm perfectly willing to accept some stretching of the limits of credibility, as long as it serves a good and solid story that's delivered in an entertaining and convincing way. In this case unfortunately even my out-stretched limits were over-stepped. That's mainly due to an idiotic premise, a bad script, equally bad direction and special effects (the most important aspect of every sci-fi!) of a deplorable quality. That the acting was over-all surprisingly good just couldn't save this one anymore.Okay, this is what it's all about. Lurking under our feet is a giant (and I mean: GIANT, in a global sense of the word) mythical monster, that resides there for like millions of years, but at the start of the movie decides to pop up to punish the world-populace for it's faults (i.e. the systematic neglect of the environment and the killing of each other, etcetera). Is it god-sent? Or some demon? The movie never explains, apart from some fuzzy reference to old Indian tales. In fact some googling will learn you that the term Behemoth refers to a biblical land-creature (as opposed to Leviathan, the sea-creature), that's supposed to have the shape of a hippopotamus and served as an awesome proof of God's creational abilities (and didn't necessarily was a bad-assed monster). Well, one can understand that the idea of a giant monster-hippo even went too far for the makers of this movie, but why then still use the name Behemoth? Anyway, here we are with Behemoth. It reveals itself at first by terrible earthquakes and tsunami's all over the world. So we are supposed to believe that it stretches it's body out under the entire surface of the earth. How unimaginably big should such a creature be? When it at last pops up in this little American town in the middle of nowhere (why didn't it choose a densely populated town like New York or London, to create at least some bigger havoc?), we see it: first a few tentacles with the width of say a sewer-pipe, then a staring eye as big as a round garden-trampoline, then at last the terrible monster itself, sitting on top of the burst-open mountain, and indeed it's big, like maybe some hundreds of feet high and tentacles that stretch for many miles around him. But GLOBALLY big?!? Is this big enough to cause earthquakes at the other side of the globe? Can this overblown octopus cause the destruction of all mankind and the whole wide world?? How? It just sits there glued to the mountain, flapping it's tentacles and roaring through it's wide opened jaws. Will it smash or swallow all the 7 billion people on earth one by one?? Roar them to death?? It's utterly unbelievable and plain silly. Okay, the CGI-picture of the beast is nice, with some Lovecraftian traits, but it never ever creates any sense of the supposed apocalyptic doom or terror.In the meantime the terrible truth slowly dawns on everyone in the little village (especially the hero and heroine of the story, two scientists that used to date, broke up and now in the face of the apocalypse find each other again) and makes them run around in a frenzy, preferably TOWARDS the mountain in stead of away FROM the mountain. But rescue is near: a mysterious government-guy strolls through the woods on the mountain with a big box that contains the ultimate weapon to kill this beast. How come? How did the government know? Why didn't they evacuate the area or state beforehand? Why send just ONE man without any back-up and instruct him to be as mysteriously as possible, as to avoid that anyone else could timely be warned? We never hear any explanation. You would think the box contains some awesome sci-fi device. Instead it's some sort of pimped bazooka. With just one piece of ammunition. Why the hell would the government play cheap when the future of the whole world is at stake?! Couldn't they have put like 10 or a 100 bullets in the box, just to be safe? Anyway: our local hero (in the meantime the governmental guy has passed-over the instructions with his dying breath) has only one chance to kill the beast and he decides that he has to shoot the beast in it's mouth. Everyone tries to give the impression that this is extremely hard to do, but the beast conveniently gives an over-long roar, keeping it's mouth wide open for ever, and since it never even ducks away (stuck to it's mountain-top as it seems to be), the bullet hits the target and the beast explodes. End of story. In short: the world has faced it's total destruction but with the blow of just one simple bullet everything is back to normal. Thanks to our vigilant government. After seeing this movie I immediately slept better (or could it possibly have been from being bored too much?).