SoTrumpBelieve
Must See Movie...
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
ICMooVees
Caught this on a snow day, thought the title would lead to something. Wrong...no value whatsoever. Lots of implied suspense in a deep jungle with blue lighting and fog trying to create a "we are the hunted" environment. Even trying to create a "Predator" thrill by showing "bloodmonkey" pursuit vision perspective. One good scene is when the professor gets impaled by a trap rigged by the thoughtful "bloodmonkey". It was good to see him exit the movie by having a few tree limbs impaled through his body as he gurgled his last while the two screamy girls watch in horror. No monkeys and sketchy acting. Total waste of time. Don't waste yours.
TheLittleSongbird
To be honest I wasn't expecting much from the production values or the story, but was expecting an actor of F Murray Abraham's calibre to maintain some interest. And actually, while the character and writing is beneath him( we are here talking about someone who in Amadeus gave one of the finest male performances I have seen on film), Abraham is by far the best thing about Blood Monkey, he does deserve credit for bringing some dignity to his performance. The other actors don't match him however, pretty-looking of course but they don't do anything beyond that, even being genuinely concerned about what was happening. They are not helped by their characters, which are not just stereotypical but made to do annoying things that you don't care for them one bit. The dialogue is very cheesy, while the story is increasingly dull and repetitive. The gore is minimal and pretty fake in look with the scenes they feature in unscary and suspense-less, while the effects are terrible and further cheapened by some of the most unfocused camera work and editing of any movies of this genre. Overall, other than Abraham Blood Monkey was an ugly, repetitive, annoying and very un-atmospheric mess. 2/10 Bethany Cox
swedzin
Funny, lame and stupid! Nothing to say more about this dreadful film about some college students traveling to the woods of Thailand to discover a new species of large ape and what CGI ape that was!!! All the students were impossible!! Some of them are annoying some of them were boring, and for God's sake... these actors, were really annoying with their British accent, they just couldn't perform it like real British actors, these didn't have a proper acting training, sweet Jesus! Unknown Z actors, leaded by... by... once a great A actor, and he is still great, but poor hell, how the hell he ended up here...? F. Murray Abraham, why?! How come that you ended up in this pyle of monkey turd!? He tried, he tried to give us some performance of eccentric, crazy primate scientist, but with his British accent, the entire fuc*king movie was about competition "Who Has the Best British Accent"... oh... for the... A real mess, real mess... If you see it in the video store... skip it and take the next stupid film. This one is not worth of your time.
maxim3
Is it beyond the realm of possibility that there may be more than one Robert Young? You are correct in the fact that Robert Young is not listed in the cast - however, he is the director of the film. No, Robert Young did not come back from the dead to direct it, there are actually 18 Robert Young's listed in IMDb. I do have to say that this review section proved to be more exciting than the film. xminusone, please , before railing somebody else's opinion, do your due diligence by at least reading some of the credits first. Nice review Richard! Keep up the good work. F Murray Abraham's performance is well done, but that is to be expected. I have to agree that this film seems to be one step above the usual Sci Fi junk (ie anything starring Lorenzo Lamas).
