Sabretooth

2002 "Be prepared to be ripped apart!"
3.4| 1h30m| R| en
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Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
DigitalRevenantX7 A genetically-engineered sabretooth tiger, created to prove the viability of cloning human organs for medical research, gets freed when the truck carrying it crashes into a Californian park. The woman who created it & her boss decide to hire Thatcher, a hunter who has experience with big cats, to capture it, but tell him that he's hunting an African lion. Together they head off to track down & hopefully capture the tiger. But while they are tracking it, the sabretooth has some tracking of its own prey – a group of campers on a training course in the wilderness.James D. R. Hickox (who does a cameo in the film as a silent hillbilly playing cards) is a director who is the youngest son of Douglas Hickox, the director of the Vincent Price classic THEATRE OF BLOOD & the younger brother of Anthony Hickox of HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH fame. James has followed his father & brother into the directing business & seems to specialise in B-grade monster flicks.Sabretooth is a most unusual JAWS knockoff. For one, it has a unique monster – a sabretooth tiger cloned for medical research. Sabretooth tigers (think Diego from the Ice Age films) lived & died out something like 10,000 years ago. They were known as exceptional killers & had teeth that were at least a foot long. I went into Sabretooth expecting a silly monster flick like the director's previous film, the monster crocodile film BLOOD SURF, which I have previewed recently. Well, it was silly at times but was a considerably better film than Blood Surf. James is improving his skill at this sort of thing.Sabretooth is not anything close to being a classic film but is an enjoyably silly & passable monster flick. The sabretooth is realised by close-up animatronic head & laughably mediocre CGI. The exercise is conducted in poker-face seriousness, which makes the antics on screen even more hilarious. Not just that, but the acting is good, with input from David Keith as the chisel-jawed hero of the piece & the legendary John Rhys-Davies, who has starred in classics like the Indiana Jones films & the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as numerous B-grade action & genre films like CYBORG COP to give an example. Speaking of Cyborg Cop, another of that film's actors makes an appearance in this one – Todd Jensen, who played one of the cyborgs in Cyborg Cop, does a cameo as a horny guy who gets ripped apart by the sabretooth through his front door. And it's quite hard to hate a film where a guy takes on the sabretooth in melee combat armed with a pair of knives. Hilariously silly monster hokum.
wolfmun I need a pleistocene pooper-scooper. This movie is flat-out awful on nearly every conceivable level: Script, acting, effects, believability, story etc...You may find yourself rooting for the poorly cg'ed sabretooth cat; hoping he'll kill again in order to stem the seemingly endless tide of awful dialog.I am sure that if the cat coulda talked, he'd have said "exit, stage left, for our careers, even" but alas...no such luck. It has been many years since I have seen a movie this bad.I wanted to give this a 0.5 because a 1 is a bit generous!
annatrope I'm hopelessly addicted to the "Bwana-Bwana" movie genre, which is why I stayed tuned despite the cliché Characters, gawdoffal CGI, and outworn ("Human Greed + Quirky Science = Disaster") Premise.The allusions to the 1996 Big-Screen Thriller, "The Ghost and the Darkness" are unmistakable. The Big Game Hunter is even dressed up to resemble Michael Douglas' "Remington" character. The cave two of the teens explore by torchlight may remind you of the Tsavo Lions' (far spookier) Den, investigated by Douglas and Val Kilmer. The final showdown echoes the sequence in which Kilmer and John Kani together take on the second of the twin Man-Eaters.As a horror movie, this sucked. (What, nobody goes up and --stupidly -- pokes the "carcass" at the end?? ) As an "Adventure" film this could actually have been a "Contender"
James Prine What is it with SciFi, when they produce films as bad as this? Why not concentrate on creating a decent movie for a change, instead of putting out a string of badly-written, badly-acted, illogical, even stupid, CGI crapfests like this one? The director and writer of this BOMB seemingly have nothing but contempt for the intelligence of the audience; the actions of the characters and their dialogue might be clever and entrancing to 6-year-olds, but for everyone else, AVOID THIS SCREAMING TURKEY, which is almost as bad as that other CGI nightmare "Blue Demon"...a film even Ed Wood would have been ashamed to be affiliated with.There is no need to go into detail regarding this particular farce; just remember every stupid, low-budget, idiotic, horrible film you've ever seen, and you have a good idea of how bad this thing is; the writer and director and most of the actors should be forced to eat their own intestines while viewing it, particularly the Rambo-type who gets his at the entrance to the mine.The only reason I could not give a lower rating to this BOMB is because no negative numbers were available.AVOID THIS FILM UNLESS YOU ARE A HARDENED MASOCHIST!