Project Terrible: FEROCIOUS PLANET

Thanks to Robert from Gaming Creatively for giving me something remotely enjoyable. I really regret that I gave him the supercrappy "Night Fright"...

FEROCIOUS PLANET

Alternate Title:
The Other Side

USA, 2011
Director: Billy O'Brien

3,5/10

The bad thing about "Ferocious Planet": it's a SyFy-produced TV movie.

The good thing: it's not as bad as I expected.

"Ferocious Planet" is basically a cheap full length version of some mediocre "Sliders"-episode: a few people accidentally got transported into a parallel dimension where there's only trees, plants and carnivorous dinosaur-monsters. End of plot.

 

The movie looks low-budget as hell and is packed with average SyFy-CGI (awful-looking monsters, awful CG blood and other awful effects). The script is weak and extremely predictable, the pacing is rotten, every single character is an idiot and the soundtrack is lame.

Worst of all: this was directed by Billy O'Brien, the guy behind the enjoyable 2006 monster movie "Isolation", who seemingly threw away all of his talent and sold his soul to SyFy.

At least, most of the actors do a fairly good job (John Rhys-Davies, Joe Flanigan), there are lots of really funny dialogue and one-liners ("Don't poke the alien!"), a few scenes are surprisingly pretty thrilling and the twist at the end is quite cool.

Final verdict: it's a SyFy-movie and should be watched only if you love cheesy CGI creatures or if you have nothing else to do.

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