Sorry, this movie sucks

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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.

SPOILER ALERT***** SERIOUSLY ITS WORTH A WATCH ITS SO BAD ITS AMAZINGSure it's a terrible movie but I watched this on AMC during the October fright fest. I can say watching this brightened my mood immensely. The Movie being actually so bad that it deserves a 10/10 review. I think they were originally trying to make a good movie but realized it wasn't half way through and said screw it. The CGI is laughable. and the part where the cheerleader girl got picked up and dragged away was as funny as this movie is bad. The creators had to be joking when the stereo-typical black guy brought out his second knife to sword fight the teeth of the tiger. while his white "friends" *(in quotes for a reason)* wait to watch him die rather than run away like he told them to do. It's great just watch it.

(There are Spoilers) Your usual monster from the past coming to a theater, or DVD outlet, near you with a ferocious 500 plus pound saber-tooth tiger-minus its stripes-being brought back to life via DNA genetic engineering. The two persons responsible for the saber-tooth's resurrection multi-millionaire and presidential hopeful, or so he hopes, Anthony Bricklin, John Rhys-Davis, and his lover and assistant DNA and genetic engineer Catherine Vicly, Venessa Angel, have no idea in what a Frankenstein, or Tony the Tiger, monster they created until it was too late.With the saber-tooth escaping from his confinement, when the truck that he was caged in overturned, he goes straight into he wilds of the Nortern California mountains and runs into this troop of outdoor guides lead by the beautiful and well built, she has to be in tip top shape for the job she's doing, Casey Balenger, Jenna Gering. Wanting to take the big cat alive both Catherine and Brickin get big game hunter Bob Thatcher, David Keith, to hunt the killer feline down but a with a tranquilizer, not a super elephant, gun.The killer cat using his superior sense of smell and hunting ability has no trouble at all finding his prey, which seems to be exclusively humans, and in no time at all almost wipes out and eats the entire cast in the movie. Thatcher who's about the only person in the film who has a chance to bring down the saber-tooth is handicapped by both Catherine and Bricklin who want the beast to be taken alive not dead in order to get both rich and farther their careers in politics and science. Bricklin feels the cat, with the money he gets from exhibiting it, will get him elected president and Catherine, in her creating it out of 10,000 year old DNA matter, the Nobel Prize in biological research. The only thing these two deluded lunatics end up getting is having themselves served up as the big cat's lunch and dinner!***SPOILERS*** Not as bad at it at first seemed with the killer cat after being practically invisible, we only get to see glimpse of him, for almost the entire film coming out into the open and really doing a number, with his foot long canines, on everyone that he both runs and bites into. Thatcher despite his best efforts as a big game hunter is stymied by both Bricklin & Catherine, in bringing the big cat down, who want to prevent him from doing his job not knowing, or even caring, that if he did they would live to see the end of the movie. It was Thatcher who finally put this indestructible killer away not with the modern and sophisticated weapons that he had at his disposal but with what the cave man used to both fend it off and kill it some 10,000 years ago!

Okay, this is about a modern day saber-tooth, who looks really strange, eating people in the woods. It is a formula movie, and the disappointing aspects are that it probably took more than a few hours to film this (even though you should be able to do it in a few hours), and name star Davies wastes himself here. You expect more with him in it.There are more than a few stereotypes. It is hard to say the actors acted. Not their fault. The roles were pretty one dimensional.Lot of silliness. The characters aren't much, but I've seen much worse. It is watchable, but not memorable.