Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Absolutely Fantastic

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This contains a minor spoiler, a reveal about a character which will come as no surprise anyway. But now you've been warned.I saw this horror film last night, and just found it to be amazingly inept. Even Lance Henriksen, who is an awesome genre player, could not save it.Very traditional setup of a group of people going to a remote place, to fetch something valuable. Very traditional cast of.. The experienced outdoors-man/guide. The adventurer author, who turns out to be a useless alcoholic. The rich man who pays for the expedition and turns out to have a hidden agenda. The woman who turns out to be more resourceful than we initially thought. The other woman, who didn't really have a function for the story, so why was she there? And the nerdy expert who knows how to operate the tech thingamajig they're looking for. The tech thingy is not a Hitchcockian mcguffin, it actually has a function for the story, so points for that.Oh, and there's a monster, which looks surprisingly good for a film that otherwise doesn't seem to even try. While watching, I was thinking that this should have been made in the 1950s. Then it might have some of that B-movie charm of those sloppy adventure-monster movies from that era. Bride of the Gorilla (1951), just to name one which is not good, but somewhat saved by the style of that era. As is, The Untold just creaks along, really predictable, bad performances, uninteresting dialog. You very quickly stop caring about all of it. The editing attempts to spice things up, but somehow ends up being lame and annoying instead.This one really has nothing to offer. Don't even watch it if you're a fan of Lance Henriksen. Being the consummate pro he is, he does a fine job of delivering his lines, and he makes you believe in his character. But that doesn't lift the film up from being intensely uninteresting. Skip it.I give it two stars for a passable monster, a functioning mcguffin, and Lance Henriksen. Take my word, it's not worth your time.

Sasquatch (2002) * (out of 4) A plane crashes into the Northwestern mountains but after the search is called off one of the victim's rich CEO father (Lance Henriksen) puts together a search team. The team heads off into the mountains to look for the plane as well as a few secret items but soon run into the title creature. I really love watching Bigfoot movies of all types but this one here is probably the worst one I've seen. This film was originally known as The Untold but no matter the title this one is a real stinker. There are countless issues with this film but the most annoying item is the really bad editing, which also features countless fade to black sequences, which get tiresome very quickly. Another issue are the point of view shots of Bigfoot, which are nothing more than the screen going to various colors. I could mention the bad acting, weak story or poor Bigfoot outfit but all of this is to be expected. Even Henriksen comes off looking very bored and bland. This film is apparently based on a true story where a group went out looking for a plane and when they returned they said many members were lost to a Sasquatch attack. That angle of the story might have been a lot more interesting in the right hands but this film just kills any attempt at a good movie.

I think that this is one of my top ten worst movies I have ever seen! There's like fade out every two minutes. If this was on TV, they would have a preview every 2-3 minutes. But there is a seen I personally enjoyed: which is when the blonde goes to take a bath in a pit of boiling water with a man watching and for about 10 seconds you see her whole body with no towel on! That was the best scene in the whole film because you see sasquatch starring at them but the last 10 minutes is when we see his whole body. Plus, most of the deaths are off screen and just the scream or roar. And I was expecting the Sasquatch to die. But he dosen't shoot him and only 4 or 5 people die in the whole film I was expecting 8-10 people to die. Don't watch this movie. I give it an F-. Don't waste your time.

(r#64)Unredeemable, merit-less, and above all dreary trash. You know a movie is going to be bad when its sole star power is Lance Henriksen. The French title for this movie says it all: "Inexplicable". How can you possibly make a movie this unbelievably bad in this day and age? Whatever Jonas Quastel's trick is, it worked. This is über-trash, I'm talking 'Manos'-level crap, meaningless, unwatchable, not-even-so-bad-it's-good, cinematic bile of the highest order.Lance Henriksen IS Harlan Knowles, a character who could have been interesting if he wasn't so utterly devoid of characteristics or personality. He, along with a bunch of morons, goes on a field trip to search for an evil Sasquatch which is believed to have attacked a plane which crashed out in the woods, or something. Not much else happens. There's some soft-core (meaning: Teletubbie level) nudity and some blatant rip-offs of "Predator". After 92 minutes of utter pain and another ripped off scene, this time from "Blair Witch", the movie finally staggers across the finish line and ends. As a bonus, we only see the monster itself for about one or two scenes in the entire movie.There's really not much to say about this film. All you need to know is, this is a very bad movie and not even worth viewing as a "so-bad-it's-good" flick. "The Untold" is to entertainment value what Orlando Bloom is to character acting. Avoid it like arsenic.