The Thing Reviews

Movie Reviews

• tries to get by mostly on some decent creature-effects work

  by Ian Buckwalter [NPR ]

• the characters here lack in personality and the actors aren't doing much more than going through the motions

  Review rate : C+ by Brad Brevet [Rope of Silicon ]

• still doesn't deliver much more than the odd jolt or provoke any praise

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• special effects quickly devolve into over-the-top goriness

  by Jim Vejvoda [IGN Movies ]

• shock to the system, because no one had blended horror and science fiction like that before

  by Peter Hartlaub [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• script is just plain weak, with moments of embarrassingly bad dialogue

  by Bruce Demara [Toronto Star ]

• replay unfolds as mechanistically as a video game

  by Jeannette Catsoulis [New York Times ]

• no one bothers to ask for help, lest the team lose credit for the find

  by Scott Bowles [USA Today ]

• its power could be countered only by humor and the comfort of camaraderie

  by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies ]

• invades bodies and pretends to be human until it breaks out in gory splendor

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• forces the filmmakers into a position they can't possibly win-leaving the door open for a sequel

  by Kevin Jagernauth [indieWIRE ]

• chests burst, entrails twist and snap like cracked whips, and bodies morph into spidery monsters

  by Rob Nelson [Variety ]

• certainly not the worst alien movie you'll ever see

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• a film going through the motions, albeit with some of those motions being very entertaining

  by Thomas Caldwell [Cinema Autopsy ]

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