The Relic
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Movie Reviews of The Relic
Movie Review: Grade A Monster Flick
Summary: 5 Stars
As the grand-opening of a new museum exhibit approaches, corpses are turning up in its labyrinthine halls with their brains missing.
This may well be the perfect monster movie: Talented cast that's actually well-utilized, playing likeable or suitably annoying characters, briskly paced build-up towards the climax, some truly suspenseful moments and great sets and FX.
Unlike many of the reviewers here, I saw the movie long before I read the book, so was able to view it much more objectively. I don't know if this would have been possible had I read the book first, as there is one glaringly drastic change made to the storyline for the movie: the omission of what is probably THE major character! The book is the first in a series about FBI agent Pendergast. Imagine Kyle Mclaughlan's amazingly capable and geekily eccentric FBI agent Cooper from the TV show "Twin Peaks" as an albino with a southern accent!
It would have been fun to see a film director's take on that character. But I think of this movie as a stand-alone film (which is probably why Pedgergast was written out of the script; at the time the movie was made, I don't believe there were any other Pendergast novels written yet, and he may have seemed too bizarre a character for a typical audience to believe in while they were already trying to believe in a monster) while I continue to enjoy the Pendgergast novels separately.
Movie Review: Relic
Summary: 4 Stars
Relic is a very good monster film with good special effects, good acting, good script, fine score, and enhanced for 16:9 TVs. My negative comments are: 1) picture isn't very sharp on the DVD, 2) picture is too dark.Movie Review: Relic
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is for my collection of scifi and horror flics. Good special effects and story line. Movie Review: Terrific movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this one. Great to watch. One of my favorites.
Thank you Rainey
Movie Review: Not at all like the book or a good monster movie
Summary: 1 Stars
If your a fan of Preston & child skip this movie. Its an insult to their work. That being said- it might have been a good monster movie if it was made thirty years ago.