After seeing The Terror Beneath(or Seeds of Destruction), I was really not sure what to rate it or even to make of it. In the end, I thought it was not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, and had a lot of faults, but better than a lot of other movies I have seen on the SyFy Channel, which range from moderately entertaining to awful beyond description. The effects are quite decent, especially for a SyFy original, the scenery is very nice and the acting is better than average. Although the premise is pretty ridiculous, basically part-Jurassic Park/part-The Happening/part-50s Monsters movie with plants and biblical references, the story was at least interesting a vast majority of the time.
Though I have to say there are still the typical suspend disbelief moments that you'd expect from SyFy especially the idea for someone to be shot on the outside of the helicopter and yet the helicopter itself would have no bullet holes, as well as overly-silly parts like the tentacle-like-roots repeatedly grabbing people and often for no reason. For my liking there are one too many Biblical references, the dialogue is cheesy and some of it reads of "this story in the Bible actually did happen", and the characters here are again no different from the stereotypes in other SyFy movies. The music in my opinion is also forgettable and too much of a slow tempo at times, making The Terror Beneath sluggish at times.
In conclusion, a very difficult movie to rate. A good movie? No. A terrible movie? Again no. A tolerable movie? Yes. One I'd see again? Probably not. 5/10 Bethany Cox
Though I have to say there are still the typical suspend disbelief moments that you'd expect from SyFy especially the idea for someone to be shot on the outside of the helicopter and yet the helicopter itself would have no bullet holes, as well as overly-silly parts like the tentacle-like-roots repeatedly grabbing people and often for no reason. For my liking there are one too many Biblical references, the dialogue is cheesy and some of it reads of "this story in the Bible actually did happen", and the characters here are again no different from the stereotypes in other SyFy movies. The music in my opinion is also forgettable and too much of a slow tempo at times, making The Terror Beneath sluggish at times.
In conclusion, a very difficult movie to rate. A good movie? No. A terrible movie? Again no. A tolerable movie? Yes. One I'd see again? Probably not. 5/10 Bethany Cox