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The Relic

1997

Peter Hyams

Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore ...

4.6

7,010

Horror. Mystery Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts from a colleague performing fieldwork in Brazil. Among the contents are leaves containing a rare fungus that, unknown to Green or anyone else, attracts the palate of a rapidly mutating, lizard-like monster called Kothoga that has stowed away on a Brazilian freighter and has found a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Yes, we've seen it all before. But The Relic proves that the hoariest cliches, when stirred together with enough money, shaken vigorously and artfully lighted, can still make the adrenaline surge"	POS
United States	John Anderson Los Angeles Times	"Hyams the director operates at too much of a fevered pitch for things not to eventually get out of hand -- accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"All of this is actually a lot of fun, if you like special effects and gore."	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"If you can stagger around the plot holes, the last 30 minutes are pure, dumb monster-movie fun"	NEU
United States	Emanuel Levy Variety	"his strikingly proficient production boasts genuinely scary thrills and first-rate visual and creature effects."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"There are moments when The Relic is almost enjoyable (...) Unfortunately, when all is said and done, this horror/science fiction amalgamation seems like nothing more ambitious than a bad reworking of elements from Aliens"	NEU

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