WARNING: Watching this movie may cause misery.
935356
Somebody please tell me how trash like this gets made? Oh, I forgot. It was produced by Beyonce. Note to Beyonce: Please stay out of the movie making business. At any rate, I will give the credit to a friend who picked this movie out on DVD. After watching about 30 minutes, I couldn't bare it anymore. Completely unoriginal, full of cliches, predictable, borrrring!
3170547
This is a Horrific, nasty, grisly, bloody and sadistic movie. The horrifying thing is that anyone  would want to  make it,  or  watch  it
4871912
WORST MOVIE EVER. I DIDN'T NEED TO CRY THAT MUCH. Someone should put a warning on this thing
1877212
Not even with someone elses d&$@. I have enjoyed unusual and haunting films with a message for decades but as hard as this film try's to be important it is nott worth the polymer it is printed on. Pointless, mind numbing, and a true example of the worst in cinematography, story, acting, editing and directing. If I am not being clear let me restate, this is two plus hours you can never get back and it will not leave you feeling empty or changed or thinking about deep subjects it will leave you angry you were duped into thinking this was entertainment or any other type of intellectual stimulation. Given a choice I would prefer two hours of male enhancement, feminine hygiene and anti depressant commercials. Please allow me to give you a personal gift by convincing you not to watch this train wreck of a film. You will thank me in the afterlife.
4879817
This is a movie that makes you look within our selves and hate what we have become.
3413099
SPOILER ALERT:  Do not watch this if you want an uplifting movie.  It basically says that people with disabilities do not have a life worth living.  It devalues every person's life who was born with health issues or disabilities.  Because your body isn't perfect you should not want to live?  No!  Life is precious!  I wish I had known what this movie was actually about before watching it.  I never would have wasted my time.  Suicide is not beautiful.
746554
Many other reviews have stressed the brilliance of this movie and the superb performances of Alec Guinness and John Mills. I would just like to add a caution. This is a painful, in fact agonizing movie, so do not watch it if you are looking for a film to cheer youself up with,
1150942
Nothing new here and certainly no entertainment value, unless you enjoy watching other people suffer.  This movie shows more like a documentary than a form of entertainment.

It is difficult if not impossible to understand all the four and five star ratings other reviewers gave this movie.

Yes, there are many sick and demented people out in the world and yes, today's' technology certainly has given birth to all sorts of twisted and mean behaviors due to the clandestine nature of electronic communication. But, really, are there that many people in the real world that haven't seen all of this reported over and over on the news and in the papers?

This movie takes the position that there is no hope. Neither the police nor our government can or will help. The banks and lenders will do nothing. There is no resolution for any of the characters in this movie and watching this movie you are only left with the question, "what is the point?".
3492631
Again a good movie has been issued on a lousy dvd.  Not only is the picture quality less than many vhs tapes, but they falsely advertise a full-length commentary by Kathleen Quinlan, the star, which is non-existant.  There is an interview with her, separate from the film.  This is a movie which deserves better, and this is just the rotten, greedy kind of job which is going to ruin the dvd industry eventually.  How the morons who take part in this sort of product can live with themselves is above and beyond me.
2339560
I feel sorry for Kurt to play in such a bad movie. If anyone watches this movie and gets half way through and wonders if it's going to get any better...WRONG!! You just seen the best part. You will never get that time back. It has to be pretty bad for me to feel the need to warn others.
759117
This movie is Extremely Raw and Graphic with a disturbing rape scene. If you are going to watch it please be cautioned that it's startling. I wish I could unsee the movie.

unnecessary
4278113
I recommend saving your $ and not buying or renting this gross, juvenile, degenerate film. Wait instead until you are taken hostage by a perverted gang of terrorists who subject you to torture by making you watch it. Even then see if they will let you opt for having your eyeballs gouged out with a spoon. How they got so many big names ( before this move I might have referred to them a major talents) to participate in this atrocity is beyond me. I can only assume that there is some sort of blackmail or mind control involved.
4166220
Unfortunately Amazon.com reviews don't have the ability to select minus stars, if so; I would rate this movie as a minus five.

This so-called `movie', after entering the theater, is compulsory verbal pornography (to be polite). The `R' rating of this should be `XXX' (or higher).

The visual pornography is massive but somewhat less than the verbal sewage spewed over the audience.

The script is of the quality of a high school dropout who flunked English because of inability to produce educated verbiage (that could accomplish the same thing as the verbal sewage in this juvenile movie) but was paid by a financial donor to insult and degrade humanity.

It did have a Friend story line - at least something of value. The world ending, per biblical Revelation, was at another least something of a plot (the most of the evil monsters having their privates visually displayed (a classy movie enhancement!)). The one, where out of the blue, for no particular reason, a monster somehow gets into the safe house, without being noticed, with an visibly enlarged reproductive organ, somehow impregnates the male Jonah (a brilliant realism).

Direct, and by innuendo, male sexual activities `must be propelled upon!' audiences by lowly evolved juvenile male movie characters. I am not a woman but can imagine a woman of reasonable intelligence would think of this piece of Hollywood trash demeaning to them as well.

More audience pounding is the drug use, another Hollywood social enhancement for younger adults, viewing this abject refuse. An enrichment society needs in Hollywood's continuing downward spiral - thank you!

If those, in the audience, were in high school, or a tiny bit older, perhaps they laughed at the lowly, pathetic, sexual humor contrivances in this movie.

The only thing of interest, at all, I found was the actor's real names were used (and why not?).

The movie, outside the `friend' story line, was not funny, not laughable, insulting, demeaning and degrading. I am sure there are similar wretched, low life, movies out there I haven't seen (thank God) but this is the worst movie I have ever seen, in my entire life.

The only thing that made me laugh was the final pleasure when the credits came up.
2840697
"Life of Pi" starts pleasantly, though is confusing.  It has the potential of being something quite thought provoking.  But, the thing quickly degrades into a hellish experience that will leave scarred memories, images that may well remain with the viewer for some time to come.

The mindless, idiotic fool that is the central character fumbles his way onto a life boat while intentionally wandering around on the deck of a ship that is struggling to stay afloat in typhoon conditions.  There are zoo animals confined on this ship, which are depicted as drowning below deck while the ship is slowly doing down.  People and animals suffer miserably, and you get to see it!

While everyone in your living room is begging you to please stop this miserable agony of a "movie"; you hold on hoping this garbage will improve eventually.  Then you get to see a hyena attack, and mutilate a zebra while the coward is standing in the lifeboat with a ten foot oar in his hands, just looking at the butchery with flies buzzing in & out of his cavernous pie-hole!

I slammed the stop button on the remote, and found myself desperately wishing I could grab that oar and do to the fool what he should have done to the hyena!

If you have children, or adults with sensitive demeanors in your family, be sure to avoid this ravishing torture at all costs!!
1699489
Over half of this movie is just complaining about how life is so unfair.  (Fast forward through it, you won't miss anything.)  In place of any redeeming ending, the movies finishes leaving you hopeless.  This is the opposite of what I want to see when I go to the movies.

If you like depressing, non-entertaining, borderline feminist movies, this will rank near the top of your list.
1752532
If you in a happy mood don't watch or your mood will rapidly decline. If you are feeling sad definitely don't watch this film. It is haunting, upsetting and depressing.
3548840
It is rare that I am at a loss for words, but in attempting to review this "movie" I must admit that I cannot summon up adjectives of suitable negativity to accurately convey my disgust. I will try. Imagine the excrutiating boredom of watching a small group of amateurish actors wander aimlessly in the woods for at least 90 minutes, uttering trite phrases. Those familiar with one of the most famous worst-movies-of-all-time, Robot Monster, will fondly recall cave scenes in which some joker (aptly named Ro-Man) wearing a moth-eaten gorilla suit and a diving helmet on his head menaced a diminishing group of clueless actors. It couldn't get worse than this, could it? Well, how about substituting stock footage of a growling grizzly bear as your scary monster, instead of good old Ro-Man? No one could possibly be this silly, you would reply. And I would have agreed, until I witnessed the nightmare that is Savage Planet.

This movie is an utter, abject failure, and the scope of its failure boggles the mind. Indeed, one of the tag phrases offered by Amazon at the bottom of the review page for this movie is "crappy sci-fi". Amen.

Whenever confronted by a truly execrable production such as this, my common sense tells me that everyone involved must, at some time, have realized that they were participating in something totally devoid of any artistic merit...something really, really awful. How could they keep a straight face? Did they really need money this badly? Sadly, the real horror here is not that a group of reasonably normal, intelligent people got together to create this mess, but that a small group of reasonably normal, intelligent people like you and I watched it.