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Man-Thing (2005) is a English movie. Brett Leonard has directed this movie. Jack Thompson,Matthew Le Nevez,Steve Bastoni,Rachael Taylor are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2005. Man-Thing (2005) is considered one of the best Action,Adventure,Horror,Romance,Sci-Fi movie in India and around the world.
Sheriff Kyle Williams comes to Bywater to replace the missing sheriff and he learns from his deputy Fraser that there are other 47 missing persons in the area. He is summoned by the oil tycoon Fred Schist to repress a strike led by the schoolteacher Teri Richards in his company. He also learns that Schist claims that he bought the native sacred land Dark Waters from the Indian Ted Sallis that vanished with the money. Further, a man called Rene Laroque is sabotaging the facility. Kyle gets closer to Teri while he looks for Laroque, and soon he realizes that something in the swamp seems to be protecting Dark Waters.
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Based on the popular comic book of the same name from Marvel comics group.
An Oil Company whose owner is an ambitious villain(Jack Thompson)is polluting the Bywater lands and the villagers are up in arms and a swamp thing is committing horrible murders. A new sheriff named Kyle(Matthew Le Nevez) arrives the little town. He is sent to the Bayou to investigate , helped by a deputy (Alex O'Loughlin) . There finds a beast, a plant with an animal's aggression power for survival and fury. Meanwhile the sheriff falls in love with a gorgeous elementary school teacher named Teri ( Rachael Taylor). This exciting picture is packed by thrills, chills, gory killings and brief nudism in charge of Imogen Bailey. It's an unusual mix of monster movie and intrigue but definitely an enjoyable movie. From the producers- Avi Arad and Stan Lee- of Spiderman, Daredevil, X men, Blade and several others. Director Brett Leonard made this campy swamp romp adapted from the Marvel comic books of the same name. Director deliberately use comic-book style to keep us from taking anything too seriously. It's a co-production USA-Australia filmed in Sydney , New South Wales with good cinematography by Steve Arnold. Fans horror will love this movie about a monster part vegetable, part man . In similar style adapted from D.C. Comics were made in 1982 ¨The Swamp Thing¨ by Wes Craven with Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau and Ray Wise in which a chemical installation turns into walking vegetation monster. And its following : ¨Return of Swamp Thing¨(1989) by Jim Wynorski with Heather Lockleaar, Lous Jourdan and Sarah Douglas.
Better than I expected
As a part time comic geek and a full time movie geek I was surprised that anyone would green-light a film based on the old Marvel comic "Man Thing." Obviously I had no expectations for this straight to DVD release when I saw it last week but all in all I was pleasantly surprised. Now don't get me wrong, "Man Thing" is by no definition the best comic book film ever made but it is at least true to it's origins unlike "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin." The basic story is pretty much a product of the "plot wheel" and you won't see any big name actors but if you treat it for what it is, a solid B-movie, there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half. The title creature looks as if the special effects and costume designers did their best to capture this little known character's appearance and movement. Not to say that this film doesn't have it's problems, bad annoying camera gimmicks and cartoonish supporting actors among them, however I don't believe that a reviewers job is to turn into a whinny nitpicker. If you really love the medium there aren't that many films that you can't find at least one good element in. "Man Thing" never stood a chance to be much more than a guilty pleasure but honestly you can't expect a first rate film adaptation of a third rate comic book. This is a film for B movie night and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Cut. Print.
One of the better Sci-fi channel originals I've seen...
Something evil is living in a swamp, something that kills all that enter its territory, the "dark waters". As more people are killed, the local town sheriff learns that a swamp-monster of Indian legend is responsible. Can he stop the creature before it can continue killing? "Man-Thing" has gotten primarily bad reviews here on IMDb, but I thought it was not terrible. Not great either, loaded with clichés, yes, but I've seen much worse films released courtesy of the Sci-fi channel. Any of you ever seen of "Boa Vs. Python"?!?!? There's plenty of stuff to like here. The swamp photography is beautiful. The shades of greens gave the film a very nice look, and the swamp is setting is effectively creepy. Director Brett Leonardwho you may remember as the guy behind 1992's "Lawn Mower Man"gives the film good atmosphere, and there were even a couple of creepy moments towards the finale. The monster was scary and looked very, very impressive, to say the least. There was some pretty weak CG used for its tentacles among other things but thankfully the creature itself is a good old-fashioned man-in-a-suit creation, and a darn good one at that. Kudos to the effects team on this memorable, nasty-looking beast. Oh, there's the abundant gore too, which is certainly a plus. I won't give away what happens in the film, but I will say gore fans will be very happy. I also liked Roger Mason's creepy, atmospheric score. Problems begin with two things: The script and the actors. The screenplay offers lots of typical horror conventions: Throwaway monster victims, cheap pop scares, greedy and unrealistic bad guys, wise Indians who know about the monster, and so on. If you know the genre, you're probably familiar with this set-up by now, and it can be very tiring. The actors are mostly weak (Save for lead actor Matthew Le Nevez who wasn't bad), and those "southern" accents sure sound Australian if you ask me! "Man Thing" is flawed and offers a familiar set-up, but if you can overlook that you'll be treated to a gory, creepy monster movie. Better than most made-for-TV horror films I've seen, and I've seen a lot. 6/10.
Marvel's Man-Thing rips apart rednecks in comic book creature feature!
The Schist oil company is polluting the Bywater swamp and the locals are up in arms about it but that is nothing compared to how the guardian of the swamp, Man-Thing, feels. Man-thing will not rest until the drilling platform has gone, and until then he will kill anyone he can get his branches on. New sheriff in the town, Kyle Williams, and sexy third grade school teacher, Teri, embark on a quest to put an end to the death and destruction. Brett Leonard's adaptation of the Marvel comic books is an enjoyable and schlocky monster flick that never gets ideas above its station and is savvy enough to give its core audience exactly what they want; we get moderate gore, a smattering of nudity, a pretty decent monster and a plot that doesn't exactly tax the old grey matter. The swamp locations are a sufficiently creepy setting for the tale. Swimming in mist and bathed in a spooky green glow, they allow Leonard to use shadows and light for maximum effect - at times concealing the horror and at others, revealing it in its full gory glory. The effects both the gore and the creature are also pretty impressive. When Man-Thing gets busy on his victims, he doesn't hold back and we get a range of gruesome body parts splashed across the screen during its 105 minute running time. In fact, the only thing that really lets this film down is its pacing. The film is too long (by about 20 minutes) and too much time is spent with characters either chatting or wandering aimlessly through the swamp. If there had been a little less talk and a little more action, I'd have rated it higher.
I've Seen Better Marvel Movies, But I've Also Seen LOTS Worse...
A few weeks ago the supermarket near me was closing down its video rental department and selling off all of its former rental DVDs for five bucks each. Trolling through the shelves I came across "Man-Thing," and thought "I didn't even know they made a movie out of that one." I'm a retired comic book geek from way back and Manny was well represented in my old collection back in the 70s and 80s. Why hadn't I heard of this film? Then I saw the Lions Gate Films logo on the back, which answered the question for me -- "Can you say straight to video," boys and girls? Anyway, after watching "Man-Thing" last night I'd say that it was a decent enough little monster movie, but the only relation to the comic book series was the title. Very little of what I saw in the film had much resemblance to the old comic story lines at all. In the comic series Man-Thing's "secret identity" was Ted Sallis, a scientist whose experiments in the middle of the Everglades swamp lands went horribly awry and turned him into a hybrid man/plant creature with empathic powers. The Man-Thing's name is still Ted Sallis in the film, but he wasn't a scientist in this version; in fact we never even SEE Ted because he was apparently killed off and buried in the swamp by some evil oil-corporation lackeys before the movie even starts... by the time we join the action, people have been disappearing left and right in the swamps surrounding the Schist Petroleum drill station, and a new sheriff arrives in the sleepy town of Bywater determined to get to the bottom of all the missing persons cases. Of course, he gets more than he bargained for when he starts traipsing through the swamps, avoiding homicidal rednecks and crooked oil-platform workers, and finally finds himself in "The Dark Water," a segment deep in the swamp that's held sacred by the local American Indian population. Seems ole Ted was a big wiggie in the Indian tribe that was fighting to keep the corporate A-holes from drilling for oil in the "Dark Water." Enter the Man-Thing, who in this version is apparently some sort of Native American Spirit of Vengeance, protecting his sacred swamplands by tearing any and all intruders limb from limb. I must admit that the Man-Thing monster looked pretty cool (although since this is a "B" movie, you don't really get a good look at him till the last twenty minutes or so of the film) ,though he really looked nothing like he did in the comic books, and tho I was waiting for someone who knew FEAR to "BURN at the Man-Thing's touch", he didn't seem to have that power in this version either... he does seem to have the powers to control trees and vines that he never did in the comic books, though. So in the end, about the only ties to the comic book series were the title, and the fact that a couple of the characters in the movie were named after people who worked on the comic back in the day -- one guy was named Steve Gerber, (who of course wrote Man-Thing in the 70s), and there were also characters named after artists Mike Ploog and Val Mayerik, - I thought that was a nice little tip of the hat to the comic creators, as well as a nice in-joke that only old comic geeks like me would notice. :)So if you go into this flick expecting it to be just like the comic series, you're going to be disappointed. However, as a stand-alone swamp-monster action/horror flick, I'd say MAN-THING delivers the low budget goods, with nice atmosphere, some decent gore, and some cool special effects. I have now forgiven director Brett Leonard for his god-awful "Hideaway" and "Virtuosity" films.