The Relic (1997)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 19
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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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A mythological creature stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser in this cheap sci-fi horror genre knock-off of Alien (1979). 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, unbeknownst to Green or anyone else, attracts the palate of a rapidly mutating, lizard-like
Jan 10, 1997 Wide
Apr 20, 1999
Paramount
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Penelope Ann Miller
Dr. Margo Green -
Tom Sizemore
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta -
Linda Hunt
Dr. Ann Cuthbert -
James Whitmore
Dr. Albert Frock -
Clayton Rohner
Det. Hollingsworth -
Chi-Muoi Lo
Greg Lee -
Robert Lesser
Mayor Owen -
Tommy Ryan
Parkinson -
Lewis Van Bergen
John Whitney -
Kent George
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Though based on an original and respected novel, Hyams' horror thriller comes across as a pastiche of the genre's conventions as evident in major pictures of the past two decades, such as Jaws and the first two Alien films.
Top CriticThe story comes from a million other movies (mainly Jaws and Alien), and it's completely and totally predictable.
A slick, witty, and unexpectedly effective little genre throwback.
A terrific monster movie with an edge. A bloody good time.
Gory as heck, but still well-crafted monster movie fun.
Monster runs through museum. Audience gets bored.
Miller turns every scene that requires the slightest display of emotion into an overblown Oscar clip, complete with piercing wails and glycerine tears.
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