Because if anything I had a rather lukewarm reception to Ferocious Planet. It is nowhere near SyFy's worst, but I've also seen better. The photography and editing is thankfully not as choppy as it can be with SyFy movies, the scenery is good and is suitably nightmarish, as is the concept and the acting is above average, though while it was a pleasure to see John Rhys Davies again he's only on screen for about 15 minutes which I think is wrong for an actor of his calibre. Where Ferocious Planet is let down is in the artificial design of the creatures(though the effects have been much worse before and since), the often cheesy writing(some bits are hilarious like "Don't poke the alien" though) and the formulaic and lacking-in-energy story with the accident in experiment idea rather lazy in how it's explored. As well as those we have the sort of characters that are vaguely developed and made to do stupid things, killings that are undermined by lack of tension, numerous and off-putting continuity errors with the most irritating being with the person who gets a metal rod stuck in his shoulder and the cop-out of an ending, which felt rushed and unsatisfactorily explained. All in all, not bad but not particularly good either. 4/10 Bethany Cox
Review of Ferocious Planet
Ferocious Planet
(2011 TV Movie)
"Ferocious" is not really a word I'd associate with this movie...
4 July 2012