Needless to say that I had never heard about this movie titled "The Rise of the Beast" (aka "Devolution") prior to stumbling upon it and sitting down to watch it. I have to admit that I was harboring zero expectations to the movie, because it was just oozing with low budget feel and atmosphere, but I still opted to give the movie a fair chance.
Writers Max Brooks and Fil Freitas put together a very, very, very generic script and storyline for a creature feature of this type. So you're not in for anything grand or particularly revolutionary. And even for a creature feature, then "The Rise of the Beast" was a laughable addition to the genre. The storyline was not particularly enjoyable and it was somewhat of a struggle to sit thorugh 77 minutes of torture. I ended up giving up on "The Rise of the Beast" with only 22 minutes remaining, but by then I was ready to gouge my eyes out.
A creature feature is usually only as effectively entertaining and functional as the CGI rendered creature or creatures in the movie. And the ape in "The Rise of the Beast" looked like something from a discarded early 2000s computer game. So yeah, it was hard to take it seriously as a threatening creature when it looked so poorly animated and rendered.
The acting performances in "The Rise of the Beast" were fair enough, taking into consideration that the actors and actresses had virtually nothing to work with. Obviously I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here, not that I will remember any of them from the performances I witnessed.
Visually then "The Rise of the Beast" was a dumpster fire. The CGI rendered ape looked atrocious. And a creature feature with horrible CGI is a game breaker, as it just makes the movie laughable. And such was the case with the poorly animated and rigidly moving CGI ape on the screen.
"The Rise of the Beast" is definitely not a movie I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this ordeal in greater or shorter extend, so you don't have to.
My rating of director Jack Ayers's 2022 horror movie "The Rise of the Beast" lands on a two out of ten stars.
Writers Max Brooks and Fil Freitas put together a very, very, very generic script and storyline for a creature feature of this type. So you're not in for anything grand or particularly revolutionary. And even for a creature feature, then "The Rise of the Beast" was a laughable addition to the genre. The storyline was not particularly enjoyable and it was somewhat of a struggle to sit thorugh 77 minutes of torture. I ended up giving up on "The Rise of the Beast" with only 22 minutes remaining, but by then I was ready to gouge my eyes out.
A creature feature is usually only as effectively entertaining and functional as the CGI rendered creature or creatures in the movie. And the ape in "The Rise of the Beast" looked like something from a discarded early 2000s computer game. So yeah, it was hard to take it seriously as a threatening creature when it looked so poorly animated and rendered.
The acting performances in "The Rise of the Beast" were fair enough, taking into consideration that the actors and actresses had virtually nothing to work with. Obviously I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list here, not that I will remember any of them from the performances I witnessed.
Visually then "The Rise of the Beast" was a dumpster fire. The CGI rendered ape looked atrocious. And a creature feature with horrible CGI is a game breaker, as it just makes the movie laughable. And such was the case with the poorly animated and rigidly moving CGI ape on the screen.
"The Rise of the Beast" is definitely not a movie I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this ordeal in greater or shorter extend, so you don't have to.
My rating of director Jack Ayers's 2022 horror movie "The Rise of the Beast" lands on a two out of ten stars.