Sabertooth

Sabretooth (2002) This time, it’s not a giant crocodile, its not a computer generated giant python, its not even a cloned extinct dinosaur, this time it’s a cloned extinct computer generated giant mammal. Yes, it’s another really unique monster movie, but this time the beast is furry with a large bicuspid problem and a severe overbite, a real orthodontist’s nightmare. If for some reason anyone out there actually rents this flick, please look for anything original happening because I sure couldn’t find anything new here. Stop me if you’ve heard this one, mad scientist (ok, she’s a good looking blond here) and a greedy industrialist (John Rhys-Davies) manage to clone a sabretooth tiger. They hire a goober truck driver to move it and by gosh, the truck crashes and the beast escapes. In another part of the forest (Big Bear Lake, CA.) a group of campers are on a training trip and several other people live in the area in smart looking cabins. Mr. Tooth immediately starts depopulating the area. The villains find the crashed truck and hire a hunter to tranquillize the beast withholding key information that it is considerably larger than a standard Mark I mountain lion. The hunter is played by the studly David Keith as opposed to the more cerebral Keith David. Well, the mad scientist keeps the hunter from killing the beast and it becomes a race to see how much depopulation occurs before the mighty hunter depopulates the cat. As usual, cast mortality is appalling. This is a real run of the mill big monster movie. The movie is rated R for: deep incisions, blood pooling, excessive feline appetite, boring plot, evil blondes, camping blondes, dead blondes and for the hunter who never gets to fire his big gun.