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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are certainly some fantastic ideas in this science fiction thriller involving a mythological creature who comes to life in the English Channel and other British waterways and leaves destruction everywhere it swims. It isn't just its size or sharp teeth, but the radioactivity it utilizes to kill hundreds of thousands of fish and leave fishermen scarred from the radio activity it oozes from its eyes. It takes forever for the creature to appear, and when it does, everything becomes O.K., but I do not think that the dinosaur crowd of 1959 wanted to sit through nearly an hour of exposition with only hints of what the creature looks like. The military is busy collecting information on every type of danger this creature can perpetrate on mankind, and from a scientific standpoint it is very interesting. But enough is enough; We want to see the creature!Outlines of the radio active creature in the waterways give hints to its enormous size, power and strength, but that's only an occasional glimpse, as well as one brief glimpse of something rising out of the depths that is beyond the control of anything that any nation's armed forces can bring down. There's a bit of a human interest here as a local fisherman's disappearance is what causes the discovery of the creature to arise, with his extremely young daughter later finding him with some sort of radio active gook covering his face. Some blob like substance oozes out of the channel rocks, and one of her beau's stupidly sticks his hand right into it. So not all is smart in the writing here. When the creature does make its appearance and storms through London, the fun begins, but as good as the special effects are, it is nothing that you have not seen before, and certainly not as good as what Ray Harryhausen was doing with his above average sword and sandal masterpieces. This is the type of film that requires much patience to wait for the arrival of the creature, although there certainly have been worse in this genre. The acting is fine, but perhaps the script writers should have given the audience what it wanted much earlier, which would have sped up the pacing and given this a higher rating.

This is a definite Julesy pic...endorsement...of this as a movie for Halloween month that suits my not into horror taste buds...its enjoyable with some chilling creeps and just old fashioned silly scientific fantasy thriller fun so when that suits you're mood...this is surely worth a view...

BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER is a British version of the classic GODZILLA story, although it's more closely linked to THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS with whom it shares a director in the Russian-born Frenchman, Eugene Lourie. A youthful Douglas Hickox (THEATRE OF BLOOD) is also credited as co-director in British prints.I always find British monster movies to be a lot of fun and this one is no exception; the cast is full of decent, stiff upper lipped types who instantly band together to tackle whatever great menace is coming their way. And BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER tells a very typical storyline for its era, following a specific template that sees a slow and gradual build-up in the first half lead into some all-out monster action in the second.The film features a likable imported American star in Gene Evans, backed up by some heavyweight British talent in the form of a tough Andre Morell and the likes of Jack MacGowran. Film fans will be delighted to see some brief snippets of stop motion effects contributed by the one and only Willis O'Brien at the tail-end of his career, although a cheesy model also bolsters the action. And I enjoyed the way the action plays out in a particularly grim fashion, with the monster readily offing men, women, and children thanks to that radioactive death ray.

Eugene Lourie directed this largely redundant film about radiated blobs that kill some seacoast villagers being the harbingers of doom, as atomic tests have resulted in the revival of a large radiated aquatic dinosaur that attacks London. Can a group of scientists(led by Gene Evans and Andre Morrell) stop this creature before it is too late? Good acting and reasonably effective F/X can't save this highly derivative yarn that doesn't have any originality at all; even the director had done this before(and much better) in "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms". Not terrible at all, just been done better before. About an hour in, look for an iconic British Public Call Box to make an appearance...