I wasn't expecting much from Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, and I certainly didn't get much from the finished product. The scenery is quite nice, but pretty much nothing else works. The underwater sequences, which I thought would be a redeeming quality at least, but was hindered by very unclear camera work and contrived action. The photography wasn't just bad in the underwater sequences, it was haphazard everywhere else as well. The music and sound effects are generic, and the special effects are very cheaply rendered. The kraken is under-utilised and doesn't pose much of a threat. The death scenes are very lame, having nothing to them other than people being dragged under water. The dialogue is cheesy, the story is uninteresting and predictable and the characters are stereotypical and have no motivations to them, especially the villains. The acting is very poor as well, the female scientists don't act so and Jack Scaglia is equally unconvincing as a mobster. Everybody else is bland. All in all, a really bad film but not quite bad enough to be bottom-of-the-barrel. 2/10 Bethany Cox
