Advantages: You know that they must die but not how Disadvantages: It has been done better but a good attempt anyway.
'Proteus' is a mildly entertaining little horror film that should please fans of the genre. Heavily influenced by the likes of 'Alien' and 'The Thing', 'Proteus' follows a group of drug smugglers, surviving the accidental destruction of their yacht at sea, seek refuge aboard an oil rig. This initially appears deserted but then they find they are trapped on board with Proteus, an attempt to combine human and shark DNA that has gone wrong, resulting in a monster that can absorb and imitate its prey.
A familiar plot perhaps, involving your typical monsters-on-the-loose, set in a suitably isolated environment, involving the orderly but gory dispatch of victims and one that is creepy all the way, floundering only slightly perhaps in its pacing and acting. . The dark industrial setting makes for good atmosphere, but it's still just ...
WayWizard 05.05.2007
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Its 1974 and President Kennedy faces the biggest challenge of his administration. The Nazis have control of Europe and most of the rest of the world. Only North America and Australia remain and they are close to defeat.
In America snippets of Intelligence suggest that the Nazi war machine has been receiving technological assistance from an unknown organisation called Overlord that appears to originate from the future. Leaps in technological advance without the basic research needed beforehand have somehow allowed the Nazi's to attain military superiority. Documents smuggled out of Germany mention places that don't exist and dates that are in the 21st century. In response, the Proteus team is assembled. A group of scientists aided by crack commandos will go back in time and attempt to redress the balance by providing relatively ...
