Some of the actors were quite good (others not so much), so I held out hope initially. But as the movie progressed, very little happened to keep my attention, and the monster looked like something created by a bunch of gradeschoolers. Kept dozing off so never got all the way through it. I can't imagine I missed the good parts.
12 Reviews
What a waste of a perfectly good idea
bartmacmanus24 March 2022
The acting was horrible, the costumes were horrible, it was clear they had no military advisor or decent armorer on set, the best part was the end credit animation. The acting was over the top, the dialogue was juvenile, the majority of the prop budget was probably spent on the large tent used for 20 minutes. Whoever directed this couldn't direct a high school musical. Don't waste your time.
Terribly horrific movie with EC3 being the worst part of it
lovettstough11 May 2019
I was starting to get into this movie in the beginning. Then EC3 entered and his acting is terribly horrific. the movie went down hill as soon as his character entered the movie. Even the other big wrestler Tyrus is a better actor than EC3 is. I liked the basis of the movie and the storyline of the movie. They left this movie wide open in the end for a sequel but it does not deserve one and should not get one.
If low-quality were a disease, this movie has all the symptoms.
S_Soma26 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Low-budget does not necessitate low-quality workmanship, but it certainly does in this movie. It stuns me that another user review here spoke positively of this movie. What could possibly be their standard of reference?
There are many elements that go into the making of a movie like this. Directing, acting, creature modeling, music, story arc and so on. On my mother's grave, I can't think of any of these elements that was any good. This movie was utterly execrable from first frame to last and all the ones in between.
Here's the plot:
The movie begins with some preachy Ininkwe (a tribe of Native Americans that doesn't exist as far as I can tell) chanting over some special-effects graphics. And then we're in Ohio in 1788. A group of mean, vicious white settlers attack a group of Indians with the apparent objective of wiping them out. The last remaining survivor, a wise man, is down on his knees on the ground, and a mean and nasty white man takes a moment before killing him to give a mean, racist-white-man-style, land-grabbing bombastic rant to the wise man. The evil white man pokes the wise man with a sharp implement a couple of times, but water squirts out instead of blood. The wise man says a few sage words and begins to chant, the rain begins to come down in torrents, and a mostly-unseen monster comes out of the rain and tears the white men to pieces.
Shift to Ohio 2017. A college scientist/anthropologist professor type, who has been researching the mysterious Ininkwe for a couple of decades, thinks he's found their home base conveniently three hours south of the University there in Ohio. But his funding gets cut off by the University and so he and his students sell their souls to the devil by getting their funding from an evil Corporation that seeks to exploit the magical healing waters of the Ininkwe and perhaps also their all-protecting monster.
The expedition to find the home base of the Ininkwe goes pear shaped because of all the evil white intent and only the most politically correct get out alive. The evil and only nominally politically correct get killed, with the worst mother-Earth-abuser literally getting his arms ripped off and his head bit off with a loud, squishy crunch. A little character housekeeping and some evil foreboding and we're done.
The end.
How many times are they gonna make this movie? The plot is stereotypical well past the extreme and you have seen this everything-white-is-evil and everything-Native-American-is-holy-and-tuned-into-the-universe a thousand times. One could get past the incessant pounding of these tired old themes if the makers would just do a good job of making the movie, but everything about this movie is poorly executed beyond belief.
The Native American wise man has his wise old wrinkles and jowls made out of rubber and pasted to his face so obviously. The creature special-effects come courtesy of Ace Hardware with a jaw that randomly fully opens and fully closes in complete cycles as somebody apparently throws a pneumatic actuator for no apparent reason. The creature's breastplate wiggles if he makes too great a movement. In one scene the monster paces back and forth in the woods like an expectant father in a maternity ward. The scene was executed as a layer overlay with half transparency in a video editor. He was supposed to be behind a tree which you can ridiculously see THROUGH him. My dog does better video workmanship than that.
Elements of the plot don't even make sense within their own logic context. Why did the monster wait to wipe out the evil white men in the 1788 battle until there was only one tribesmen left? Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has got out. That's not a plot hole; it's a plot crater. Some protector he turned out to be.
Literally every character it is a caricature of themselves. Particularly bad were the "security" personnel of the corporation who were largely depicted as murderous sociopaths. The leader of the security personnel was depicted as dangerously unstable to the point of insanity. Literally everything from this actor was a glare accompanied by a ridiculous-looking over-the-top muscleman pose. Whatever the corporation wanted to accomplish, the inclusion of this character as a leader GUARANTEED failure even if there had been no monster.
The gay character (because EVERY movie has to have a wildly over-stereotyped gay character) dressed in pastel pinks and multicolored socks, far more of a female caricature than ANY female in the group.
There is literally nothing about this movie that was redeemable. But don't take my word for it. Go ahead and watch it yourself. Ugh.
There are many elements that go into the making of a movie like this. Directing, acting, creature modeling, music, story arc and so on. On my mother's grave, I can't think of any of these elements that was any good. This movie was utterly execrable from first frame to last and all the ones in between.
Here's the plot:
The movie begins with some preachy Ininkwe (a tribe of Native Americans that doesn't exist as far as I can tell) chanting over some special-effects graphics. And then we're in Ohio in 1788. A group of mean, vicious white settlers attack a group of Indians with the apparent objective of wiping them out. The last remaining survivor, a wise man, is down on his knees on the ground, and a mean and nasty white man takes a moment before killing him to give a mean, racist-white-man-style, land-grabbing bombastic rant to the wise man. The evil white man pokes the wise man with a sharp implement a couple of times, but water squirts out instead of blood. The wise man says a few sage words and begins to chant, the rain begins to come down in torrents, and a mostly-unseen monster comes out of the rain and tears the white men to pieces.
Shift to Ohio 2017. A college scientist/anthropologist professor type, who has been researching the mysterious Ininkwe for a couple of decades, thinks he's found their home base conveniently three hours south of the University there in Ohio. But his funding gets cut off by the University and so he and his students sell their souls to the devil by getting their funding from an evil Corporation that seeks to exploit the magical healing waters of the Ininkwe and perhaps also their all-protecting monster.
The expedition to find the home base of the Ininkwe goes pear shaped because of all the evil white intent and only the most politically correct get out alive. The evil and only nominally politically correct get killed, with the worst mother-Earth-abuser literally getting his arms ripped off and his head bit off with a loud, squishy crunch. A little character housekeeping and some evil foreboding and we're done.
The end.
How many times are they gonna make this movie? The plot is stereotypical well past the extreme and you have seen this everything-white-is-evil and everything-Native-American-is-holy-and-tuned-into-the-universe a thousand times. One could get past the incessant pounding of these tired old themes if the makers would just do a good job of making the movie, but everything about this movie is poorly executed beyond belief.
The Native American wise man has his wise old wrinkles and jowls made out of rubber and pasted to his face so obviously. The creature special-effects come courtesy of Ace Hardware with a jaw that randomly fully opens and fully closes in complete cycles as somebody apparently throws a pneumatic actuator for no apparent reason. The creature's breastplate wiggles if he makes too great a movement. In one scene the monster paces back and forth in the woods like an expectant father in a maternity ward. The scene was executed as a layer overlay with half transparency in a video editor. He was supposed to be behind a tree which you can ridiculously see THROUGH him. My dog does better video workmanship than that.
Elements of the plot don't even make sense within their own logic context. Why did the monster wait to wipe out the evil white men in the 1788 battle until there was only one tribesmen left? Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has got out. That's not a plot hole; it's a plot crater. Some protector he turned out to be.
Literally every character it is a caricature of themselves. Particularly bad were the "security" personnel of the corporation who were largely depicted as murderous sociopaths. The leader of the security personnel was depicted as dangerously unstable to the point of insanity. Literally everything from this actor was a glare accompanied by a ridiculous-looking over-the-top muscleman pose. Whatever the corporation wanted to accomplish, the inclusion of this character as a leader GUARANTEED failure even if there had been no monster.
The gay character (because EVERY movie has to have a wildly over-stereotyped gay character) dressed in pastel pinks and multicolored socks, far more of a female caricature than ANY female in the group.
There is literally nothing about this movie that was redeemable. But don't take my word for it. Go ahead and watch it yourself. Ugh.
sorry
ritacavell493 June 2022
If you are not interested in history of native Americans, then this is the film for you. No such tribe, no totem poles in Ohio. The group are walking around like they are in deepest dark Peru. Then there is the acting ig that is what you would call it. Research people. Important.
Skip It
nixflixnpix7 May 2022
The monster is super weak looking. Worse than the original lobstery Predator suit. Mouth kinda moves, no other movements. No noises. Good actors don't stay. Good characters do nothing. Slow slow slow. 2 good dialogue lines by extra soldiers. That's it. Skip it.
Oh dear, oh dear...
paul_haakonsen13 August 2023
Needless to say that I had never heard about this movie titled "Enuattii" (aka "Beast of the Water") prior to stumbling upon it by random chance here in 2023. I wasn't harboring any expectations to the movie, but still opted to watch it since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, and on the off-chance that it might actually be a good movie.
The storyline in "Enuattii", while having some promise to it, just utterly fell to the floor, because the narrative was insanely slow paced and mundane. And there was nothing thrilling or exciting to be experienced as the movie trotted on in a very dull pace. Needless to say, that I ended up not finishing the movie, because it was too dull to watch. Writers Rick Prince and Lee Bateman just failed to step up and deliver a properly entertaining script.
I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, nor were I particularly impressed with what I saw, as it felt somewhat sluggish and amateurish. But then again, the actors and actresses didn't really have much of anything solid to work with in terms of script, dialogue and character gallery.
For a horror movie, then the only thing scary about it was how utterly pointless and slow paced it was. I have to say that I was by no means impressed with what director Rashaad Santiago delivered here.
My rating of "Enuattii" lands on a one out of ten stars.
The storyline in "Enuattii", while having some promise to it, just utterly fell to the floor, because the narrative was insanely slow paced and mundane. And there was nothing thrilling or exciting to be experienced as the movie trotted on in a very dull pace. Needless to say, that I ended up not finishing the movie, because it was too dull to watch. Writers Rick Prince and Lee Bateman just failed to step up and deliver a properly entertaining script.
I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, nor were I particularly impressed with what I saw, as it felt somewhat sluggish and amateurish. But then again, the actors and actresses didn't really have much of anything solid to work with in terms of script, dialogue and character gallery.
For a horror movie, then the only thing scary about it was how utterly pointless and slow paced it was. I have to say that I was by no means impressed with what director Rashaad Santiago delivered here.
My rating of "Enuattii" lands on a one out of ten stars.
Terrible acting
delores05216 March 2021
A very watchable submission for the love of science fiction.
WTHEPC23 January 2019
It's not a blockbuster so be aware of what you are getting into. The monster looks pretty great for the budget level. The practical effects are convincing. There are a few recognizable names/faces thrown in there to give the film legitimacy. Overall, a fun and decent monster movie.
WP at it best
djmike-6347426 May 2022
This is a B movie. The bad acting was all one person. Otherwise it's a B movie with B movie actors. Whom ever did the casting owed a favor to the one clown, otherwise the rest of them told the story. If you're into low budget Si-Fi movies, check it out. If you're looking for a Blockbuster, this is not the movie for you. Skip the bad reviews, make up your own mind. Nuff Said Mike Out.
Surprisingly good creature feature
ivan_dmitriev23 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Despite the obvious flaws:
a) the professor which mixes up "theory" any "hypothesis", also saying that the Mayans "disappeared without a trace"
b) Annoying and out of place drums sound effect, which comes from the android "standard notification sound" library. They should seriously edit this noise out.
c) The weapons, and the "tense" are too conspicuous on the mercs, they should have found a better justification to not show that to the researchers and a reason to bring these there. IRL the researches would just have said "Thanks, but no thanks" and went straight back to their alma-mater - nobody is risking their life for a sample. Obvious behavior analysis failure on the part of the movie director.
d) inconsistent acting on the part of the "mercenaries" - sometimes they act believably, sometimes it falls apart.
All in all - a reshoot/sequel of this with better actors and better soundtrack editing in the middle will be a great thriller.
a) the professor which mixes up "theory" any "hypothesis", also saying that the Mayans "disappeared without a trace"
b) Annoying and out of place drums sound effect, which comes from the android "standard notification sound" library. They should seriously edit this noise out.
c) The weapons, and the "tense" are too conspicuous on the mercs, they should have found a better justification to not show that to the researchers and a reason to bring these there. IRL the researches would just have said "Thanks, but no thanks" and went straight back to their alma-mater - nobody is risking their life for a sample. Obvious behavior analysis failure on the part of the movie director.
d) inconsistent acting on the part of the "mercenaries" - sometimes they act believably, sometimes it falls apart.
All in all - a reshoot/sequel of this with better actors and better soundtrack editing in the middle will be a great thriller.
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