The Relic [Region 2] |  | Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 252434
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3259190356993
ASIN: B00005OA7V
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 1997
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A monster runs amok in a Chicago museum on the very day the institution is holding a glitzy reception. Naturally, the museum bosses want to go ahead with their public relations even as the creature is decapitating victims. Penelope Ann Miller plays a scientist on the run from the critter (which is at times computer generated and reminiscent of the raptors in Jurassic Park), and Tom Sizemore is a cop looking for his cold-blooded (in every sense) killer. Peter Hyams (Timecop) directs, and as always he excels at managing the plastic action at the cost of real feeling and logic. (Much of the story is pretty laughable.) --Tom Keogh
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 Can someone post an answer to this question? June 11, 2009
Abby Reuben (Harvard, MA)
I just watched the trailer for this movie and saw the dog .... I want to see this movie but if something bad happens to the dog I don't think I will. Animals getting hurt even in movies is too disturbing. Can anyone tell me yea or nay on this so I'll know whether to rent the movie .... Thanks!
 WHERE IS SPECIAL AGENT PENDERGAST WHEN YOU NEED HIM? April 25, 2009
Geary A., Jones
I like Tom Sizemore, and Penelope Ann Miller, and this little movie had some half decent scares in it ( particularly towards the end ), but it is nowhere near as frightening as the Preston, and Child book, and I for one really had a problem with the absence of the eccentric FBI agent Pendergast, and the often unintentionaly funny, though persistent, rag-reporter, Smithback ( both main characters in the book ). Still, despite some abysmal lapses in credibility I found myself liking the film enough to watch it again. It's hardly a masterpiece, but it does not deserve to be vilified either.
 "B" Horror movie September 30, 2008
:::DIGITAL BABE::: (East Coast)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's nothing wrong with "B" horror movies-I like some (The Unnamable, Pumpkin Head, etc etc), but this was not memorable. There were some scary scenes, but overall, it was 2 hours I'll never get back.
The Relic September 14, 2008
J. Szymanski-mills (North St Marys Sydney Australia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
May not have made it to the big screen but is really a good movie even with no name actors, thrilling from start to finish, leaves you wondering what is going to happen next
An unwelcome brain sucker that might not be worth your time September 8, 2008
Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Northern Nevada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Relic seems to be one of those love-it-or-hate-it movies about which I always seem to be sitting on the fence. It's a frustrating treat for the eyes of horror, but one hopes for a little bit more.
Penelope Anne Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at the Chicago Natural History Museum (no such thing, I imagine; this was filmed at the Field Museum), and Tom Sizemore is here too as a cop investigating some deaths there and outside the museum, nasty deaths, too. I think Hyams does a great job setting up a doom-choked mood; acting as his own cinematographer, he gives the film a dark and dusty look which is appropriate to being set in a museum. I'd have preferred a little more light so that we could see a little more of the museum and what makes it such a wonderfully creepy setting for a horror film, but still, it works, and besides, seeing this on VHS, maybe I should be giving this movie the benefit of the doubt when things are, I trust, a little clearer on DVD. Unfortunately he's got this incredibly annoying habit of framing close-ups way too close. I don't know if the version on video is pan-n-scanned or simply unmated, so I don't know if it would have looked better, or worse, on the big screen. But these close-ups happen a lot and are a bit annoying.
Stan Winston's creature, the Kothoga, is just great. At the time of this film's release, he said frequently that this was the best creature he'd yet created. It's kind of hard to describe, like a cross between a lion and a beetle, but it's big, it's nasty, and it's exceptionally well realized with animatronics and CGI (unusually good CGI for a creature that's hairy; hairy animals are much more difficult to create with computers than scaly ones). This movie's almost worth a rental just for one incredible shot of the Kothoga chasing down one unlucky guy, grabbing him, and ripping off his head, all in one flawless shot.
Sad to say, the story surrounding this monster is ordinary, courtesy of four screenwriters. The central problem with the story is the character of Dr. Green, who has to be one of the most irritating big-screen heroines I've seen in my lifetime. The story itself, problem has no great shakes other, with the obligatory False Scare By Cat happening no more than ten minutes in, followed up later on by a False Scare By Cleaning Lady. There's a lot going for this movie, but it needed a lot more work in the creative department before being shot, not to mention Hyams needing a good, stern lecture about his use of close-ups. Beside that if you haven't seen this then I would recommend this to monster-movie enthusiasts, but most others won't get a lot out of this one.
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