Review: The Untold (Sasquatch)

The Untold (Sasquatch) 2002

Now I do love me some big foot, but this movie is pretty forgettable. A rescue party is sent out in search of a plane that has gone down in remote forest country of the American Northwest. The survivors have been dragged off and presumably devoured by a sasquatch, but the search party doesn't know that yet. The search party contains your usual mixture of tough-guys and bumbling idiots and bimbos, lead by the father of one of the plane passengers who happens to also own some big bio-tech corporation played by Lance Henriksen (Bishop from Aliens). There is a subplot about him trying to find some prototype DNA reading machine that was in the plane. Most of the movie is the search party bumbling through the woods bitching at each other and the two tough-guy guides slapping each other with their dicks trying out alpha-each other (metaphorically speaking). The sasquatch is at least well hidden from the camera, in an attempt to keep up suspense with a lot of POV shots that make me think he might actually be a Predator... that might be the real reason Henriksen is there, I cant remember what the company he owns is called but it might as well be Weylend corp. I'll admit I barely paid attention to this one, the dialogue and performances are pretty forgettable, and the action doesn't pick up until the 50-minute mark which is pretty slow for a movie only 86 minutes long. Turns out the bigfoot was mad because when the plane crashed it hit a tree which fell on the big foots kid or mate or something. This is not the fun big foot murder-romp you want, they try to play this out as a sort of serious environmental movie about animal rights and family, not that you couldn't make that work, but this attempt falls totally flat.