So it pains me to confess that, aside from the spectacularly ugly Kothoga (a creation of monster-making genius Stan Winston), the movie isn’t much good.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 1, 2022

...a deeply silly and perfectly enjoyable no-brainer...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2021

Features the best ingredients of contemporary monster movie formulas: loud noises, dark places, isolated characters, sudden images of bloody body parts, and red herrings.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 24, 2020

In the end, The Relic erupts into a monster mash. Hyams has filmed it excitingly, and Stan Winston delivers a blazing special effect. But there is a bit too much of Godzilla in the monster when it finally is revealed in all of its ghastly glory.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 25, 2018

A derivative and predictable post-Alien sci-fi horror film.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2017

A surprisingly entertaining "monster-on-the-loose" picture set mostly in halls and private passageways of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2017

No doubt the bill for Energizers alone took up a big chunk of this gory clunker's $48-million budget.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2010

The story comes from a million other movies (mainly Jaws and Alien), and it's completely and totally predictable.

| Apr 16, 2010

A slick, witty, and unexpectedly effective little genre throwback.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 6, 2010

Though based on an original and respected novel, Hyams' horror thriller comes across as a pastiche of the genre's conventions as evident in major pictures of the past two decades, such as Jaws and the first two Alien films.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 23, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2006

A terrific monster movie with an edge. A bloody good time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 17, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 13, 2004

Gory as heck, but still well-crafted monster movie fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2004

Monster runs through museum. Audience gets bored.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2003