This movie is unbelievably bad. It is difficult to believe that they actually make stuff like this. At least if you are going to make this kind of movie make it believable.Full of clichés, bad lines, bad special effects, bad acting and the dumbest bunch of hikers one ever met. Unfortunately the trivia gives it away when it lets us know that these supposedly experienced hikers make more rookie mistakes then well - rookies. I have had Cubs look smarter in the woods then these bunch of amateurs ever thought of being.Geezus - Scare us. Make us feel genuinely frightened. Don't just Cheese us to death. If I had wanted pure Cheese I'd have watched Machete.

Sabretooth was not a good or great movie, but considering SyFy's track record it was better than anticipated. Special effects aside, it is not bad visually, with some good scenery and well-shot scenes, the music does at least have a tempo and had some excitement and atmosphere and the acting while not award-worthy is better than average, John Rhys-Davies deserved a better character and dialogue but like all other conscientious actors he gives it his best. On the other hand, the special effects are really crude and fake-looking, while there is some wit the script is on the whole dull and cheesy, the story is formulaic with nothing especially exciting or suspenseful and the characters are underdeveloped stereotypes. All in all, better than I thought it'd be but still not a movie I recommend. 5/10 Bethany Cox

"Sabretooth": another one of the endless parade of low-budget science-fiction flicks that keep coming up all over the Sci-Fi Channel with no indication of coming to a halt or slowing down any time soon. Most of these flicks, keep in mind, I find distasteful, stupid, boring, and uninteresting. However, 2002's "Sabretooth" proved to be the opposite. Yes, it was a bad movie. The CGI was horrible, the characters were predictable, the ending needed some serious work, but it actually proved itself to be a better creative effort than its fellow flicks and even was entertaining at times.Special effects wise, "Sabretooth" is an average, if not lower-than-average achievement. The computer graphics used on the big-toothed cat are nothing short of terrible. The CGI cat is a light, blurry gray and not convincing in any shots. However, thankfully, most of the time, the cat is shown through animatronics and props, which are actually fairly convincing in a few shots. I was impressed at the complexity of the mechanical jaws used in close-ups. But I still wish that the cat had normal vision, instead of some twisted color-altered vision that all sci-fi creatures seem to possess in these movies.What I also found impressive in "Sabretooth" was that it wasn't recklessly bloody and distasteful. The cat does not just attack people, rip off arms, heads, and leave chunks of body lying around and huge pools of blood. The gore is kept at a controlled level and is thus, more realistic. The screenplay was also fairly good and there were some effective moments of comical relief and even some character development. The characters were more developed and believable and thus, were not boring. David Keith was especially good as the hunter Bob Thatcher, hired to catch the cat.Bottom line, "Sabretooth" was actually an entertaining low-budget sci-fi feature. And if any sci-fi flick can achieve that, then I praise it for what it is. Yes, if this was a Hollywood film, then it would be a disgrace, but being under the category that it is, it is a very excellent achievement and worth looking at a few times.

It's hard to decide which aspect of this movie is worst, effects, cast, dialogs, camera action, script, direction, they're all competing so hard! Especially worth mentioning is Vanessa Angel, who must have just left the botox studio before this flick was shot. We had a lot of fun guessing who'd die next and who we wanted to die soonest. Unfortunately the body-count stopped at about ten. Why this film was rated 16+ here in the Netherlands beats me, it wouldn't scare my four-year-old nephew and there was not even the accidental nipple showing. Films of this caliber always leave me wondering who on earth voluntarily invest in waste like this, one can't imagine the revenue ever breaking even with costs, even with as low a budget as this one must have had. Waste of time, watchable only with alcohol and a lot of friends. (2/10)