>>3719 (OP)
I mean compared it to the likes of Anaconda (1997): ~$45 million, Deep Blue Sea (1999): ~$60 million, Godzilla (1998): ~$130 million, Python (2000) or Crocodile (2000): ~$3-10 million
even disregarding the budget for just a second, each of them had a premise that offered a little more "sci-fiey"-exotic, Anaconda, set in the amazon with Jon Voight as a ruthless hunter for a protagonist, Deep Blue Sea, brain experiments with great whites, Godzilla, Godzilla, and with Python and Crocodile being direct-to-video,had low budgets, relying on minimal effects and lesser-known actors, so I wouldn't count them here