Primeval

Primeval
by Michael Katleman

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Actor: Brooke Langton, Dominic Purcell, Gideon Emery, J?rgen Prochnow, Orlando Jones
Director: Michael Katleman
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Kirundi (Original Language); Swahili (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

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Movie Review: Not What Was Expected...But Not Bad...
Summary: 4 Stars

I went into this film, like many of the other reviewers, thinking this was going to be a horror film. That was a mistake. Much more along the lines of Ghost In The Darkness, this film is about the convergence of primitive superstitions and real wildlife danger. The film does not stop there. It is also a social commentary on the forgotten areas of Africa and the plight of the native population. With all that mixed together, Primeval is an engaging, dramatic, and thrilling film...but still nothing like it was billed. With all the serious overtones, the film could have done without the "comedic" lines written for Orlando Jones. Sometimes it felt like "Chris Tucker Goes On Safari". Overall, solid performances by the rest of the cast (including Jones in his non-comedic moments). I found that while it was not what I expected, I still walked away enjoying this film. The effects were so-so, but once you realize that this movie is not "really about" the giant croc, the effects seem not to matter. The film delivers enough entertainment to rate four stars (maybe a shaky four stars, but four stars all the same).

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Summary of Primeval

Inspired by the true story of a legendary 25-foot man-eating crocodile comes the intense terrifying horror movie PRIMEVAL starring Dominic Purcell (TV's PRISON BREAK) and Orlando Jones (RUNAWAY JURY EVOLUTION). An American news crew determined to capture this voracious monster and stop his demonic rampage travel deep within the darkest reaches of Africa to hunt their prey. But Gustave as the natives call him is also on the hunt always on the move always elusive always hungry for human flesh. Heart-pounding fear is nonstop in this edge-of-your-seat nail-biter about the cunning killer who continues to blaze his blood-soaked trail of terror.System Requirements:Running Time: 94 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?R UPC:?786936727531 Manufacturer No:?05373900

Who would have thought that Primeval, a movie about a giant man-eating crocodile, would turn out to be closer in spirit to Hotel Rwanda and Blood Diamond than to the average slasher-movie horror flick? Perhaps it doesn't aim at the social-issue heights of those more prestigious films, and the acting is uneven to say the least, but give this monster movie credit for trying to get in the smart, edgy vein of some of John Sayles's early scripts for Roger Corman. A cable-TV news crew travels to Burundi to capture footage of (and, if possible, just plain capture) the enormous crocodile that's been terrorizing the local landscape. Making things more complicated: the local landscape is also being terrorized by a civil war. The film does a clever job of weaving the two scourges together, and the script by John Brancato and Michael Ferris pays surprisingly explicit attention to the way the West has been slow to acknowledge human-rights disasters in Africa, calling out Rwanda and Darfur by name. Now if only the characters were more than cardboard-thin; only Orlando Jones, doing the standard-issue wisecracking black sidekick, makes any particular impression. (Poor Jurgen Prochnow, glowering about in the Great White Hunter role--you'd think the guy who commanded Das Boot could knock off a giant reptile, no problem.) Pedestrian direction doesn't bring the human element to life, but give it up for a fine crocodile--his name is Gustave--who exists in a nifty, hungry computer-generated frenzy for most of his performance. And the script even provides Gustave some behavioral motivation that recalls the it's-not-their-fault-it's-man's-fault spirit of 1950s monster movies. Not a bad effort at all. --Robert Horton

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