Sunday, December 5, 2010

PRIMEVAL (2007)

A huge alligator in Africa is eating people. A 24-hour news channel sends in a news crew, an animal expert and a guide to not only film this man-eating monster, but also capture it alive!

That sounds exciting, but it's not. First off, it takes 22 minutes for the main characters to even arrive at the river where the alligator lives (why not just start the movie with the news crew arriving?!) and even then it's another good while before the alligator shows up!  Once the alligator arrives, you'd figure that it would be the star of the show, but instead, the story gets sidetracked in some unneeded bullshit about a local warlord.  Who cares?!

Ugly photography, slow pace, the main actor cannot even wear a shirt properly, everything has an ugly orange colour to it, below average computer graphics, roaring alligator, dude getting chased by the alligator pauses long enough to flip it off (how about you run away, genius), lame dialogue, boring action scenes, worthless ending.  I cannot even think of one reason to watch this useless clunker.  Skip it.

The fact that somebody got paid actual money to write this script kinda blows my mind.