Deciding to take a special canoeing trip through the Australian outback, a small group of friends is stranded in the wilderness by a massive, flesh-hungry crocodile that's intent on not letting them leave and forcing them to find a way to survive against desperate odds before them.
This here turned out to be quite a lacking killer crocodile feature. Most of the film's problems are quite easy to spot here in that the viewer has to look at the main villain to understand the failure. This here has so little action with the croc that there are very few times where it has something going for it, as the film puts them in the water with it so early on into the running time following the boating accident on the river but it only shows up to attack rather sporadically. This ends up where that the main portion of the film is spent with everyone waiting in trees for it to leave that it just grows deadly dull waiting for that kill scene or attack to happen and they just spend an eternity not having anything transpire that long which just gets old. That highlights the other main issue with this one. Due to the way this one tends to make them more realistic route of having the group stuck there without doing anything special or outlandish in terms of handling the creature action, the utter lack of preparation for the unlikely event this happened really seems like it's just there to ensure they remain stuck in the situation longer than necessary. The old reliable standby of attempting to undergo the expedition without any form of contact with the outside world or even alerting anyone to their trip is just eye-rolling in the rather cliched use of this tactic. As well, the failure to execute simplistic tactics just because the croc is there seems to be incredibly overdone here and for a film so enamored with realism that this one tries for is a little hard to swallow. These here are what holds this film down for the most part. That said, there are a few enjoyable pieces to the film. The film's effort to remain wholly realistic for a change is where this gets some positive points in that there's a real sense this could potentially happen. This comes to the grounded nature of the film's setup as the crocodile is kept to believable actions and motions, much in the same way that their plans of escape are kept to logical, realistic actions to protect themselves. Likewise, the realistic-looking prop for the creature behaves beautifully as well and the rather ironic sense of cruelty that runs through its attacks provides some decent moments both in terms of kills and character actions. It's more than enough to save some of it but not enough to fix all of the problems.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and animal violence.
This here turned out to be quite a lacking killer crocodile feature. Most of the film's problems are quite easy to spot here in that the viewer has to look at the main villain to understand the failure. This here has so little action with the croc that there are very few times where it has something going for it, as the film puts them in the water with it so early on into the running time following the boating accident on the river but it only shows up to attack rather sporadically. This ends up where that the main portion of the film is spent with everyone waiting in trees for it to leave that it just grows deadly dull waiting for that kill scene or attack to happen and they just spend an eternity not having anything transpire that long which just gets old. That highlights the other main issue with this one. Due to the way this one tends to make them more realistic route of having the group stuck there without doing anything special or outlandish in terms of handling the creature action, the utter lack of preparation for the unlikely event this happened really seems like it's just there to ensure they remain stuck in the situation longer than necessary. The old reliable standby of attempting to undergo the expedition without any form of contact with the outside world or even alerting anyone to their trip is just eye-rolling in the rather cliched use of this tactic. As well, the failure to execute simplistic tactics just because the croc is there seems to be incredibly overdone here and for a film so enamored with realism that this one tries for is a little hard to swallow. These here are what holds this film down for the most part. That said, there are a few enjoyable pieces to the film. The film's effort to remain wholly realistic for a change is where this gets some positive points in that there's a real sense this could potentially happen. This comes to the grounded nature of the film's setup as the crocodile is kept to believable actions and motions, much in the same way that their plans of escape are kept to logical, realistic actions to protect themselves. Likewise, the realistic-looking prop for the creature behaves beautifully as well and the rather ironic sense of cruelty that runs through its attacks provides some decent moments both in terms of kills and character actions. It's more than enough to save some of it but not enough to fix all of the problems.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and animal violence.