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Primeval (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 8
Rotten:40
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Consensus: Primeval is a low-quality horror film, which due to the inane political messages does not even qualify as campy fun.
Theatrical Release: Jan 12, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $10,393,442
Synopsis: PRIMEVAL is the story of an American news crew sent to Burundi, Africa, by its network chief to hunt and capture the legendary crocodile Gustave, who stalks a local river in search of human prey. The small crew consisting of embattled... [More]
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Gideon Emery, Orlando Jones
Director: Michael Katleman
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Reviews for Primeval
Top Critic
Primeval is a slick-looking movie that lacks the gritty goodness of old-fashioned exploitation and is too silly to take seriously as a mainstream thriller.
07/07/08
The possibility of commentary is raised but it ultimately is glossed over with cliches and very little substance.
08/13/07
Laced with pseudoserious undertones, the movie makes "Anaconda" look like a modern-day classic.
07/26/07
Primeval walks a fine line between action, humor, and having half a conscience.
06/25/07
Less than the sum of its parts. There are too many small errors and lost opportunities, and it's just not scary. Even a B movie can't succeed when that's the case.
06/10/07
The subplot turns what might have been a fascinating true-life adventure into a lurid, stereotypical melodrama.
06/09/07
As it tries to be two things at once -- a gory monster movie and a dramatic social commentary -- what it mostly succeeds at is being dull and repetitive.
06/08/07
It's rough going when our heroes have us longing for the complexity of the riverboat crew from 'Anaconda.'
04/27/07
Primeval is bad, but it's never boring, and you can't say that about many of its peers.
03/24/07
Carrying a tracking device, the crocodile becomes visible on a beeping monitor, turning Gustave into a slightly higher-tech descendent of the crocodile who swallowed the clock in Peter Pan.
02/24/07
The only thing more offensive than the indecipherable action sequences in 'Primeval' (it looks like director Michael Katleman strapped to the camera to a Tilt-A-Whirl) is the movie's appalling attitude toward Africa.
01/20/07
The sub-sub-Anaconda bottom-feeder Primeval makes the mistake of taking itself far too seriously; with its exploitative images of civil war and genocide, it's the Blood Diamond of 25-foot-killer-crocodile movies.
01/17/07
As if the point wasn't already enforced in Turistas, when you step off American soil you'll have to deal with other ethnicities trying to kill you.
01/17/07
Even in the realm of oversized animal movies, this is a singularly appalling effort.
01/17/07
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