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Primeval - Review
Length: 93 min Rated: R Distributor: Touchstone Pictures Release Date: 2007-01-12 Starring: Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones, Jürgen Prochnow and Gideon Emery
Directed by Michael Katleman
Produced by Gavin Polone
Written by Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato
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The film opens with American woman being attacked by Gustave (ala Jaws), a near-mythical croc with a taste for man flesh. When news of the attack reaches the Sates, prominent animal journalist Aviva, hot shot T.V. executive Tim and the 7up Yours guy are sent to South Africa to capture the creature. Of course, whenever Africa is in the picture there is some sort of half-assed social message tacked on, even in a movie where a c.g. croc runs amuck. Granted the story and concept is completely awful, but its execution is even worse. With the T.V. crew attempting entice the croc into a cage with a goat (Jurassic Park) and the suffering of South Americans as a trivialized secondary plot device, the filmmakers should have taken a tongue-in-cheek approach to ease the suffering if its audience. Make no mistake, Primeval is painful to sit through. While the nameless cast of characters track the croc with a homing device, they stumble upon a local warlord, little Gustave, killing off a beloved local shaman. From that point on, not only are the fish-out-of-water Americans pursued by a killer croc but the warlord as well. Cue the suspenseful music. Neither storyline is compelling or particularly entertaining. When the croc isn’t around the warlord’s goons are and vice versa. Amongst the tired, recycled script, the South African civil war subtext is the most offensive. The suffering of the Africans is even trivialized to the point where the writers pull the race card, claiming that the “white Americans don’t care about black on black crime when it’s down the street,” so no one would care about it happening in Africa. The injustice that the African people have endured transcends race to a violation of the most basic human rights. Then again, when the film doesn’t offer a single attempt at some originality, it’s not surprise that the Primeval writers would use African conflict as a sympathetic appeal to shield it from any critical response. After all, who could put down a movie about the suffering of the African people? Well, if this movie honestly investigated social injustice maybe that would be the case, but instead it makes a mockery of it. When it comes right down to it, Primeval sucks in every sense of the word. There is nothing to redeem it. It wastes your time, money and opportunity to be watching any other movie in the multiplex. Hopefully by not supporting it, a message will be sent that we aren’t mindless sheep that will fall for a serial killer-esque marketing scheme.
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January 15th, 2007 at 18:07
This movie was one of the worst i have seen in a long time. The storyline is terrible and worst of all they hired a guy that looks somewhat similar to Steve Irwin and use a dog that looks like his too. When I went to see it there were a total of 6 people in the theatre and thats including me and three of my friends. This movie was so stupid that me and my friends decided to throw skittles into a garbage can about thirty feet away at the bottom of the stairs instead of watching the movie. The reason that we even bothered to see it was that we thought it would be a blood bath scary movie. Boy was I wrong because this movie didn't have much violence until about the last half hour(Luckily I ran out of skittles by then). Prime evil is the biggest joke of a movie i have ever heard and i don't no who would pay someone to actually produce the movie.