Primeval 2007

Critics score:
19 / 100

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Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Essentially Jaws moved to Africa. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: 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. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: In the end, broader messages get beaten down by genre. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Strangely self-serious, and without covering the prerequisites of top-shelf nastiness that contemporary horror requires, this giant crocodile movie turns out to be neither fish nor fowl. Read more

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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: It's difficult to think of a worse horror movie than Primeval, partly because it's barely a horror movie at all. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: With a little camp, this could have been fun. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: How capturing an animal found in every zoo constitutes a scoop is beyond me, but when you expect the trio to be knee-deep in blood they are instead wading through politics. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Don't get attached to anybody, or anything. Poor actors. They took off to make a movie in Africa and all they got was a stinking, fake-blood-soaked t-shirt. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: What a croc! Unsolicited advice to filmmakers: When making a monster movie, do not attempt to sell said film as a picture about a serial killer. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: For some insane reason, the makers of Primeval attempted to create a film that blends Anaconda with Hotel Rwanda, and they failed miserably. Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Can't a killer-crocodile movie just be a killer-crocodile movie? Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Director Michael Katleman, making his bigscreen debut after a couple decades' TV work, keeps the pacing tight, the acting straight-faced and the laughs mostly intentional (though Jones' one-liners occasionally fall flat). Read more