There is something supremely distasteful about using one of the most horrible tragedies of the last century - the genocide in Rwanda/Burundi - as the colourful setting for a monster movie. Imagine horror flicks about gremlins on United 93 or werewolves in Auschwitz, and you pretty much get the picture.
When it focuses on a team of reporters (non-entities Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton and Orlando Jones) searching for a man-eating crocodile, Primeval is cheesy stuff with a few unintentionally amusing moments, such as Jones rushing through a field pursued by the beast, which is portrayed with the size and speed of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park (it can roar too!).
Then you realize you are snickering at a movie about the Burundi civil war - perverse credit is due to the filmmaker and writers for taking this Malthusian catastrophe and, without the slightest bit of shame, using it as an excuse to play with their toy monsters.
Bad taste aside, this is just weak - script is abysmal, set-pieces ugly. Worth no viewings.
3/10
When it focuses on a team of reporters (non-entities Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton and Orlando Jones) searching for a man-eating crocodile, Primeval is cheesy stuff with a few unintentionally amusing moments, such as Jones rushing through a field pursued by the beast, which is portrayed with the size and speed of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park (it can roar too!).
Then you realize you are snickering at a movie about the Burundi civil war - perverse credit is due to the filmmaker and writers for taking this Malthusian catastrophe and, without the slightest bit of shame, using it as an excuse to play with their toy monsters.
Bad taste aside, this is just weak - script is abysmal, set-pieces ugly. Worth no viewings.
3/10