Primeval (2007)

Release date: 2007-01-12
Country: USA
Language: English|Swahili|Kirundi|French
Director: Michael Katleman
Production Co: Hollywood Pictures, Pariah, Sarah James Productions
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror, War
Rating: 4.8/10
Length: 1h 33min

Storyline

TV show star reporter Tim Manfrey and his cameraman Steven Johnson travel to Burundi to get sensational footage of a giant crococilian monster which attacked a UN identification team and the Tutsi-Hutu tribal civil war carnage mass grave corpses it was digging up in a Great Lakes marsh area. But it turns out danger also lurks in the armed form of a local war lord.

Plot Keywords

based on true story, loss of friend, investigative reporter, interracial friendship, heavy rain, head butt, goat, female reporter, employer employee relationship, cpr, machete, mauling, monster movie, snake, slow motion scene, shot in the stomach, shot in the leg, shot in the chest, shaman, senator

Short Review

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.