I don't think that everyone was expecting it to be good at all. The idea alone about a daughter and her father, who are hunted by alligators after they got trapped in their home during a hurricane already sounds completely absurd and it's hard to take it very seriously at times. I didn't felt any tension or suspense and at certain point in the end i got bored, even though the film is 87 minutes long - it felt far too long than it needed to be.
The film introduces some side characters that make some really stupid decisions and the only reason of why they are in the film is just to get killed. They show up in different points in the story, so that it can have a death count. They didn't know how to write good characters and for that reason it was very difficult to care, when someone dies. That doesn't mean that the two main characters don't do some dumb things as well. Even they fall on the same trap in a few moments in the film.
The performances of Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper, the sound and the cinematography were the aspects that hold the film together, but everything would eventually fall apart with it's other aspects in many moments like the story, characters, dialogue, the acting from the rest of the cast, visual effects and music.
The film introduces some side characters that make some really stupid decisions and the only reason of why they are in the film is just to get killed. They show up in different points in the story, so that it can have a death count. They didn't know how to write good characters and for that reason it was very difficult to care, when someone dies. That doesn't mean that the two main characters don't do some dumb things as well. Even they fall on the same trap in a few moments in the film.
The performances of Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper, the sound and the cinematography were the aspects that hold the film together, but everything would eventually fall apart with it's other aspects in many moments like the story, characters, dialogue, the acting from the rest of the cast, visual effects and music.