Rescuers try to reach plane crash victims that are trapped on an isolated Mexican island populated by mutant baboons. Ron Perlman stars as a troubled guide hired to lead the mission.
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| Ron Perlman | ... | Frank Brodie | |
| Mark Kiely | ... | Scott Davis | |
| Roxana Zal | ... | Tara Matthews | |
| Kimberlee Peterson | ... | Kelsey Cunningham | |
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Guillermo Ríos | ... | Eddie Mendoza |
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Ramiro González | ... | Boat mate (as Ramiro Gonzales) |
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Gustavo Tecuapetla R. | ... | Baboon player 1 |
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Lincy Anahy Avila G. | ... | Baboon player 2 |
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Claudia Acosta A. | ... | Baboon player 3 |
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Artemio Arzate H. | ... | Baboon player 4 |
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A private plane carrying the daughter of a rich businessman crash-lands on the uninhabited island of San Miguel off the coast of Mexico, an island regarded by the locals as cursed. The businessman's Chief of Security, Scott Davis mounts a high-tech mission to rescue the survivors, and in his search to find a guide, comes across Frank Brodie, a man who was on the island ten years previously. Davis finds Brodie to be a brooding, reclusive drunk, haunted by his experiences on the island, and Brodie tells Davis that it isn't worth mounting a rescue mission as the survivors will, by now, be dead. Brodie, however, decides to tag along, bringing along a veritable arsenal of weapons and a fatalistic attitude, ridiculing Davis' plans as naive. Accompanying them is Tara Matthews, a young woman purporting to be a medic, and Davis' second-in-command, Eddie Mendoza, a down-to-earth practical man who very quickly realizes Brodie knows what he is doing and is inclined to believe what the man says. ... Written by Helen Chavez
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Frank Brodie: I'd like to get out of here before they get cable.
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When the pilot goes to get water from the stream and puts the empty container under water, he gets startled by a noise behind him and takes the container out of the water, still empty. In the next shot, it is full. See more »Quotes
Tara Matthews: [about the baboons] They're developing at an incredible rate, they're nearly Neanderthal.Frank Brodie: I'd like to get out of here before they get cable.
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Not bad for a TV movie, but - well, could have been a whole lot better, both script and direction-wise. The baboons weren't that convincing either. (Trying to be kind, here ...)
Its one saving grace was a fine, well-observed performance by Ron Perlman as the nightmare-ridden guide, Frank Brodie. Always a delight to watch, he brought much-needed gravitas to an otherwise run-of-the-mill film. Haunted, grouchy and cynical, he shone in a cast that was generally lack-lustre.
Great star - shame about the movie.