Cast overview: | |||
Bridget Moynahan | ... | Amy Newman | |
Peter Weller | ... | Tom Newman | |
Carly Schroeder | ... | Jessica Newman | |
Jamie Bartlett | ... | Crawford | |
Connor Dowds | ... | David Newman | |
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Marius Roberts | ... | Brian |
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Muso Sefatsa | ... | Nephew |
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Jacob Makgoba | ... | Local Hunter |
Ashley Taylor | ... | Rescue Chopper Ranger | |
Tumisho Masha | ... | Mike - Ranger at Airstrip (as Tumisho K. Masha) | |
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Mary-Anne Barlow | ... | Ranger in Radio Room |
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Thijs Ocenasek | ... | King Air Pilot 1 |
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Louis Heering | ... | King Air Pilot 2 |
While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard's Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, David asks the ranger to stop the jeep to go to the "toilet", and unexpectedly they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger. Amy, Jessica and David are trapped in the jeep and stalked by the wild lions. When Tom returns to the hotel and finds that his family has not returned from the game, he asks for help to the experienced hunter and guide Crawford and together they seek Tom's family. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Call me crazy, but a pride of lions being the pinnacle of evil instead of the usual axe-wielding psycho is kind of refreshing. That's where the good stuff I have to say about this one ends. I think this movie is actually the director's cut of the Lion King...you know, the violent part of Simba's life that couldn't be shown in a Disney movie.
This movie is almost like a real-life version of movies like Anaconda, Jaws or Cujo where innocent people are being stalked by a predatory animal that is purely bent on killing them. Like I've already noted, I really like the idea. Being out in the middle of nowhere and not at the top of the food chain is a scary thought to me...which is why this movie sparked my interest.
However, it didn't deliver like I hoped for. Check it out if you'd like but don't get your hopes too high.