Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Dominic Purcell | ... | Tim Manfrey | |
Brooke Langton | ... | Aviva Masters | |
Orlando Jones | ... | Steven Johnson | |
Jürgen Prochnow | ... | Jacob Krieg | |
Gideon Emery | ... | Matt Collins | |
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Gabriel Malema | ... | Jojo |
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Linda Mpondo | ... | Gold Tooth |
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Lehlohonolo Makoko | ... | Beanpole |
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Dumisani Mbebe | ... | Harry |
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Eddy 'Big Eddy' Bekombo | ... | Ato |
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Chris April | ... | Captain |
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Ernest Ndlovu | ... | Shaman (as Ernest Ndhlovu) |
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Erica Wessels | ... | Dr. Cathy Andrews |
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Vivian Moodley | ... | Indian UN Officer |
Lika Berning | ... | Rachel (as Lika van den Bergh) |
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. Written by KGF Vissers
I have no idea why, but from the cover and short summary in back, I thought that Primevil might have been an entertaining horror film. I'm not really into crocodile stories, they usually don't work, but for some reason this one looked very promising. When I started watching it, I kept checking the cover just to make sure I was on track, but the story just seemed to get lost somewhere. Now I don't mind different stories, but the cover promised something else and I wasn't even really that entertained or moved by the story.
Basically there is a killer crocodile in Africa, apparently he is a big one to be very frightened of. So an American crew of reporters wish to capture the beast or get him on film so they can help these villages and become famous more so. But there is another major problem that takes the story to a completely different place, where there is a huge war going on and starts to terrorize these reporters and one by one they are killed off before the crocodile gets to them.
Primevil would have had good potential for a horror movie, but it just went in an intense turn where you had no idea where the film would take you. The script was also in some ways done in poor taste and wasn't well thought out, like I'm not offended easily usually when it comes to racial jokes, but Orlando going on about slavery in Africa went a little too far and was ridiculous. The acting is so so, not the worst I've seen, but the effects are not that impressive, a warning in advance. But if you would like to check out this film, please feel free, but I wouldn't really recommend it.
3/10