BUUURP!
The plot: called away from a family safari on business, Tom Newman (Peter Weller) leaves his young wife, Amy (Bridget Moynahan), alone and in charge. But a bonding moment for the new feebleminded bride and her two annoying stepchildren turns to terror when a pride of bloodthirsty, man-eating lions decides the group looks more like a meal than tourists on safari. When a series of would-be African rescuers become appetizers, Amy must use the instincts…that she is obviously lacking, to stave off the lions’ advances.
The music in this movie was almost non-existent. It seemed like random humming sounds were played in key parts just to make the scenes more dramatic…even that trick didn’t work in this shitter of a movie.
The cinematography was ok at best. Most of the scenes are filmed with hand cams to make them more dramatic then they really are. The editing pissed me off cause you could tell they were trying to hard to make the lions look faster and more aggressive then they really were.
The acting was decent, but then again, acting helpless is really easy for most people
The effects were pretty terrible. During one of the attack scenes, the CGI’ed blood looked so bad, it was as if someone had doctored the film using mspaint’s spray can feature.
The most annoying parts:
1. Lion starts running at the guide from 100 yards away…guide shoots at lion repeatedly but doesn’t hit shit. Then gets his ass mauled like a bitch.
2. Instead of searching the truck for spare keys or any type of weapon, dumb broad and two kids just sit in a truck… in the middle of the African savanna… doing nothing useful at all. Seems the writers love to make characters brain dead…makes for get suspense.
3. Bitch finally gets the truck running, only to drive like a drunken Guido on the Long Island Expressway, until going head first into a ditch…and no…the movie doesn’t end there unfortunately.
4. Lions are so aggressive in this movie that they could be over 200 yards away…and as soon as someone steps out of the truck they come running…..now I’m no zoologist…but that’s just hard to believe.
1½ out of 5 Crom’s
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