A small African village is torn between rival warlords you vie for their resources and man power, but now something else lurks in the shallows watching them for another reason....FOOD! When a huge rogue crocodile devours more than 200 villagers along the river banks, a special team is sent in to capture the beast. But the question is will they catch the croc or be caught by him?

Primeval is a basically a killer animal flick, campaigned as a serial killer movie. But it blends the two pretty well together in the lately blooming hor-ama sub genre that it's not as bad as it could be, but it's still not great.

Got your pens and paper? Ok let's go through the Primeval check list as we enter the bush:

-Two white stars who enter an ethnic cultural background to save the day, CHECK.
-Native guide who leads said white folk around the land, CHECK.
-Token black guy to provide witty quips and humor, CHECK.
-One big ass, nasty, mean and snarling crocodile, CHECK.
-Scientific hunter who wants to save above big ass, nasty croc, CHECK.
-Vengeful hunter who wants to frag big ass, nasty croc, CHECK.
and finally
-Scumbag soldiers who are nothing more than snacks for big ass, nasty croc, CHECK.

Well there you go, you got your checklist and your movie and nothing in this flick should surprise anyone who has seen either Lake Placid or Alligator. The only difference between them and this flick is that Primeval is supposedly based on true events, but then again so is Alligator if you believe in urban legends.

Primeval does try to introduce a realistic feel to it's cause of events and in this way it actually succeeds. How the croc or "Gustav" as he is known comes to dine only on human flesh is very believable and the squalor that the locals live in as the warlords get fat is also very believable. But the preachy moral snuck into a horror flick gets wasted, as you sit munching your popcorn waiting for the next victim to get bitten in half.

Speaking of the biting, damn it's quick and messy, all of the kill scenes in this flick are pretty damn fine. Blood gushes, limbs are severed and in one really great scene heads pop like festering zits! Gustav himself looks good from a distance, but some of the close up shots are bad CGI and when Gustav takes off across the Sahara to chase down a meal, I was laughing out loud as it looked so unnatural.

All and all not a bad movie and if you’re looking for something to pass the time, I say check Primeval out, but up until the crocodile appears, about ten seconds into the movie, I honestly thought I was going to watch a serial killer flick, but in the end it was a little surprising, a lot cliché but worth the price of admission.

6 of 10