Synopsis
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
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Cast
- Dominic PurcellTim Manfrey
- Brooke LangtonAviva Masters
- Orlando JonesSteven Johnson
- Jürgen ProchnowJacob Krieg
- Gideon EmeryMathew Collins
- Gabriel MalemaJojo
- Linda MpondoGold Tooth
- Lehlohonolo MakokoBeanpole
- Dumisani MbebeHarry
- Eddy 'Big Eddy' BekomboAto
Recommendations
- 67
Entertainment Weekly
Pit a reptile the size of a school bus against an American TV-news crew in war-scarred Burundi, and you get "Hotel Rwanaconda," a horror movie interested in cheesy scares and drawing attention to the plight of poor Africans. (So no, Primeval is not the '"serial killer'" film promised by the ads.) - 50
Variety
It's not exactly good, but it's not bad, and far from boring. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Strangely self-serious, and without covering the prerequisites of top-shelf nastiness that contemporary horror requires, this giant crocodile movie turns out to be neither fish nor fowl. - 40
The New York Times
The screenplay, by John Brancato and Michael Ferris, tosses out a few chewy bits of B-movie wit, most of them supplied by Mr. Jones, who expresses the ambivalence of an African-American visiting the motherland through a series of bitter jokes. - 38
New York Post
One of the few monster-crocodile movies that simultaneously tries to rip off "Jaws" and "Meet the Press." - 38
Boston Globe
Primeval is a hoot if you're in the mood, though, and it gets points for trying to stuff a little globo-think into the minds of Friday night mayhem fans (who will probably rebel, since only one skull pops like a grape). - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Though a few scenes drum up some intensity -- that green ham Gustave makes one last great appearance -- it's mostly grim, dull and ugly, three qualities that nobody wants in a piece of multiplex filler about a surly reptile. - 30
L.A. Weekly
With a little camp, this could have been fun --see "Lake Placid" or "Anaconda."
