had long wanted to see this movie, whose original title is Primeval, but in Spain have called the Crocodile, a serial murderer. And I was pleasantly surprised. It is without doubt the best film crocodile was shot (and I mean no kidding plan, as when James Cameron says Piranha 2: vampires of the sea, is the best flying piranha movie that was never filmed.) And look there are movies about the adventures of these predatory insects. Well, this is the best, without question.
Why? Easy: the key is to make a good cocktail story mixing elements of different genres to not be alone in the tale of rebellion by the nature, type shark, or survival, type of disaster film. It has plenty elements of both, but knows garnish with a plot that incorporates elements of adventure films, horror and an image of Africa tortured by civil wars and massacres in the clashes of Tutsis and Utusan serving as an effective complement and element plausibility to the whole, moreover inspired by real events. So away to be another version of Shark changing bug, although at no time lost contact with the Spielberg film. In fact it is curious to see how it borrows elements of the same by way of predation rather than wink cloner, which is what they usually do most of the movies that follow that line.
In Crocodile: a serial murderer, we find the typical battle between the naturalist who wants to hunt the bug, the fearsome giant, Gustav, and stealth-hunter here who simply want to brush even at the base of hand grenades . There is also a cage with live bait kicking and screaming into full attack, including one of the characters, the cameraman played by Orlando Jones, said: "Are not you seen Jaws? Then you should see it. " And of course we have the subjective camera to incorporate the equivalent of first-person narrative of the literature and get to watch some moments from the eyes of the monster, but do not overdo, and unlike Spielberg's film, not "músicodependiente" (remember music composed for shark attacks by John Williams ...).
In addition, the film has other things that it blends the bug hunt itself, but adding elements of adventure films, balance the set and make the film more interesting, because it does not end with the formula "bichopsychokiller", despite the title you have plugged in the English version.
From that standpoint, I think it works much better than other film quite similar in many of its elements, also based on two real predators, those lions, The Ghost and the Darkness . The hook that you failed at that, but I like personally and as a film addict staff eating bugs, but I recognize that weakens, especially after seeing this other-a Crocodile ... you do not. It has everything: chases, shootings, four by four thrown into the race crashing into trees, wild with beheading executions included, and shows a knack for action sequences close a particularly brutal.
We do not get bored or have a change of pace, well maintained its intrigue, its protagonists dispatches a reasonably efficient manner, and although you have left the end of dog crap to be rescued, the little jokes and somewhat forced no less asshole Orlando Jones character, the role clown inevitable, and the "confession" of the character of the hunter, however effectively played by Jurgen Prochnow, who vex a "moment premortem" the film is an entertainment machine of the first order with crocodile attack scenes very thrilling. The director, Michael Katleman, comes from television and it shows the trade, in addition to the narrative style of film applied to the small screen. That also makes the film is interesting in its own way of resolving the treatment of a coral prominence with several characters with an air of documentary and how to plan a few scenes, as well as care in the pace of the narrative.
I would have liked to see on the big screen to confirm whether their exaggerated camera movements in some scenes are just as annoying as in small screen but in any case, I confess that I got carried away by the illness and repeated every creature attack scenes in slow motion, for a closer look. In its normal speed, some do not look good, as the attack on the tent. But others, like the attack on the cage, they look perfectly.
And of course after watching the film you feel like getting into the Internet and explore what has happened to the bug. And you learn that it is indeed a legend in the Rusizi River, which is estimated about 60 years old and 6 feet and beak length, and carries more than 200 victims ...
If anyone wants to know more about it can mirárselo on the website of National Geographic, http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2005/03/gustave-crocodile/michael-mcrae-text , and in any case there are any a collection of videos about it on youtube, just click Gustave African Giant Crocodile Caught in Google and you get even video capture.
A bicharraco scary, as someone said, the Chuck Norris of crocodiles!
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