'Primal' (2019)
I just spent ten months in the jungle,
and this all smells like cat shit to me.
Films where animals mess with the protagonists’ life. There are a lot of those movies. Only recently you could see in Crawl how alligators tried to outwit a father and daughter with their immense mouths full of razor-sharp, meat-tearing teeth. In A Quiet Place there were creatures with such a developed hearing that they can locate any human sound and quickly go there to tear the source of the noise to pieces. Birds, dogs, cats, crocodiles, tarantulas, grizzly bears, monkeys, ants, snakes, and sharks. An entire segment of the animal kingdom has already been used. This movie Primal immediately reminded me of a movie I saw years ago. Namely Burning Bright. In this last film, too, it was a tiger chasing two innocent people. Only it took place in a kind of Pippi-Longstocking-house. In Primal, on the other hand, it’s a cargo ship that serves as a hunting ground. And Nicolas Cage is also present. Maybe that’s why it’s worthwhile to give this film a chance.