DVD REVIEW: PRIMAL

02/09/08

SYNOPSIS: Serene wilderness…or deadly killing grounds? Something strange is happening in a remote forest. Many have come, but nobody has ever left alive. A group of unsuspecting college students embark on a mission into the forest in hopes of finding evidence of endangered species. What they don’t realize is they have wandered onto the feeding grounds of a vicious and calculating predator. One by one, they are hunted down and killed by the regions’ infamous mythical Sasquatch. Will anyone survive the beast’s insatiable appetite for flesh?

REVIEW: Primal is a movie about one of the most mysterious creatures in our culture, Big Foot. People still nowadays claimed to have seen the creature, others just take the mater as a joke. Nonetheless this unknown creature still is a good choice for an scary movie, however Primal did not exploited him adequately. The synopsis of the movie although intriguing and convincing; it is also deceiving. It is true that in low budget movies like Primal, the expectations should not be kept high.

I can forgive that the monster’s looks, the dialogue, and the characters were unconvincing, and I can even give the director some complements in trying to make a scary movie during day time, to TRY to used some different camera effects like the grind house effect (notice that I state TRY, since these effects do not worked at all, actually make the movie worse) , and actually by naming a real location, where people actually have claimed to see Big Foot, Klamath National Forest, but the fact that being a horror movie there is not a surprising or attractive scenes, at least make Big Foot jump on a victim or hide well or something, that all the action scenes are the same scene played over and over, and most important that there is not a persuasive and cohesive story what so ever, makes the 88 minute movie an eternity. The final credits are without a doubt the best part of the movie.

A person watching these type of movies should not hope to see great special effects or make up or outstanding acting either, but people, or at least me, expect a good plot, something that makes them think that with more talented people and a bit more money the movie could have gone somewhere. Unfortunately, Primal is not that movie, It lacks genre (it is horror, comedy, drama who knows), the plot is weak the characters are bland and everything is just too predictable; It just does not stimulates any pleasant human emotion.

VIDEO:
Full screen

AUDIO:
English 2.0 Dolby Digital
Subtitles - English, Spanish,

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Review By Milo
milo@smartcine.com

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Jeff

I rented this movie and made it about 20 minutes into it. I cannot say enough bad things about it. It is the only movie that I have ever paid for that I stopped watching before it ended. It looks like it was shot in someone's backyard with a handycam, and the monster is wearing a mask from K-Mart. I can't really give you a plot, because there really wasn't one as far as I could tell. I thought about calling the cable company and lambasting them for even having a movie like this
available, but I kind of want to wash my hands of this experience.

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