Primeval does too much for a movie of this caliber; it feels stuck between two genres. As a counterpoint, its flawed and messy ambition is still preferable to all the more routine crocsploitation movies currently swimming in existence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2024

It's this sort of social insight that elevates Primeval above typical marauding animal fare.

| Original Score: 2.8/5 | Jan 10, 2020

Primeval is one of crummiest killer-beast flicks of all time. It actually makes the B.C.-shot giant-croc debacle Lake Placid look half-decent, but it sure the hell wasn't.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Primeval is a slick-looking movie that lacks the gritty goodness of old-fashioned exploitation and is too silly to take seriously as a mainstream thriller.

| Jul 7, 2008

...a thoroughly awful, downright irritating piece of work...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 16, 2007

The possibility of commentary is raised but it ultimately is glossed over with cliches and very little substance.

| Aug 13, 2007

Laced with pseudoserious undertones, the movie makes "Anaconda" look like a modern-day classic.

| Original Score: D | Jul 26, 2007

Primeval walks a fine line between action, humor, and having half a conscience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2007

Less than the sum of its parts. There are too many small errors and lost opportunities, and it's just not scary. Even a B movie can't succeed when that's the case.

Full Review | Original Score: 60/100 | Jun 10, 2007

The subplot turns what might have been a fascinating true-life adventure into a lurid, stereotypical melodrama.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 9, 2007

As it tries to be two things at once -- a gory monster movie and a dramatic social commentary -- what it mostly succeeds at is being dull and repetitive.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 8, 2007

It's rough going when our heroes have us longing for the complexity of the riverboat crew from 'Anaconda.'

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 27, 2007

Primeval is bad, but it's never boring, and you can't say that about many of its peers.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Solidly well-told and breathtakingly shot.

| Mar 1, 2007

Carrying a tracking device, the crocodile becomes visible on a beeping monitor, turning Gustave into a slightly higher-tech descendent of the crocodile who swallowed the clock in Peter Pan.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2007

If the crocodile don't get you, the warlord will.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2007

A silly, silly movie that takes itself way too seriously.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 24, 2007

The only thing more offensive than the indecipherable action sequences in 'Primeval' (it looks like director Michael Katleman strapped to the camera to a Tilt-A-Whirl) is the movie's appalling attitude toward Africa.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 20, 2007

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 20, 2007