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over 3 years ago

Crawl

a review by Leno

The movie plot follows Hayle, who heads towards a storm in Florida to check on his father, who is not answering calls.

When she gets there, her father is hurt and the house is surrounded by hungry and furious alligators. To make it worse, the storm causes a flooding and all this water just makes the hunt easier for the gators.

The movie has good visual effects, but the plot armor is the most absurd one I have seen in years. Against everybody else, the gators are relentless and super-effective man-killing machines, tearing anyone in pieces before they are even able to see what is attacking them. The protagonists, however, suffer only mild scratches from gator bites that would at least result in an arm or leg being torn off.

This is so frequent and so clearly absurd and unrealistic that the movie ceases to be enjoyable after a while.