Review of Black Water (2008) by ~Stevn~ (Party Animal) — 07 Sep 2008

REVIEW: The story revolves around Grace, her boyfriend and her.

Younger sister who are on a trip together. They decide.

To explore the backwaters of Australia and go on a.

Guided fishing trip, only to get their boat rammed.

In the middle of no-manâ??s-land (or shall I say river?).

Up until this point, everything seemed pretty.

Promising about this flick. The production values.

Looked decent, there was a decent amount of suspense.

And the actors were convincing enough. Unfortunately,.

It all goes downhill from there. For the rest of the.

Movie we get to see the friends sit and whine in a.

Tree while trying to come up with a solution to get.

Out of there without getting eaten by the crocodile.

They always come up with the same solution but they.

Never quite manage to pull it off. In other words,.

This is how the movie goes; whine - try to get to.

Boat - get attacked but survive - whine - try to get.

To the boat - get attacked but survive. Lather, rinse,.

Repeat. This gets extremely tiresome.

What's even worse is that despite the fact that we.

Have to watch these people sit in a tree for about an.

Hour, we never really get to know anything about them.

These are very shallow and flat characters and all we.

Really know is that one of them is pregnant. Obviously,.

Character development was not a priority with this.

Script. So what was the priority? Well, who knows, most.

Of the movie seemed like fodder. Yeah, it's about an.

Hour of fodder in here people. Very exciting stuff.

There are also a bunch of extreme flaws in this movie,.

Like why would they try to grab a rope with a tiny.

Branch (if you can call it that, and is that the exact.

Same branch that they use every time?). Didn't anyone.

Notice that they were in the mangroves, surrounded by.

Solid logs that they could easily have used to grab.

The rope with.

Well, you know what? Black Water is a movie about a.

Bunch of whiny, annoying people who sit in a tree.

It's like a really dull National Geographic show with.

Some minor blood in it. This was a snore to me, throw.

This in the pile of other disappointing killer croc.

Flicks to come out in the year 2007, or better yet,.

Don't check it out at all. I like it, but just barely, accually I think I only liked how good it could have been, very dissapointing!

BOTTOM LINE: If you're looking for an action-packed killer croc flick,.

Look elsewhere. Sure, the crocodile is real and all but.

It acts strange and for most of the time it just.

Appears as ripples on the surface while the friends.

Scream in panic (despite being high up in a tree).

This was a snooze-fest, don't bother.