The Lost Tribe (2010) User Reviews

Lost script

[MartianOctocretr5 · 3/10 · 28 August 2011]

About 75% of the time, all you see is darkness and outlines, sometimes with some crunching noises and people screaming. That approach is OK for a horror movie when used in moderation: here it's used so much they might as well have been filming from inside a closet. With the door shut.

Except for the anthropologist (or whoever she was) character, the acting looks like a You-Tube video somebody at a drunken frat party shot of his friends when they were all beyond hammered. All of these characters are obviously there for no other purpose than to become roadkill pizza for the creatures. There's one recognizable actor in the cast, whose purpose is even more baffling; he's an extra bad guy but who knows what his motivations are. And it never matters or changes anything anyway. I guess the actor had some free time and worked on the cheap.

The movie brazenly cuts and pastes direct images from Predator and several other movies. The creatures (that you can hardly ever see) grunt Kling-On and chase the scientist blonde all over the place, and then let her go. Then chase her some more. She thinks they might be the long sought-after Missing Link, but who knows? They show more skill, intelligence, and adaptability than some modern humans, such as whoever was responsible for this silliness.

Pretty Bland Ripoff Film

[gavin6942 · 4/10 · 26 October 2010]

A group of young adults crashes their boat on some island, and they encounter a race of primates that is maybe the missing link or maybe something else. It's not really clear, but one thing is certain: they are deadly.

This movie is stupid for a number of reasons, the first being that they have no clue what they're talking about with Catholics -- the film features a King James version of the Bible (not a Catholic one) and says the motive is evolution denial. Believe it or not, the Catholic Church believes in evolution! This is also obviously a "Predator" ripoff based on the cover art, and the creatures' vision. The beasts in the film don't even really look like the cover, so it's a ripoff and misleading.

Where is this? 5 hours north of the Antilles... is that where evolution occurred? I don't know, but I doubt it, as that would be off the American coast.

Lance Henriksen appears, and tries to save the film... but fails.

Rip off...

[KylaDollz · 4/10 · 31 December 2013]

This movie had so many problems. The cast is very unlikable, and the acting is hardly passable. There are even obvious things taken directly from the movie Predator. There is a scene in which someone is intensely looking into the jungle while another behind them whispers "over there" which was lifted directly from Predator. Not to mention the creatures see body heat and while they try and be original and tell us juice from what look to be grapes hide you from the creatures vision, you can clearly see the character covered in mud. At this point I was waiting for the main character to start yelling "kill me i'm here, kill me!"

You are not missing anything by passing this movie up. That is coming from a girl that lives for monster movies.

This is a rehash of The Forgotten Ones with different cast n crew but the end result is worse than the original.

[Fella_shibby · 2/10 · 11 November 2020]

I first saw this almost a decade back on a dvd which I own. Revisited it recently on a fast forward mode. It is a rehash of the The Forgotten Ones by the same producers as they became obsessed with the idea of Predator, Descent n Ford Coppola's Dracula or mayb they wanted to splurge the money earned on interest. But the original cast n crew were not fools to reshoot the entire film.

Be careful to avoid wasting time on this turkey, so be aware of the various titles this film is known as, Primevil, Primal, The Lost Tribe, etc. I hope Lance Henriksen charged the producers good money for his 2 mins appearance.

The lead girl escapes the creatures many times/she is not killed by the creatures quickly while the other characters r jus bumped off quickly. The ending is very convenient n a real piece of cake.

Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen

[steveinconverse · 1/10 · 14 December 2010]

This movie is horrible. From the bad acting to the amateurish special effects to a lack of continuity, it has it all. The only redeeming quality in the production was the make up on the creatures. I'm actually disappointed that IMDb does not have a way to rate a movie lower than "1". There was a complete lack of story and the addition of Lance Henrickson only teased me to rent it. Thank God it was a Redbox movie and I'm only out $1 USD. Some of the things that stood out in this movie as just being bad, poorly thought out or ridiculous?

• Lack of HD? Perhaps its how the director intended it to be, but the movie appears to have been shot in SD rather than HD.

• When they are on the beach after washing up after sinking and they have the radio and are trying to call for help. Last time I checked the great big 12v marine battery that powers that system would not have washed up either, but yet, there it was! No antenna? How about a portable hand-held radio in the sequel?

• Again on the beach, you see them standing close to the edge of the islands vegetation and then the very next scene is a faraway shot of them all standing on the beach and the vegetation is nowhere near them.

• Obvious "Predator" comparisons can be made via some of the effects and some of the actions of the actors such as the creatures vision, sliding down the mud trail etc.

• Worst scene? When the female lead finds her boyfriend in the cave and realizes that he cannot be saved, decides to smother him while kissing him goodbye. We actually were howling with laughter at that.

Again, please do not ever rent this. It took me two days to get the stink out of my DVD player.

Unwanted love child of Predator and Congo

[doyourpep · 2/10 · 15 August 2012]

Where do you begin with this movie! The movie starts with an almost entirely unrelated and totally unexplained subplot. This subplot boils down to a group of scientist found the missing link in the Caribbean, not Africa or Asia where the earliest hominids have been found. That's not at all though! The church finds out that the missing link is found and sends in an assassin (Bishop from Alien). All of this has almost nothing to do with the movie though!

The real plot begins and were introduced to five forgettable individuals. After some poor character development and attempted tension between the characters the creatures are introduced. Naturally, when the survivors' "leader" goes missing the four remaining survivors split-up because it ensures the highest chance of survival. Two people return to the beach or attempt to, but are chased and then are forgotten for the next 40 minutes. Meanwhile the two who continue searching are ambushed by Bishop. He kills some fat guy and then chases the main girl before being killed by a creature. With the creatures hot on her tail she discovers the creature have a weakness. Their infrared vision is blocked by grape juice! This is where the movie just falls apart. The main character infiltrates the creature village and searches for her boyfriend. The fate of her two friends is learned, shocker they're dead. Anyway she finds her boyfriend who has had his spine removed but is living and moving rather well for lacking a spinal cord. She smothers him to death with kisses and flees the village, creatures in hot pursuit. She has a final standoff with the creatures where we discover their bodies are the evil gorillas from Congo and their faces are from Predator, it was totally original though. She kills the alpha male and the creatures just walk off she happily leaves her Caribbean vacation and sails for home.

One thing that annoyed me about this movie they make a point of pointing out the large cranial capacity of the creatures which split from modern humans when they developed. That was 200,000 years ago, sure it took us awhile but we mastered the planet in that time and flew into the stars. These creatures who are supposed to be the closest living relatives to humans haven't even developed clothing.

1.000.000?

[iowastate-1 · 2/10 · 9 May 2013]

million dollar budget? are you sure it wasn't more like a 1,000 and shot in somebody's backyard not a movie studio?

I watched this film in the early morning hours one day when I try to catch horror movies that don't get shown in prime time because many of my favourites are movies that get lower than deserved scores from critics who don't appreciate good horror movies.

This one on the other hand seems more like a student movie that was filmed in a back yard than a professional film. Hiding the enemy in the dark or in the forest cover so you only hear them before they strike can be useful if not overdone but when that is constant it make you wonder if it is an excuse to avoid using special effects.

also means that whatever tension did build begins to dissipate.

there is no real sympathy developed for the characters so why are we supposed to care if they become a meal for whatever it is that lives there ...who are kept separated from the rest of the world by ...the Roman Catholic church who is out to get everyone the stone age lost tribe misses.

although I thought it was a tribe of people who run around in bad gorilla suits.

Déjà Vu of "The Forgotten Ones"?

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 16 April 2010]

While navigating with his girlfriend Alexis (Brianna Brown) and his partners and friends Chris (Hadley Fraser) and Tom (Nick Mennell) and his girlfriend Anna (Emily Foxler) to a close a Broadband Internet access business in Asia in the motor pleasure yacht of Joe (Marc Bacher), they rescue a wounded drowned man in shock. During the night, the stranger overrides the automatic pilot and steers the vessel to change the direction; however he accidentally wrecks on a rock and the vessel sinks. The castaways reach a beach in an island and they try to contact the coast-guard through the radio. However, during the night, the body of the stranger vanishes from the grave and then Tom also disappears. The group decides to seek-out Tom and sooner they find that the wild jungle has hostile inhabitants that hunt in pack and the survivors are the prey.

"The Lost Tribe" is a remake of the weak "The Forgotten Ones", with the same storyline, a better development of the castaways and a ridiculous sub-plot of a priest (Lance Henriksen) that seems to be inspired in "Rambo" that kills a group of researchers to avoid them to release information about the discovery of the missing link in human evolution. Despite having no religion, I hate this sort of disrespectful campaign against the Catholic Church promoted by some filmmakers in the cinema industry with obscure intentions. The plot is flawed and there is no development of the key character performed by the decadent Lance Henriksen. The beautiful and sexy Brianna Brown is totally wasted in a spendable character with laughable lines that wears only bikini and to tell the truth, I only liked the characters and performances of Emily Foxler and the creatures. If you have already seen "The Forgotten Ones", "The Lost Tribe" will give you the sensation of déjà vu. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "A Tribo II" ("The Tribe II")

Not as bad as I expected it to be

[drumax-759-417828 · 29 August 2011]

This is not a very good movie. I watched it on the sci-fi channel so I wasn't expecting it to be Oscar winning material and it wasn't. The comparison to Predator is valid when it comes to the creatures and how they see the human targets (quite a bit of monster eye view scenes). The acting isn't great but then again, most of the time its just the victims running around, screaming. The plot is certainly weak but if you are looking at this movie and complaining about details such as how the radio still works after washing up on the beach, this is not your movie. Turn off the critical thinking.

The movie begins by laying down the premise. Woman archaeologist finds missing link. Church wants her dead and her findings covered up. She is killed and then assassins are killed by creatures. Main characters wonder in after all this and have nothing to do with the archaeologist and the church. The church wanting to cover up proof of evolution is not terribly hard to believe but sending a group of brutal assassins is certainly over the top but even that isn't a new concept as Tom Hanks has been battling Vatican assassins over the course of two movies now.

So after they crash on the island its a lot of running around and stupidity. There is an argument and a main character walks off (wanting to be alone for a bit) and we are completely shocked that he disappears. This sets off the rest to go searching for him and the hunt begins in earnest.

You don't see any of the 'lost tribe' until the last 10 minutes of the movie and I was pleasantly surprised to see them as they weren't terribly bad, I could even say they were rather well done. Hybrid creatures that show part human part ape. They look more ape like in the way they move but more upright standing and they obviously have a language they speak, ritual and hierarchy.

Acting is, by far, not the worst but far from the best, monster affects are better than your average low budget and are the best part of the movie but only shown in the last 10-15 minutes of the movie. Script and originality are the real weak points.

All in all it was better than I expected but I was expecting it to be so bad I would not finish it (like many sci-fi channel movies).

Well-made, but has some problems

[Wuchakk · 6/10 · 9 December 2012]

Released in 2010, "The Lost Tribe" tells the story of a group of five people who become shipwrecked. The island they wash-up on shows signs of an abandoned archaeological dig and a mysterious pack of primordial ape-men.

There's also an interesting subplot concerning evidence of the missing link found at the dig site and the Roman Church sending a hit-man (Lance Hendriksen) to terminate the evidence, including the scientists. Yet don't let this keep you from seeing the film if you find Darwin's theory dubious because, in the story, it's never proved that the ape-like creatures ARE the missing link. They could just as well be a previously undiscovered species of ape, like gorillas.

I was surprised at how well-made the film is, particularly after reading all the negative reviews. Although this may be a low-budget flick, it's clear that filmmakers are total professionals. The photography, score, actors, locations, editing, F/X, gore, etc. are all excellent (not that I care about gore, but gorehounds will want to know).

Unfortunately, there are some problems that force my rating down. First of all, there are the blatant rip-offs from "Predator." Just look at the DVD cover for proof. However, even though the film steals quite a few elements of "Predator," there are enough differences that make it distinct. For instance, the beasts aren't aliens, there are no commandos, the story revolves around a group of castaways, and the main protagonist is a woman.

Speaking of women, the film should be commended for including the beautiful Brianna Brown as one of the castaways. This provides the perfect opportunity to have Brianna prance around in some alluring island attire, sorta like cutie Beth Rogan in the original "Mysterious Island" and a couple of the actresses in "Touristas." Unfortunately, the filmmakers have Brianna dressed in one of those long skirts that women put over their bikinis. So we have this gorgeous, shapely woman and they dress her in a floor-length skirt during the entire island sequence of the movie? Absurd.

Another problem is that there's not much depth to the characters and the story beyond the deep love of two main characters and the sometimes-moving music. Still, that's more depth than films like "Anaconda 3," lol.

The film runs 100 minutes and was shot in Panama.

FINAL WORD: "The Lost Tribe" is professionally made and mixes together elements of "Predator," "Touristas," "Dead Calm" and "The Descent." The ape creatures are excellently done and totally brutal, but the film borrows a little too heavily from "Predator." Plus there's not much depth beyond the love story and moving music, which makes for a strangely uncompelling watch. Still, it's well worth your while if you're into these kinds of movies.

GRADE: Borderline C+/B-

Unoriginal and dull

[TheLittleSongbird · 3/10 · 25 February 2012]

I did actually think The Lost Tribe would be sort of fun, due to its idea. But I didn't like the film very much. There are redeeming values and they were that it was beautifully shot, Emily Foxler is quite likable and although they're underused the creatures do have some menace to them. Otherwise, the story is unoriginal, all too similar to Predator and The Forgotten Ones, and is not helped by dull pacing and a ridiculous subplot involving a Catholic Priest. The script is unfocused and cheesy especially with Brianna Brown, with not enough mystery or character development, the characters I didn't care for at all either finding them stock or unnecessary. There are some scenes that were poorly done due to either bad acting or direction, I am especially talking about the scene on the beach which also had inconsistent continuity and the unintentionally funny scene in the cave. The climax was decent though, it just came too late to care. The acting is nothing to write home about, Foxler I liked, but Brianna Brown is wasted with some of the worst material of the movie and Lance Henrikssen tries hard but the unnecessary character and ridiculous subplot spoils things significantly. All in all, an unoriginal and dull movie, not an abomination but should have been much more. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Fun, exciting creature feature effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 9/10 · 29 October 2012]

When a freak storm leaves them stranded on a secluded island in the middle of the ocean, a group of friends learns it's the home to a tribe of ancient humanoid beings that are responsible for mankind's evolution and try to get off the island before falling victim to the bloodthirsty beings.

This was a pretty enjoyable and entertaining effort. One of the better parts is that it's got a great premise here with a lot of rather good things about it, mainly from the species portrayed within which is rather enjoyable. They're rather cool all around, with a great look, impressive social structure and cool abilities that make for some wonderful stalking scenes in the jungle where it all takes place. The location is fantastic, taking place in the square jungle filled with lots of large trees, huge bushes and lots of rocky outcroppings that allow for lunging out of the darkness, hiding and the like, making for some fine suspense scenes as well as a great place of combat during the last half when they go on the offensive. The gore is great, with lots of savage kills and wounds making for a well-rounded part of the film. Suffers way too much from stupidity-to-remain-in-peril and poor decision-making, but none of that is too detrimental.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity

Small business group encounters Murphy's law and a lost tribe of humans.

[suite92 · 7/10 · 30 October 2013]

In the opening sequence, a woman archaeologist and her team make a big discovery, a skull that is not quite human. At least the team was very excited about it. The Church sends Gallo to dispatch her, which he does.

We do a jump shift to a boat at sea. Anna, Tom, Joe, Alexis, and Chris are on their way to a potentially rich business meeting. They rescue a man that's been left to drift at sea. He's out of his mind, for some reason. When most people are asleep, the rescued man takes control of steering and crashes the boat into an island.

Their advanced location devices fail, but the radio works, and they give the Coast Guard their last approximate position.

They find left over equipment from Gansis Research, which is supposedly connected to NYU. They also encounter someone/something which has a cheesy invisibility screen; shades of Predator. The next morning, Tom and the Gansis gear are both gone. The remaining four pursue.

Something picks off Alexis, lifting her into the canopy, then dropping her to the ground.

The three survivors find a video that they watch. It involves the 'lost tribe' a missing link (or dead end?) in human evolution. Supposedly the Roman Catholic Church would be upset about this since this would 'prove' that God did not create man on the sixth day.

Gallo kills Joe, and was about to kill Anna, when something kills him instead. It was one of the lost tribe, who scares Anna, but goes back into the jungle.

Chris is barely alive, and Anna watches the lost tribe Alpha Male kill him for a snack. The copying of Predator is repeated in regard to camouflage, and the lone survivor against heavy odds.

Will Anna survive? Will the Coast Guard arrive in time?

------Scores------

Cinematography: 8/10, Gorgeous in daylight exteriors, better than usual in dark scenes. The final 10 minutes or so looked like it had a different cinematographer of lesser talent.

Sound: 10/10 Nicely done.

Acting: 8/10 Better than I expected.

Screenplay: 6/10 Was it ever adequately explained why anyone would care about this lost tribe? No. Could a skinny, non-athletic woman survive any hit by these ultra-strong animals? No. Yet she survives what, 15 or so, plus a forty foot drop from a tree? I don't think so.

Not a Movie Made By Intelligent Design

[jet66 · 2/10 · 21 February 2013]

Don't expect expect Lance Henriksen to work any major skills on this throw-away title. Putting in a total of 5 minutes on screen for a ridiculous subplot about an anti-scientific conspiracy within the (presumably Roman Catholic) "Church," Hollywood's go-to villain- for-hire phones it in for a paycheck.

And yet the film makers - who clearly missed the 1950 Papal encyclical stating there's no conflict between evolution and RC faith - waste the actors time and our patience on the abundantly absurd idea that finding the missing link - in the Americas, no less - is worth sending a hit-team after anthropologists. And that somehow, this species is still alive, and larger and more powerful than modern humans and (as is obvious to anyone who's taken high school biology), simian predecessors.

But this preposterous back story - which could have been ditched for a perfectly serviceable mutants-on-an-island movie - represents the only original idea here. A boatload of yuppie monster fodder crashes on an island. They're attacked by unseen mutants. You're better off wasting money on The Killer Shrews. At least you won't be annoyed by monsters barking faux Klingon, and all the Predator plagiarism (unseen killers in the trees; infra-red mutant point-of-view; and a protagonist blending in by being covered with muck).

On the plus side, the acting is competent, and the photography is pretty good. The mutant makeup is excellent. And yet, as Steven King notes in one of his essays, better stories never show the monster.

Blatant rip off with an unnecessary sub-antagonist

[darkvalleyrecords · 13 January 2011]

First off, with the exception of a few goofs, this movie is actually made very well. Camera work is excellent, the settings are great, sound is original. And the acting is far better than the rest of the reviewers are giving credit for. There are movies with higher ratings with worse acting.

That being said, now I can inform you that the script is total crap. They obviously had no money left for a script writer. It is a blatant rip-off of Predator (as well as some other films).

-The creatures are tribal.

-They use the trees to get around.

-Shot of a python in a tree? Check!.

-One character startles another with deep whispered "Over Here!"

-When we are shown what creatures see, we hear heartbeats and the vision is a chroma warp black and white version of the Predator's vision.

-Instead of mud, grape juice smeared on you will keep from being seen by the creatures.

-The leader unmask himself for the final battle. (I was expecting her to say "You're one ugly mofo.")

-In the climax of the battle, she gets picked up by the neck and they gleam each other eye to eye.

This movie also steals ideas from "Lost" and "The Descent". The creatures faces were stolen from Brahm Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola) and jump around like "Planet Of The Apes" .

On top of all this, the subtle motive for the human antagonist is a plot by the Christian agenda to cover up evolution. This is completely unnecessary and would have only worked 20 years ago before evolution was a proved fact. When you make a science fiction movie that includes future events as the catalyst, it's probably best to do your homework and make sure those events are still science "fiction".

"Terrible writing and direction"

[ccuresconstruction · 2/10 · 16 September 2013]

The writing and directing is terrible. The characters do and say everything that anyone with the slightest bit of common sense would never do or say. It is so ridiculous, that it is very hard to enjoy the story. I'm watching it right now and I just experienced another idiotic scene. Average fiction movies don't get ridiculous until the end, because it's easy to start an untrue story but not as easy to end one, at least not with any believability. But this movie decided "what the hell, why wait till the end?" .... Final thoughts: Don't waste your time, unless u like crap... OK wait. On the pro's side: cinematography, lighting, audio and over dubbing was great. But since most people watch movies for the story, I don't think the pro's matter much.

When you have money but no talent and want to make a movie

[ecaveec · 1/10 · 15 December 2019]

This movie storyline is pathetic and full of irrationality. Same goes for the cannibal creature. Probably a wealthy person who wanted to make his/her own movie.

Don't bother wasting your time and money.

[dinsmoretrevor · 4/10 · 10 April 2024]

After reading a few of the reviews of this movie, I was going to come to its defense in my review. But that was BEFORE I had seen the last hour of this DRIVEL. Talk about a movie going to hell in a handbag!! Up until they actually see what is doing the killing, it had potential. Then everything just went to pot as quick as that. LOL I really liked it up until the characters started getting killed...they actually COULD have made something really good, but they started doing everything from the Arnie Schwartzenberger hit movie 'Predator'. Right down to the star sliding down a mud-filled trail to escape certain death. Anyway, don't waste your cash on this donkey turd of a movie, just rewatch Predator and call it good. My apologies to Lance Henrickson.

Are you fun?

[viper_chick_92 · 1/10 · 26 May 2021]

You get to the end and realize you've wasted your time. BUT, if you're fun then this will be fun. If you're not fun, than this is not for you.

"He's using the trees"

[QueenoftheGoons · 6/10 · 13 July 2023]

Starts out slow, takes the boat forever to get ship wrecked. However once they land then its good. The creatures are very cool. Though due to many things it is a lot like "Predator". The creatures aren't as cool as Predators are but i like how they talk and how they use trees. Even has the rainforest fall down the hillside like Predator. Uses mud & birds of paradise juice to cover heat. The music is very good. I love the music, esp the chase music. Sounds like a cross of Baroque and "Gothic power." Very good music. They're cool creatures. Not Predator cool, or Moskito cool (Frankenstein's army) more like Graboid cool. I liked it.

The BEST of it's kind!

[atrillion · 10/10 · 21 June 2012]

I didn't go in expecting much. But I kept it on in the background while I was having fun with my girlfriend. I don't know about these other reviewers. But for me...the experience of watching this movie left me satisfied. I just finished watching it and I think it was about aborigine's in the jungle. There isn't enough Cannibal Tribe movies out there but this was the best of it's kind. The characters, the story and most of all this awesome Director all got me perfectly invested in the movie. If you like movies about people being shipwrecked on an island with creepy jungles and Cannibals then this movie fits that description and does it perfectly well. I think this movie is terribly underrated and I recommend you give it a chance.

Superior creature feature.

[jhpstrydom · 8/10 · 20 July 2010]

I stumble upon this film at my local rental shop just the other day, the main reason I decided to rent it was because Lance Henriksen was in it and when I popped it into my DVD player I also saw that it was directed by Roel Reine, who also directed films like PISTOL WHIPPED, BLACK OPS, THE MARINE 2 as well as the yet to be released DRIFTER and he's currently working on DEATH RACE 2.

When I finished watching this film I was actually impressed with it, unlike other films in its genre it has a well written script featuring more than the usual character development, it has an element of mystery because it doesn't reveal right away what's chasing the shipwrecked survivors stuck on the island and it maintains a subtle pace.

Also while I was busy watching this film it also reminded me of another film with an almost similar plot called SURVIVING EVIL, although the difference between the two is the creatures that inhabit the island where our protagonists get chased but in comparison THE LOST TRIBE (a.k.a PRIMAL) is the better film and it could use a broader audience.

Overall, I rank this film as the best creature feature I've seen in a long time and also the other film SURVIVING EVIL is also worth checking out if you are the curious kind but THE LOST TRIBE is my favorite of the two.

bad but not awesome

[DansLeNoir · 8 April 2018]

A group of young people like cliche american movies fall in the middle of a secret or something. The film is a classic American film. The director obviously wanted to remove the film from this classics. He tried to make a difference in the cliché but could not save the film. It was surprised that his character was not a hero later. The strangling woman is also a separate comic.

The end of the film is really nice. The last 20 minutes it was not as classic as it was put.

Other than that, he did not die first in fatness.

The things that attract Filmin down are:

It was a classic.

The players were bad.

The characters were simple.

The film was of good quality.

The shooting mistake is too much.

The so-called secret was ridiculous, but it was not bad anyway.

OK, I liked it

[asinyne · 9/10 · 30 October 2013]

For a movie made for a million bucks, it definitely delivers. It is a tiny bit slow paced but that seems to work for it. Considering the budget its very well produced and has several very lovely young ladies in prominent roles. Its very violent and often gross but that is to be expected in what is basically a horror movie. The plot is a bit thin and the liberal philosophy is lame but the story does make sense and is fairly easy to follow for all that. Most of the cast are unknowns but they have some acting ability and I know I'm not alone in being a sucker for mysterious island adventures. Ah yes, I recall fondly The Most Dangerous Game and many others.

Ignore the low rating you see here, if you like lower budget flicks that get a lot of mileage out of their investment...you will probably dig this one, a good looking film with lots of action and suspense.

A showcase

[guitarmahn-356-97473 · 28 April 2012]

This movie has poor science and that is easily fixed by simply writing around it, which they don't. If a missing link human species hunted as good as these monsters we would have been out hunted. Its simply a showcase for there special effects with Planet of The Apes jumps mixed with a constant 'homage' to the Predator movie. Still it could have been worse yet with a little more creativity it could have been better. For one don't try to pitch these things as ancient humans, perhaps a mystery could have unfolded to reveal they were inbred aliens I don't know but this looks like a film crew testing their chops and writing a movie around that. They also test CGI with some odd sailboat shots so its a test, not a actual movie. Some gripe they don't look like the cover in this movie, well if its the cover I'm looking at that is a skull, and yes tribes can wear a skull of any creature so that is a mute point, as I assumed it to be a skull of an animal worn like a ritual hat.