Photographer Simon offers to take the family's photo, which is really just an excuse to show off his camera, but his heart seems in the right place. Elizabeth has some sort of illness, evidenced by using a cane and popping medication from a pill box. We're introduced to the remaining characters, a family comprised of parents Allen and Elizabeth and young teenager Sherry. As a smoker, I admire Gwen for not punching Mary Ellen in the face. Gwen lights up a fag, but Mary Ellen taps her on the shoulder, thinking she wants one too, Gwen offers her a cigarette, but she asks Gwen to move seats because the smoke is wafting. Normally the scenery porn in here would annoy, but bloody hell, Australia is beautiful. The land is twice the size of Texas, but with a population of only 200,000. So we're treated to an info dump that's actually interesting, the river is a tidal river system with the largest population of Saltwater Crocodiles. I check the timestamp on the movie, we're only 8 minutes in, so obviously this is the ' twenty minutes with arseholes' portion of the movie. Mary Ellen admires the dog and remarks to Everett that they should get a dog. Who is quite cute and I hope doesn't get eaten by the crocodile. Pete gets a surprise lick on the neck from the dog on the boat and switches seats, though it's unclear if this is because of the dog or the couple in front of him.
We also are introduced to Mary Ellen and Everett, nagging wife and husband, Mary Ellen nags her husband for wasting video tape instead of taping crocodiles, so I guess that's her characterisation. I will try and refrain from calling him Super Mario. Then we meet Russell, who no doubt has some sort of tragic backstory as he boards alone, but has two tickets. Kate tells the passengers they only get one chance to complain about the heat and the flies, in quite a jovial manner. Pete goes to join the boat tour where we are introduced to the rest of the cast of characters, who I'll be naming and screenshotting as they are introduced, so we're clear who is who and to help me in case I was wrong and this turns out to be a terrible movie, I'll know who to blame.įirst up we have Kate, the tour guide, played by Radha Mitchell, (Pitch Black, Silent Hill, The Crazies) she doesn't seem to fair well in these kinds of films from what I remember. Incidentally, the cafe owner is played by Barry Otto, well known Australian actor, best known by foreign audiences as Doug Hastings, Scott's father, from Strictly Ballroom.īarry Otto is totally brilliant in this scene by the way, he's a terrific actor. The cafe is filled with stuffed and preserved creatures and the walls are covered in newspaper articles and photographs of brutal crocodile attacks. A misunderstanding whilst he is speaking leads to the cafe owner putting a fly in his coffee. Pete is a travel writer, doing a piece on the Northern Territories, (our setting), he stops by the cafe and gets a call from his boss, which keeps cutting out due to the poor reception. Whenever I see him in movies, the only thing I can think about is Wesley Snipes grabbing him in the crotch and teaching him the correct way to address ladies. Oh my god, this might actually be a good movie.Ī bus pulls up to a road side cafe and we meet our first character, Pete, played by Michael Vartan (Never been kissed, One hour photo.) We then see a buffalo (I don't know if it is a buffalo, I'm guessing, it's not really important), being attacked and pulled into the water by a crocodile, it's quick, we don't get to see much of the croc and literally within seconds the water is still again.
Australia is a hell of a beautiful country, it's a shame everything that lives there wants to kill you. We open on a sunrise and what I can only assume is aboriginal singing, we're immediately treated to some sweeping shots of scenery porn.
My research indicates that this is a survival horror movie so I am going to attempt to actually learn the characters names. Also I preferred the other poster, the one that looked a bit Jawsesque, but I couldn't find a decent sized version of it. Needless to say, before I begin that this movie was directed by Greg McLean who directed Wolf Creek and he has taken some great liberties with both the story and the size of the crocodile, it's 25 feet in the movie. Sweetheart, now stuffed and unliving in a museum in the Northern Territories In Australia between 19, a 17 foot, 50 year old crocodile whom the locals named sweetheart, decided it had had enough of the tourists and decided to start attacking anything it decided it didn't like the look of. This one caught my attention in my research because it is based on a true story.
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