Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2013

Ho-hum thriller about a plucky woman (Briana Evigan of Step Up 2: The Streets) trapped in a boarded-up house with a starving Bengal tiger. During a hurricane. Just to spice things up, her little autistic brother’s along for the chill ride (Charlie Tahan), and he’s not all that good at eluding detection. She goes though a B-movie checklist of things plucky heroines do in such situations, but the movie’s so busy being predictable that it forgets to be scary. It boasts that, unlike, say, Life of Pi, no CGI was used to depict the hungry kitty. That’s fine, but the result is a not very scary tiger.