Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2012

A tour boat full of tasty tourists is stranded on a gradually disappearing sandbar in a remote Australian tidal river while a large, rapacious reptile picks them off one by one. Okay, not so original, but this competent Jaws knockoff is fairly suspenseful and as good as any I’ve seen about hungry, territorial, eight-meter crocodiles, and the hard-working cast (Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington, Mia Wasikowska) manages to bring it off. The final scene in the monster’s lair, while requiring considerable suspension of disbelief, still brings a few more surprises to the dinner party.