Primeval

A modest adventure thriller in which naive American journalists blunder into a morass of African misery while searching for a legendary maneating crocodile, PRIMEVAL was set up to fail: released in the notorious dumping ground of early January, without critics' screenings and with a brazenly misleading ad campaign that positioned it as a serial killer movie.

Arrogant, Manhattan-based news producer Tim Manfrey (Dominic Purcell, of TV's Prison Break) is punished for botching a high-profile story with an assignment to accompany clueless on-air twinkie Aviva Masters (Brooke Langton) to war-torn Burundi, where an American was ripped to shreds by a cr...