Crawl

Crawl’s virtues, however, remain formidable: It’s fast, efficient, crisply directed, and delivers on the promised alligator thrills. In another year, that might be worth a polite nod. This year, however, those B-movie values feel especially refreshing, and illuminating too.

Crawl is a fun albeit familiar human vs. beast movie, one that gets plenty of mileage out of its setting and people’s deep-set fear of being eaten.

Hit-and-miss horror auteur Alexandre Aja knows how to deliver lean, mean horror action. Crawl is far less tongue-in-cheek than his Piranha remake, but it doesn’t build to a fever pitch or deliver dynamite setpieces.

Crawl has a reptilian bite in its nods to the tradition of underwater monster flicks. It’s certainly not “Jaws” (what is?), or even “The Shallows,” but sloshing around the hazardous deluge of a Southwest Florida town on the brink of devastation by a Category 5 hurricane comes with its own kicks.

A horror movie that should have been a lot more fun.

A smoothly efficient popcorn picture...Though Scodelario is spunky and game in what must have been an extremely uncomfortable shoot, the script (by the brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen) is airless and repetitive.

Crawl has no pretense and not very much range; it’s “Jaws” set in an old dark house.

What a film. Possibly the film of the year. So much better than that damp rag of a film called the Joker. I haven't seen a movie like this since Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Bravo!

It's totally a good popcorn movie that delivers that killer animal carnage.

crawl is a highly entertaining movie, one worth a few scream. although highly implausible but much much better than all those B grade shark movies. it's a no brainer but just one to watch with chips and beer. the CGI crocs were actually quite real and properly executed. the gore is enough to churn stomach as anything could hurt badly, not only the crocs. ( remember ímpossible'the movie about tsunami in indonesia)

Un nanar de plus de la part d’Alexandre Aja, le Français exilé à Hollywood qui démoule de vagues films horrifiques et/ou catastrophés (et catastrophiques) pour ados gavés de pop-corn. On peut regretter qu’au cours de ce film plein d’innondations, l’on ait pas fait appel à ce bons vieux requins, lesquels étaient pourtant partants pour manger un morceau… ou plusieurs (morceaux) ! L’on s’est donc rabattu ici sur quelques crocos, ou plus précisément, vu ça se passe en Floride, sur des alligators très retors ! c’est la jolie Kaya Scodelario qui s’y colle et en tant que nageuse émérite, elle fait la course avec les sacs à main. Les effets spéciaux sont bien faits, la réalisation reste toujours de bon aloi… néanmoins, on reste sur sa faim et on trouve l’ensemble à la fois convenu et timide. Tout cela manque en effet de mordant si je puis dire, et le scénar sent un peu trop le gros navet pas frais qui laisse fortement incrédule ; on ne s’ennuie pas, cependant… ou très peu. Mais l’héroïne reste étonnamment habillée pour ce genre de films : même pas un petit débardeur ? ou quelques vêtements déchirés ? non, non, ça pourrait être considéré comme sexiste, on vous dit ! ah je vous jure…

Thoroughly 'meh' creature feature Predictable Rad gore Completely forgettable in every way