Endangered Species

It's a 10 if you like watching stupid people make one stupid decision after another.

I literally started fast forwarding 5 minutes in, hoping to reach a point where I wasn't watching a gang of imbeciles (the "family") but nope.... a total waste of time.

2 is being generous.

I love movies with Africa as the backdrop and was looking forward to this movie. The CGI was so bad that it ruined the flow of the movie. It was laughable. It's also one of those movies where the characters do every stupid thing possible in every situation. I ended up rooting for the vicious animals. Overall a huge disappointment.

Having been to Africa, including photo safari game runs, on two memorable occasions I sat bug eyed in disbelief at the gross stupidity of this screenplay. For the first time in recorded history lunatic 'dad' books plane tickets and a safari lodge (hotel) but intentionally does NOT book a photo safari for the family. Photo safari means a vehicle and at the very least a driver/guide who will find the wildlife, identify the wildlife and and assure your survival driving to and from the safari lodge. While you could technically rent a vehicle in Nairobi zero safari hotels, in the wild, will provide a vehicle for guests to head out on their own. What could be worse then going it alone? Driving off the main safari road so that you are guaranteed to be lost and with chances of all surviving being reduced to about zero. More kudos for an absurd screenplay!

And this is merely the premise of this absurd film, as many others have mentioned. The CGI was awful but the actors did an okay job playing the role of idiots per the screenplay they were stuck with. This film would have rated 8 stars if it was titled: The Three Stooges and Their Families Go On Safari!

M. J. Bassett, as both director and one of the 3 writers, did the wildlife of Africa no justice whatsoever; as he turned a very real story of real life sad events into a botched up shambles of a thriller-less and action-less load of embarrassing stupidity!

It pisses me off that film directors who have no clue of a good idea, have the gall to think the vast majority of the viewing public are gullible idiots. Everything about this film (except the reason for making it to inform the world about the danger to animal species due to scumbags, both wealthy and poverty stricken, involved in the poaching industry) was just wrong!

I have seen much, much, MUCH better films, both fictional and documentary, highlighting the near mass extermination of animals to satisfy (the mainly Chinese market) mythical beliefs and greedy profiteers!

I have spent time in the wild wilderness of Kenya and experienced the constant awareness of vigilant alertness to ever present danger, and encountered the ecstatic beauty that can be seen amidst everyday daily life. I have spent time with the Masai tribal people, and listened to their stories, as well as other tribal group members. Its a country of raw, wild and dangerous beauty but its nothing like the clueless insult that this film projects (though I will admit that Americans being the sort of people they are can quite possibly be found to act as stupid as this family but, human nature is much like that the world over in this day and age).

With all the hardships and misery people have these days I would suggest that they avoid this utter claptrap.

PS: No wonder I prefer Sci-Fi, South Korea, both Japanese Anime and action movies. The far east makes much better films these days.

The makers of this movie had a good intent, to point out the problem of poachers in Africa, focusing here on Kenya. To do it they developed a fictional story of a family of four, plus their daughter's boyfriend, traveling for a vacation observing wildlife in Kenya. To me the most interesting part of the movie happens during the last 30 minutes.

My wife started watching with me, at home on DVD from our public library. She gave up and left the room after about 20 minutes. The vacationers are so annoying that I was hoping some animals would eat them quickly and put us viewers out of our misery. But that didn't happen.

Anyway this is mostly a miss, it was interesting enough because unless you watch a truly poor movie occasionally you can't really appreciate the good movies with well-written scripts.