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Dull Creature Feature - Black Water: Abyss review by GI

A follow up film to the popular 2007 Black Water this is another Aussie film where five twenty somethings go on an Ella advised adventure and get stalked by a big creature, in this case a crocodile. Like The Reef (2010) there's a host of films of this type often the creature being a shark or alligator of as here a crocodile. This film doesn't offer anything new indeed it's stereotypical in almost every way. The five characters are what you'd expect and you can work out fairly easily the order in which they'll be picked off. Led by alpha male Eric (Luke Mitchell - a Chris Hemsworth lookalike) they go caving in the jungle, stupidly not telling anyone else where they are going and go underground just as a big storm comes along....Der!! The cave gets flooded, they get trapped and a big croc is in there too and very hungry. There may even be more than one croc, its all a little unclear and there's the usual glimpses here and there before someone gets grabbed. It's quite a tame film with little shocks or scares and it can't decide when to end so drags itself on for further slices of croc attacks. Overall it's exactly what it says on the tin, rather average, indeed a bit dull at times and even the relationship drama thrown in for good measure seems ridiculous.