Primal (2019) | (Blu-Ray) | USED

Title: Primal (2019)

Alternate Title: En cage / Instinto Predador

Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller

Plot Synopsis
Frank Walsh, a hard-edged big-game hunter who captures rare animals for zoos, has just snagged his biggest prize yet: a legendary white jaguar deep in the Brazilian jungle. He loads the jaguar and a menagerie of deadly creatures onto a freighter bound for the United States, expecting an easy payday. But the ship is also carrying a secret prisoner, a highly trained political assassin being escorted back to face justice. When the killer escapes and unleashes the caged animals, the vessel turns into a steel maze of predators and prey, forcing Frank to hunt a human monster and survive his own rampaging cargo.

Cast and Crew

• Director: Nick Powell

• Writers: Richard Leder

• Cast:

  • Nicolas Cage as Frank Walsh

  • Famke Janssen as Dr. Ellen Taylor

  • Kevin Durand as Richard Loffler

  • LaMonica Garrett as John Ringer

  • Michael Imperioli as Paul Freed

YouTube Trailer: Primal (2019) | Trailer

IMDb: Primal (2019)

Reviews from Letterboxd:

1. David Ehrlich — ★★
   “Begins perfectly with bearded Nic Cage in a jungle tree stalking a ghost jaguar, but the schlocky thriller never matches that opening high.”

2. The Projectionist — ★★
   “Logs the film as a middle-of-the-road Cage vehicle: fun premise, decent mayhem, but overall a 41/100 kind of night at the movies.”

3. matt lynch — ★★★
   “Could’ve used more of the talking parrot sidekick, yet as a cheap, contained Cage action flick, it scratches the B-movie itch.”

4. Rafael “Mister Movie” Jovine — ★★★
   “An above-average Cage outing with wild action, a vicious CGI cat, an unhinged Kevin Durand, and a single-location setup that stays entertaining.”

5. Allison M. — ★★½
   “Noah’s Ark meets Con Air: Cage wrangles animals and killers on a ship, rough visuals and all, in a proudly trashy high-concept thriller.”

Meta Description: Nicolas Cage stars as a ruthless big-game hunter trapped on a freighter with a loose assassin and a ship full of deadly animals in this pulpy, high-concept action thriller.