Review of Crawl

Crawl (I) (2019)
7/10
What you'd expect
16 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is pretty much what I expected. It does have some intense scenes. It does get under your skin at times. My only issue with it was as hard as I tried I just couldn't suspend my disbelief. I mean, who gets attacked by an alligator (let alone an abnormally massive one) 3 TIMES and just walks it off.

Haley; if you get dragged by an alligator you're pretty much dead already. In the very slim chance that he does let you go, because believe me, if that alligator doesn't want to let go, it will not let go until you're dead or the limb it's chosen has come off. But let's say luck was on your side today, once it did let go you would in no way be able run away. Yes I understand you might be in shock and not feel a thing, sure. But that leg would not be able to support your weight after just being crushed by more than 2100 psi (13x stronger than a humans). But okay you got away, good job. Then it happens an hour later, this time the alligator bit your arm. You shot it and it leg go. Kind of believable. That much force on your arm though would likely rip it off (like shown later), so chances of you being able to even move your finger to pull the trigger is very unlikely. Now that I mention that, the dad. He gets his arm bit clean on in a matter of a second. Why did that not happen to any of the other victims? They got away just fine with little more than a cut. And lastly for Haley, she got her arm again in a gators mouth, but this time the gator did the death roll. Will this is happening she's just casually swimming in circles with it. NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. That move it their way of tearing apart their food, so no you would not just swim in the same motion and be fine, your arm should realistically be gone. Should have been gone a while ago.

Now for the dad, he had a bone sticking out of his leg. A literal bone! You can not tell me that he just pushed that bone back into his leg with little more than a grunt of pain. First of all you would pass out just by looking at that leg, if not then, by even the slightest touch you would be screaming in agonizing pain. So please don't try to make me believe you just push it back in and walk it off like it's a little bruise. And when he did finally lose his arm that would cause you to be pouring blood, which would cause you to pass out and eventually die within a matter of minutes. There's a reason these animals have been around well before our time, they are perfect hunters and can kill with one bite. As an animal enthusiast who knows what an alligator can do, these people should not have survived 20 minutes

But overall if I can get past all the blatant stupidity I saw, I actually enjoyed this movie. It was fun.

So don't let my nitpicking deter you, watch it! Just don't take it too seriously, it's a seriously fun movie.
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