Dennis Harvey Film CriticThe other family-imperiled-by-rampaging-beasts movie this weekend, “Endangered Species” is different from “A Quiet Place Part II” in many ways, particularly in that its characters cannot stop yakking — with corresponding diminished viewer concern for their survival under extreme duress.
MJ Barrett’s South African-produced thriller has a vacationing American clan doing all the wrong things in a Kenyan wildlife preserve.
Needless to say, the local fauna quickly notice there are some fresh snacks on the savanna, to our protagonists’ grief.The squabbling human dynamics make this outdoor suspense exercise one in which too soon we start rooting for the four-legged cast members.
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