The read
Audiences rate it 38 points higher than critics do. Most of the 3,201 2010s thriller movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his teenage daughter.
Ratings
IMDb4.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes10%
Audiences rate it 38 points higher than critics do.
115 audience votes
Key crew
- Evelyn PurcellDirector
- Evelyn PurcellWriter
- Anne BrooksbankWriter
Cast
- Stephen DorffPaul
- Svetlana MetkinaTally
- Maisie WilliamsJosie
- Peter StormareMallick
- Andrew RouxDib
- Warrick GrierBodley
- Calvin HaywardFoy
- Jeanne NielsonMiriam
- Ndalo StofileNurse
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Themes
africakillingstalkinghyenadroughtwoman directorpoachingpoacherscrimechasingheat strokewilderness survival