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Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,629 2010s action movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
A big-game hunter for zoos books passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar – along with a political assassin being extradited to the U.S in secret. Two days into the journey, the assassin escapes and releases the captive animals, throwing the ship into chaos.
Ratings
IMDb4.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes39%
Metacritic32/100
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
442 audience votes
Key crew
- Nick PowellDirector
- Richard LederWriter
- Guillaume RousselOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Nicolas CageFrank Walsh
- Famke JanssenDr. Ellen Taylor
- Kevin DurandRichard Loffler
- Jeremy Jay NazarioRafael
- LaMonica GarrettJohn Ringer
- Michael ImperioliPaul Freed
- Isaac SantiagoVasquez
- Braulio Castillo Jr.Morales
- Tommy WalkerForrest
- Sewell WhitneyScuddy
- Leon Andrew JosephJerome
- Sebastian VázquezShelton
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Themes
assassinaffectationamazon rainforestcynicalfreighteraggressivebig game hunterexotic animalsadmiringadoringamusedappreciative