If you want blood, you've got it!
Like the best of big-screen treats, this Australian nerve-shredder seems to have arrived from out of nowhere to give the summer, well, a bit of bite.
How apt that in Jaws' 50th anniversary year, we get a movie that's part loving tribute and part transgressive offspring, anchored by two brilliant leads and with outré fun by the boatload.
Here, Jai Courtney's career-best villain meets his match in Hassie Harrison's teeth-baring hero - one of the knockout action performances of recent years.
Try to avoid all the trailers and just dive right into the mayhem because Dangerous Animals delivers cliffhanger after cliffhanger and gets the job done with the kind of vim and viciousness that's lesser spotted in cinemas these days. Way back when it would've been half of a stonking double bill.
All going well, director Sean Byrne and his two stars will have their pick of jobs after this. They've put many a mega-budget project to shame.
Far-fetched? Sure! Over the top? Whatever you're having yourself! Coincidence Central? That too! But folks, anyone who loves a bit of deep-water divilment will get a kick out of this film.
You're going to need a bigger bucket of popcorn.
