Enemy Unseen (1989) (South Africa)

aka Crocs

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Two youthful dinks research possible locations for a small hotel in a supposedly deserted African valley on a patch of land surrounded by crocodile-infested waters. Unexpectedly, during the night they watch as a tribe of locals, who aren’t supposed to be there, perform a ritual which ends with a young woman willingly walking into the water to get eaten by crocodiles. Their loud shock stupidly attracts the attention of the tribe, ending with the male scientist getting a spear to the torso and the lady scientist (Roxanne) getting abducted. Roxanne’s daddy has money and power so he’s not gonna write off his missing girl as an inevitability. No, he hires himself a rugged and surly mercenary type (Vernon fuckin Wells) to find his daughter. Wells and his team (and the city slicker business man) go looking for the mysterious crocodile-worshipping tribe who prove to be quite evasive. Our heroes (well, some of them are likable but that idiot Pencil is your typical loony-eyed racist) better hurry up too because the tribe is getting ready to sacrifice Roxanne. People get picked off, crocodiles get a meal or three, a Los Angeles Raiders hat is worn, an incredibly silly crocodile headdress appears, papa makes some stupid choices and, of course, the rich idiot loses his cool and further complicates things. This all just leads to me questioning how a movie about a croc-worshipping “ghost” tribe hunting a squad of mercenaries in the Dark Continent could put me to sleep as well as this does. It’s not horrible, it’s just not all that memorable.