By Drew Dietsch
| Printed 9 seconds in the past

I’m an enormous shark film fan. A lot in order that I made a complete podcast collection about aquatic creature horror, Fin Flicks. That is all to say that I’m well-versed within the realm of this specific subgenre and was eagerly anticipating Dangerous Animals. The buzz on the film had been good and I anticipated to get pleasure from it.

What I didn’t anticipate was it angling to overthrow The Monkey as my favourite movie of the yr.

The Story of Dangerous Animals

Dangerous Animals facilities round Tucker (Jai Courtney), the charismatic proprietor of an tour firm that takes vacationers out to cage dive with sharks. It seems that Tucker is a serial killer who captures his victims and feeds them to sharks whereas he movies the entire ordeal.

In the meantime, lonely drifter Zephyr (Hassie Harrison) is ambling about Australia, on the lookout for some good locations to surf. She has a meet cute with wealthy prettyboy Moses (Josh Heuston) however can’t fairly decide to this new connection. This leads her proper into the ready jaws of Tucker and our survival thriller is underway.

Jai Courtney Provides the Efficiency of the Year

Tucker is a stupendous villain on the web page, however Jai Courtney breathes unbelievable life into him. I don’t suppose I’ve seen a Jai Courtney efficiency that totally gained me over earlier than, however Dangerous Animals offers him the best display position of his profession. Tucker is a magnetic monster that instructions the display each second he will get. Each little piece we get with him makes him all of the extra terrifying and fascinating.

It’s no hyperbole to say Jai Courtney has delivered my absolute favourite efficiency of the yr. By the point the yr is over, he may also be my favourite villain of the yr.

A Shark Movie Not like Any Different

We’ve been inundated with related sorts of shark flicks ever since Jaws determined to be the best film ever made. Dangerous Animals did one thing of a minor miracle by crafting a shark story that we’ve by no means seen earlier than. It additionally makes a concerted effort to ensure you perceive the purpose of the film’s title: the harmful animals ain’t the sharks.

I like sharks in actual life, so it’s at all times been bizarre to be such a fan of flicks that paint them as monsters. Dangerous Animals manages to make an ethical assertion about sharks as pure beings whereas additionally delivering the bloody items.

Dangerous Animals has a dedicated forged, knockout path, a stellar script, it seems to be beautiful, the edit is the tightest I’ve seen from any film this yr, and it’s a ripper of a flick. If you’re on the lookout for an unique story that fires on all cylinders, you’ve got to put aside a while for Dangerous Animals. I do know it in all probability gained’t be anybody else’s favourite film of the yr, nevertheless it’s actually aiming for the highest of the heap in my guide.