the make for tv film primal force begin with frank brodie ( ron pearlman ) wake up from a recur nightmare about his mate be kill by some baboon . there be a knock on frank door and he answer it and stand before him be a guy name scott davis ( mark kiely ) who have be tell that he know san miguel island well than anyone else and that he need his help to lead a rescue mission a a plane recently crash there . eventually brodie agrees and together with a female medic name tara matthew ( roxana zal ) a computer guy name stan kovacs ( julian sedgwick ) and eddie mendoza ( guillermo rio ) who carry a gun and get in the way and do very little else and they set off for san miguel island . meanwhile on the island itself the three survivor and the pilot ( jimy hefner ) and a real estate guy name deutsch ( richard fancy ) and a pretty young girl name kelsey cunningham ( kimberlee peterson ) whose father be interested in buy the island and be decide what to do when a group of vicious genetically alter baboon kill the pilot . kelsey and deutsch just sort of run away . our heavily arm group of rescuer and lead by brodie and arrive on the island via boat . scott feel brodie be withhold some information but they troop on regardless of all the human and animal skull they find . they find kelsey and deutsch but they be all attack by the genetic baboon . the baboon now know theyre on the island and will stop at nothing to kill the intruder a brodie have to use his experience and firepower to keep everyone alive and with vary degree of success . if that wasn not enough the guy ( bruno danza ) drive the boat have bugger off leave them strand and the baboon have kill kovacs and destroy the radio equipment . a the survivor run low on ammo and morale they decide to fight back against the baboon . direct by nelson mccormick i think primal force be an ok time waster but nothing that overly impress me . the script by micheal thoma be about as clichéd a you expect of this sort of low budget tv production . first the character and there the moody and unshaven hero with personal demon to exorcise but turn out be be a throughly decent chap in the end and the clean cut hero and the computer whizz and the tough female character and the token nobody who be there to die and nothing else just so something happens and the character who have other more mysterious motif for be on the island . the innocent plane crash victim aren not any good with the young pretty girl who scream a lot and the annoy selfish fat guy who doesn not care about anyone but himself . then there the story and a group become strand in an isolated location and can not call for help and sound familiar . group encounter live threat that want to kill them all for no real reason at all and group run low on ammo even though they never actually run out and have to come up with other way to defeat their enemy in a nail biting ( not ) climax and be do yeah . genetic experiment go wrong . one character who get abduct by the enemy and be not kill for some unexplained reason unlike everyone else who be kill on sight . you probably get the message . have say all that for what it be i think primal force be ok and roll out the clichés with a certain degree of entertainment value . ron pearlman a the muscle bound and wise cracking brodie be great and almost make primal force worth watch on his own and everyone else be utterly forgettable . unfortunately one area where primal force lose a couple of star be in the violence department and basically it hasn not get any . this be obviously make with a fairly young teenage audience in mind a the blood and gore and nastiness be keep to an absolute minimum . the killer baboon be just people in monkey suit and nothing particularly spectacular . technically primal force be ok and it very mtv in style with quick cut and jerky hand hold camera movement during the attack and slow motion and bleach colour and every other flashy pointless trick you can think of . on the plus side the mexican location on occasion look stun and a few nice shot here and there capture it well . overall primal force isn not particularly good and but it ain not particularly bad either just sort of average and i think a decent help of blood and gore would have help no end to improve it .