This a pretty solid example of a movie that starts off the test with a 70% and then just never gets any pros and every con is just unopposed.

On the proside this movie has a plot that works. It's not the most original for sure but it doesn't need to be in order to be a good movie. It's just a solid good plot. The problem with this movie isn't the TERRIBLE CGI animals. That is _a_ problem for sure. Hippos are huge and monstrous and somehow that one in this movie looked small on top of being fake. The acting is subpar but it's perfectly serviceable. The chemistry is average. The choreography is as uninspired as the weapons are silly.

The real problem is these movies follow an established order and the writing here is so bad it doesn't work. You really want Mason and Rina to have sexual chemistry. That it makes sense he fights so hard to protect her. Everyone talks like that's what's happening but we never see it. There wasn't ample time for it and what time they did have didn't work. Rina is a mob wife but she's feisty it's not unreasonable that as someone who works with bad guys all the time might appreciate and respect her for that but we never see it and it's a missed opportunity to justify this movie.