Crawl (I) (2019) User Reviews (1,111)

It delivers what it promises!

[aimeedingman-44075 · 7/10 · 10 August 2019]

Listen, you know this movie isn't "good". It's not "film". You're not going to bring this up in a conversation with your intellectual friends when discussing "cinema". It's a simple movie about a a simple college student who works out her emotional trauma by being beset by alligators in (and out!) of a simple crawlspace.

It's not really very scary, but it is satisfying and replete with alligators. You will see people getting eaten! You will scream at characters to do the opposite of what they are currently doing! You will marvel at how slowly one can outrun an alligator! You will probably laugh a little, because, come on.

But you won't regret the experience. Sometimes movies can just be movies. This one is a perfect popcorn muncher.

An Enjoyable Watch

[Neon_Gold · 6/10 · 21 June 2020]

I really enjoyed this movie, particularly at the start. It did kinda lose momentum as it went on but the first 40 had me hooked.

I would say it's better than your average "Shark film" for a lack of better term. "Creature" movie maybe. It has a little bit more going for it and shakes it up a little bit.

I feel like it didn't have a huge budget but this is where it impresses me as it did a lot with what it had.

The acting is fine nothing great but you don't really watch this type of movie for that.

You should give it a watch if you like this type of movie I think you would enjoy it.

Simple yet Entertaining Monster Movie

[Jared_Andrews · 6/10 · 25 January 2020]

In the ilk of "Jaws" homages (and rip offs), "Crawl" stands as one of the more palatable entrees.

There's nothing spectacular or groundbreaking about this fun summer riff, but that doesn't mean it offers no value. At the very least, we can celebrate the successful effort to make a non-sequel or movie based on preexisting IP. Granted, the threatening water predator vs. humans rose in the wake of the classic shark film, but this gator flick has enough original juice to stand firmly on its own.

Part of success comes from simple premise of "Crawl." In the opening phase of a Category 5 storm, a young woman, Haley, receives a call from her sister. Sis has been calling their dad and hasn't yet heard from him. She's worried, as he resides in the area slated to take the worst of the storm. Haley opts to brave the weather, make the two-hour trek and check on dear old dad.

When she arrives at his place, she finds her severely injured father and something even more concerning. Then she quickly understands why he hasn't picked up the phone.

Queue the giant alligators and ensuing chases that take place as Haley and her dad attempt to escape the flooded basement. Fortunately, Haley is a swimmer at the University of Florida, yes, the school with the gator mascot. Her speed and resilience make her a worthy adversary to the collection of gators, and she manages to narrowly avoid death in a string of riveting action scenes.

A few meandering moments explore family drama but don't do much more than fill time. These moments feel entirely forced and only serve to hinder the story's momentum.

The movie is at its best when it leans into the raw and truly frightening action sequences. Kaya Scoldelario displays a knack for playing a strong woman in peril. The movie doesn't work as well if she isn't so solid in the role of Haley.

The movie has no more depth than the shallow basement waters inhabited by the gators, but it's entertaining enough for cursory viewing experience, especially given the brisk 87-minute run time.

Laughable yet thrilling

[NYAmicas · 6/10 · 29 July 2019]

I cannot rate this as a 7 because this isn't a very memorable film although it is thrilling and we'll made. Once the conflict begins you are on the edge of your seat with worry for the protagonists it is when they waste screen time with unnecessary dialogue that have nothing to do with the dangers at hand the movie appears campy.

I did enjoy the performances of the small cast and of course the gators. It's a pretty fun filled movie so give it a shot.

A Nicely done Creature-Feature with an appropriate lenght for its Genre.

[SangeetaChaturvedi · 7/10 · 10 July 2020]

A bit of a surprise and a tense and terrifying one at that. It knows what it is and because of that it's able to do what it does and do it well. Good looking Alligators.

Tension is maintained with a solid background music, cool effects, nice cinematography with the constant rain and wind, vicious kills but extras r jus added to be killed off.

[Fella_shibby · 7/10 · 25 August 2019]

I saw this in a theatre with my pal. Had high hopes with names like Aja, Raimi n Ghost House Pictures. The film is fast paced with sufficient kills. Only problem is the lack of character development of the extras. The last good crocodile film I revisited was Rogue n that film had some character development regarding the extras (fellas who get killed off) but in this film, extras r jus killed left right n cente, while our lead pair of father n daughter keeps hanging around in their basement with wounds. One of the best part about this film is the cinematography especially the constant rain n wind. Lots of crocodiles with vicious kills. Tension is maintained with a solid background music. Morgan Freeman's Hard Rain n Bait 3D came to mind while viewing this.

Crawl

[0U · 13 February 2020]

Nice and gritty little survival game of wits as a dad and his intrepid daughter try to get through no less than a hurricane just as the floodwaters release a hungry bevy of beauteous and bodacious alligators. Doesn't feel cheap or rushed and with loads of "what's that shadow moving under the water" tension.

Stressful and entertaining at will

[FrenchEddieFelson · 6/10 · 26 July 2019]

Despite 3 or 4 irritating scenes that transpire script mediocrity with let's say 1 or 2 appalling minutes, the film manages to scare the audience with panache, at least me anyway. I was indeed gesticulating in my armchair each time an alligator grabbed and shook a protagonist. Actually, it's not really surprising: as an euphemism, in the horror / thriller genre, Alexandre Aja is definitely not a padawan. Thus, Alexandre Aja has managed an effective film that successfully fulfills his objective: to keep the audience on the edge of the seat during 90 minutes.

I liked it for a while but became ridiculous

[muamba_eats_toast · 4/10 · 29 July 2019]

I was just about still on board by the time they left the house despite a few cringe moments but after that it just became more and more ridiculous. More plot holes than any film I've ever seen. We ignoring that crocodiles can smell blood and apparently serious injuries won't stop you swimming like an Olympic swimmer moments later. If you do decide to go and see it try and suspend all notions of reality and you may be able to battle through and ignore any of the horrific cringey as hell script and you may just shout survive...

Crawl is what it's supposed to be

[sjhollen · 6/10 · 19 July 2019]

Crawl is what it's supposed to be. It's a film that reminds you of summer and will catch your interest because of the time of year. That's what deep blue sea was designed to be, that's what Jaws was supposed to be, 47 meters down, Twister. I can go on. Some of these hold up over time because they over achieved what they were supposed to be. Ahem, Jaws. This movie more than likely will not hold up.

This movie is entertaining but it is very hard not to laugh or shake your head. The alligators behave like beasts and they look like Godzilla. I was under the impression going in that this movie would be at least a little realistic, but that is not the case. While these alligators are behemoths, they cannot swim faster than the main character (I actually forget her name), for she is superhuman.

I probably will not watch this movie again, however it was entertaining because I saw it with a few friends and we laughed the entire time. This movie is what's supposed to be, the "summer blockbuster " movie this year. You can tell just by the feel of it, however I don't think it'll hold up very well. It's not even in the same discussion as Jaws, to compare it would be disrespectful. Deep blue sea is even better than this.

It's worth checking out, just don't think rationally or expect realism.

You have got to be joking

[elizrug · 2/10 · 17 July 2019]

I cannot even begin to understand how anyone could rate this highly. I am starting to really question whether people are paid to write fake reviews.

1. No person can out-swim an alligator 2. If a gator grabs your arm or leg, you will be missing an arm or leg 3. Dried blood will not stick to your skin after you have spent hours underwater 4. Every decision made by the protagonists was stupid and wrong 5. The whole "Oh, why did you and mom break up?" part while they are dying is so far-fetched, I wanted to gag

I could keep going but not even the review is woth too much of my time.

Sneaky

[kosmasp · 8/10 · 3 October 2019]

It is easy to dismiss horror and even easier to do so with scares (jump or otherwise, but the former are the ones most "target"). But to dimish what the movie accomplishes would be unfair to everyone involved. The director and editor really know their stuff. The movie has quite some really good scares! Even when you know something is coming, it really hits home. Or in this case the viewer who might have quite the reaction to it (that's what shocks are going to you and your jerking body).

Having said all that, I do understand if some feel this is simple and not to mention way over the top. There's things happening that no human being would do and/or survive and Alligators are probably not as hungry as they are shown here. But suspend your disbelief and just enjoy the ride, with some fantastic horror performances! Not to mention amazing sets and suspense!

Crawl is not small!

[hitchcockthelegend · 7/10 · 20 June 2020]

The latest in what is proving to be a long line of Croc/Gator horror films, this one holds its head above water (hrr hrr hrr). The premise and setting puts a new slant on things, which is nice to see. It's a two hander, where as a father and daughter pairing, Barry Pepper and Kaya Scodelario make up the bulk of the narrative - they are also under or in water for 98% of the film! The effects work is nifty, the blood letting attention grabbing and thrills are never ever far away. 7/10

the dumbness knows no bounds

[FeastMode · 1/10 · 24 November 2019]

This is another example where i'm baffled by the reviews. After watching it, i was expecting to see negative scores on rotten tomatoes, IMDb and from my favorite youtube reviewers. Not only did it receive high ratings on both sites, but every one of the youtube reviewers i like gave it positive reviews. I hate being suspicious, but what were you guys watching.

This movie is absolute garbage. And i really wasn't expecting much in the first place. A half decent and mildly entertaining movie would have satisfied my thirst. But this movie is TERRIBLE.

The amount of dumb things that i want to make fun of could fill an essay. The extent of the stupidity in the decision making is mind-bottling (it traps your thoughts in a bottle lol). I generally try to let things slide and try not to focus on small dumb things, but these were GLARING. I wanted to yell at the screen, which is rare for me. It was driving me nuts.

The acting was okay. From a technical aspect is was serviceable. But this movie had very little entertainment for me. It was zero scary, not even startling. I didn't care about the characters. It was SOOOOO predictable. I guessed like 20 things that were about to happen. Immediately. It wasn't even a question.

In summation, this movie was awful. And i really wonder if money is tainting some of the reception it's receiving. (1 viewing 11/22/19)

SPOILERS

i'm going to try to list as many things as i can remember. The first and maybe worst thing for me happened very early in the movie. She goes into this "crawl space" that's more like a basement. When i first saw it i assumed she would be able to stand. She starts crawling in dirty mud-water, with mice everywhere, giant piles of feces, and dead and rotting animals. So i start thinking, maybe i'm wrong. But they would show these angles that clearly shows there is at least 5 feet of room to stand, if not more. At worst, she would have to crouch a little. But give me back pain over crawling in disgustingness. And to make it worse, the rest of the movie they show them standing up like it's normal. W....... T....... H...... drove me nuts. This is more of an idiotic director decision than a dumb character decision

it's going to take to long to list everything so how about just the worst dumb character decision. They are in a safe area where the crocs can't get em. But the phone is outside of this area. She needs to get it! She's gonna do it! Jump over the barrier. Get it quick and come, 2 seconds no problem. But she needs her dad to distract with conversation.

Okay fine. Dad, give her an easy convo to keep her distracted. Nope, dad starts talking about serious stuff that's been brewing for years. Are you DUMB. Daughter says dad stop i need to focus. BUT YOU ASKED FOR A DISTRACTION.

This is all happening while she's in the dangerous area. A minute passes. The phone isn't that far!!! Whatever, finally she got it. Now she'll run back to the safe area and make a call............................

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are you KIDDING ME. She starts making a call in the dangerous area. BRO. BRO. BRO. I wanted to flip out. This is unacceptable. Either the director is such an oblivious moron who doesn't understand the situation he's directing, or he knows and intentionally did it this way to create more tension using a scenario that makes zero possible sense and makes you want the character to die from how dumb they are. UNACCEPTABLE.

Of course the gator sees her during the call, she loses the phone and it gets stepped on. Guys. How could you possibly give this a positive review. This is just one thing. I wrote 5 paragraphs about one, just ONE, dumb moment. There are many many more.

Unbelievable

[mhorg2018 · 4 April 2020]

When I see a movie, there are some things I'll tolerate - Tarzan, a superhuman outswimming an alligator ok. An 80 pound Olympic swimmer, who gets grabbed by these giant, prehistoric monsters no less than FOUR times? No, sorry. A stupid story and lame sfx equal a bad movie. This goes from dumb to dumber to dumbest on a matter of minutes. While it's true that a strong human can hold an alligator's mouth shut, once it closes on prey, it drags them to the bottom where, once drowned, they are eaten. Pops splitting ones head open with a shovel was almost believable. This was stupid on a new level - even dumber than the directors lame remake of piranha! At least, surprisingly, the dog lived!

Fast fun movie

[ybissat · 7/10 · 12 July 2019]

It's a little fun movie with some good jump scares here and there. Didn't know alligators could be this scary. It's a short movie and the actors did a pretty good job. If you're looking for something fun to watch, Crawl might please you.

Cheesy and campy, but good old fashioned horror entertainment...

[paul_haakonsen · 6/10 · 28 September 2019]

Right, well initially I had some reluctance about sitting down to watch the 2019 movie "Crawl" given the rather poor reviews I had been reading of the movie in local media. But still, I was given the chance to sit down and watch "Crawl", and given the fact that I love movies and believe everything deserves a chance to be seen at least once, then of course I sat down to watch it.

Turns out that I definitely does not share the opinions of the people whose reviews I had been browsing through, because I was more than genuinely entertained with "Crawl".

Sure, the movie had its fair share of cheesy and campy moments, and there were times throughout the movie where you just cringed and curled up your toes, but this is a movie after all, not real life. This is meant for entertainment. And I was entertained. Indeed, things like water suddenly rising up to the roof of a building seemed so far out there that it was painful, and the fact that an alligator wasn't able to crash through a lousy plexiglass shower stall was just downright idiotic. But it was entertaining, and that is what mattered. A movie such as "Crawl" is not meant to be realistic, not even in the least bit, because if it was then the people would not have stood a chance against all those alligators and the rampart forces of nature.

Now, there is a feeling of old school claustrophobic horror movie to "Crawl", and that worked so well in favor of the movie, especially because it often felt like you were trapped in the cellar alongside with Haley (played by Kaya Scodelario) and Dave (played by Barry Pepper).

The special effects and CGI used in "Crawl" were good, very good actually, and the alligators were quite realistic. That definitely worked well in favor of the movie and the enjoyment of the movie.

"Crawl" is by no means a movie that revolutionizes the horror genre, nor is it a movie that brings anything new to the genre. But it is definitely entertaining and enjoyable for what it turned out to be.

My rating of "Crawl" is a solid six out of ten stars.

Its a movie

[tgainey14 · 7/10 · 20 September 2020]

I love how people think every movie needs to be oscar worthy to be watchable. Yes its a ridiculous premise but its not meant to be eye opening. Just enjoy the dumb creature violence like everyone used to.

Decent if not exceptional

[andyajoflaherty · 7/10 · 10 April 2023]

Crawl concerns itself with a young woman who goes looking for her missing father in the eye of a hurricane. Eventually she finds him in the basement of the family holiday home, but he is injured and in desperate need of medical attention. There is also the growing problem of this being gator central, and the rapidly rising flood waters are giving them free reign around the town. So the quest to not drown or get eaten begins...

Despite being mostly enjoyable this film didn't really push the boat out (heheh) in any way. For 90% of the film there were just 2 characters, so the film is light on deaths, and when some random no-mark would show up you knew they'd soon be a victim. The gator effects were.... decent and the plot and atmosphere servicable. If you've seen any monster movies at all ever you will know exactly what to expect, but having said that if the concept appeals it's perfectly watchable.

I can't even with this steaming pile of Gator

[myduster · 1/10 · 7 January 2020]

Oh dear God, where do I start with this one? Clearly the filmmakers have never set foot in Florida. First and foremost, there are NO crawlspaces or basements in Fla. There are very few cities where this is an exception. She tells her sister she is driving 2 hrs south on I75 from UF so that puts her squarely in Tampa. There are NO crawl spaces. None, zip, zilch, nada!!! The house is not definitely not a style found in Fla. And even the garage door is a dead giveaway. And there are no levees in Tampa. Girl gets told by her sister that there's a cat 5 currently hitting Fla and she's shocked, shocked I tell you! She would have had a week's advance notice at minimum. With all channels on 24/7 with the hurricane's path. And they would have certainly cancelled a swim meet with a hurricane a minute away! On to the actors. B movie actors, acting in a D script. Has all the hallmarks of a SyFy movie, but with a much weaker production value. Girl gets mauled in the leg by gator. She gets up and starts running! She wouldn't even be standing, but no, Forrest starts running! Gets mauled in the arm later, then starts swimming like Michael Phelps. Later still, girl swimming 5mph outswims 3 gators swimming 20mph. Gets mauled a 3rd time, with a death roll. Managed to keep that arm, then climb like an olympic climber. She's ready for the Gold! Also, Cat 5's have a minimum of 157 mph winds. In this movie, the wind was barely blowing. You would not even be able to stand in a cat 5, let alone float around in a makeshift raft or steal and ATM in a jon boat! And there is almost never thunder and lightning, but for some reason in this movie there was some every few minutes. Other stupid stuff: Eggs take 65 days to hatch, but eggs just laid there earlier that day start hatching. Gators over 9 ft are rare, but in this movie 20 ft seems to be the norm. Daddy dies twice, but miraculously is resurrected TWICE. It's a miracle! There are probably 1000 other things wrong with this movie. NOTE TO FILMMAKERS: Do research before you make a movie. Most of these errors could have been verified with a simple google search.

A dumb family

[jlbbmt10 · 6/10 · 12 August 2022]

These children and there father are all stupid. Why would you drive 2 hours into a hurricane looking for anyone at all? Why would school even allow a swim practice when there is a hurricane in the vicinity of your campus? Then there is the dumb father who goes to his old home during a hurricane instead of evacuating and even goes under the house in an area know for flooding during heavy rains. I found myself rooting for the gators to rid the earth of these idiots...lol.

Good production values and acting but it cant hide a terrible script

[gluonpaul · 4/10 · 23 August 2019]

So there is plenty in this to like, the special effects are decent, the acting is decent and the production values are very good. Unfortunately its all built on the foundations of a very very poor script.

The father seems to only be there to provide someone to constantly need rescuing by the daughter and provide a backdrop of history for the protagonist (often at very stupid times). At one point they had just seen a police officer get torn apart & eaten and he launches into a speech about the daughter learning to swim. I mean really????

On top of that the protagonist is basically the very definition of a mary sue. At one point for instance this huge alligator has her leg clamped in his jaws and this 80 pound woman kicks it in the face with her bare foot to get it to let go, on top of which all she had as an injury was a minor gash on her leg. Absolutely crazy, and this goes on througout the movie, we see her outswim alligators in the water as well for instance.

Overall I have to say with a decent script it could have been a good concept but with some frankly student film level script problems it just isnt that great in my opinion. Not a terrible movie, but not really worth seeking out.

Croc you like a Hurricane!

[shanemoose-88715 · 9/10 · 14 July 2019]

I know that some people are kind of on the fence with this one, but trust me when I say that this really is a fun Creature Feature. 'Crawl' doesn't try to poke fun at itself but is still fun and startling at times. The acting is top-notch and there's plenty of monster violence to quench any Horror fans thirst. So what if it's not the most original film out there, that does not change the fact that this movie has the right amount of tension to keep you hooked.

The dog makes it , relax !!

[kagey-28769 · 6/10 · 23 July 2021]

If you've scene Holy Grail Monty Python and the Knight guarding scene , this is very similar!! Honest It's a bit of fun with an awful lot of water .

In a more serious point , it's pretty enjoyable if not a bit daft . Probably exactly what you'll have already expected.

Terrible

[colinjames-30289 · 1/10 · 26 August 2021]

The graphics were alright but the writing sucked. They made the girl make the stupidest decisions, they were so dumb it would make you mad and want to turn it off 👎