Review of Endangered Species

I admit, the acting and the stupidity of the characters is classic dumb. But the film is actually suspenseful and engaging. The low stars for these things makes me wonder what they were expecting. Hopefully, we all know better than to take glass bottles on a safari. But that's part of the way the film makes us all feel so much smarter than the characters. Everything these characters do is super dumb -- going on a safari alone without a gun; getting closer for a picture of a massive Rhino while the inexperienced driver is at the wheel... But believe it or not, these are actually some of the dumb things people do in situations they aren't familiar with who are basing their decisions only on their limited knowledge or lack of it. I felt the film had a message and I'm sad that so many people didn't understand the message and chose instead to nitpick the lack of intelligence or, in some cases, imagine they're seeing some woke theme (from people who see the entire world as one political pole or the other). This isn't all that different from the stupidity of the characters in Jurassic Park and yet that film has high scores because of the high cost to make it. That's what you call hypocrisy.