Mixed feelings about this one

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2007)

OK, I have seen this movie with high hopes based on some positive reviews from this site. I find that the movie has some qualities and it was an interesting watch but overall it is a pretty bad effort.
I have some serious problems with the logic of the movie regarding the creatures such as:
1. The creatures do not use tools of any kind. There is no way they would survive if they have to rely on their hands and teeth to kill deer etc. Even chimpanzees use "tools" such as branches or stones. There is LOT of stone in the caves and yet not even one creature uses it to fight with.

How exactly do they hunt anything large enough to sustain the "tribe"? How can they overpower large prey at all without heavy casualties, especially on the surface?

2. Lot of controversy regarding their senses. - The creatures cant notice a grown person who is 15-30 cm away?! Not even by smell or touch (in one scene)? They do not even notice the body warmth? They apparently cant see anything (like red camera eye 5 cm from their face)...

... yet in fight scenes they know where their opponents are. Echolocation is not that fast or precise (remember, bats hunt insects and do not actually have to fight their prey), besides in the fights they don't even use it.

3. Near the end of the movie, 2 women fight and kill 3 male hunters. It is pretty clear from a previous scene that grown male creatures can overpower a woman in 1-on-1 combat (which is logical).

Of course, if the creatures are blind, cant smell, don't have very sensitive skin to the touch or temperature, don't have good enough hearing to compensate and don't use weapons of any kind then there is a good chance they would lose the fight :)