‘Endangered Species’ Review: Hyenas Threaten to Tear Apart Family Before They Can Do It Themselves

The other family-imperiled-by-rampaging-beasts movie this weekend, “Endangered Species” is different from “A Quiet Place Part II” in many ways, particularly in that its characters cannot stop yakking — with corresponding diminished viewer concern for their survival under extreme duress.

Mj Bassett’s South African-produced thriller has a vacationing American clan doing all the wrong things in a Kenyan wildlife preserve.

Needless to say, the local fauna quickly notice there are some fresh snacks on the savanna, to our protagonists’ grief.The squabbling human dynamics make this outdoor suspense exercise one in which too soon we start rooting for the four-legged cast members.

Slick and scenic but increasingly silly, by the end it has become perhaps the most preachily wrong-headed wildlife conservation adventure since the notorious “Roar” 40 years ago.

Lionsgate is releasing to digital, VOD and limited theaters, with Blu-ray and DVD following on June 1.Exxon executive Jack Halsey (Philip Winchester) is

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