Hawco and Gaitán are gifted enough actors to give a dialogue-heavy movie some layers and dynamism; and Beltrán and Pitts throw some intense challenges at their heroes, including bad weather, a poisonous snake and a terrifying corpse.
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The GuardianPhil Hoad
The GuardianPhil Hoad
It doesn’t help that the film takes itself with Deliverance-like seriousness, and fails to really acknowledge its absurdity.
Quicksand swings and misses as the next buzzy nature-born thriller. Beltrán can never decide if he’s making an upscale SYFY B-movie or an overserious examination of marriages so stale that self-destruction seems the only answer.