Flares
Did it ever explain who fired off the flares toward the beginning of the movie?
shareI think a minor attempt was made. They do come across a sunken boat & at the beginning before they guy goes into the store for coffee, they have a quick shot of a newspaper that says something like "Fishing boat, 3 missing". If that was the explaination, my problem would be that they had been missing at least a day to be in the paper, yet were still alive a day later to shoot the flares, but then killed in the 15 minutes it took that tour boat to go a mile or two.
shareThe tour boat, and Neil's power boat, were obviously not the only boats that far upriver.
The newspaper article was a kind of heads-up to the fact that there was something out there attacking fishing boats, before the story even starts. The flares were from a different boat again, but an indication that the croc was out there and active. (And obviously serve the purpose in the plot of getting the tourist boat to go upriver and into the croc's territory.)
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
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