okay... so that we're on the same page:

Alligator and Caiman Range: alligators are found in the southern United States and eastern China; caimans are found in Central America and South America
Habitat: grassy swamps and slow-moving rivers

Crocodile Range: Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australia
Habitat: grassy swamps and slow-moving rivers

so endeth the lesson. :D

imdb also states this twist to the plot as well,

This is sounding better and better. Was this just old and sitting around so they released it out of the blue, or did Orlando Jones need work this badly? I need a ridiculous movie break, I'm probably there this weekend.

IMO, it's *very* misleading. I thought it might be something worth seeing, but I'll now be taking it off my list of potential views.

Very misleading, I thought it was about some primitive monster-man or something.

Whether the trailer lied or not, it still looked like a crappy movie.

I'll agree that its very misleading. Though, I'd much rather see a crocodile eating people movie than a serial killer one. As it stands now, I'll wait for Primeval to hit Sci-Fi channel.

I started seeing some new ads tonight that expose the fact that the "serial killer" is not human, and I saw a couple of really quick shots of some bigass crocodile jaws. So maybe this was a plan as a phased roll out of ads that slowly gave more information away. Or maybe they realized that people weren't quite getting the idea of the movie at all.

I've been seeing those tonight as well. Much more accurate advertising, that actually makes it clear that a croc is the killer.

Come on now. This isn't misleading at all! :D


Synopsis:
In one of the most remote places on earth, a bloodthirsty serial killer has claimed over 300 victims, and is still at large to this day. Now, inspired by the true story of the world's most prolific killer, comes PRIMEVAL, a nail-biting horror-thriller that follows an American news crew determined to capture this terrifying murderer alive.

Unless the movie is NOT going to have deafeningly loud sountrack crashes to indicate when we should be scared, then its not misleading

This sucks! I wanted to go to a movie over the weekend that wasn't too overhyped, and I had decided to see this since I thought that it was a serial killer movie, but I don't want to see a freakin' crocodile movie.

The reason the ads are misleading is because of all of that junk about mass graves. No way a croc is digging mass graves.

Ummm... lets just say that there's a good reason they had to mislead you about this "movie." Holy crap was that awful. And not "so awful you need to see how bad" just something you should never allow to waste nearly 2 hours of your life. The dialogue was atrocious, the acting was horrendous, the "story" was hilariously awful, but it was all topped by the sub-SciFi level CGI. I'm going to spoiler the most unintentionally hilarious scene I've seen in a while. Just please stay away from this junk, curiosity got the better of me, but trust me, there's not much I wouldn't have rathered done with 2 hours of my life.

Hope you didn't have to pay to see it.

Just saw it today. All that running on Prison Break must have helped Dominic Purcell in this flick. I'm surprised that Disney financed what was essentially a B horror flick. Also, I was surprised the ads didn't even mention that Purcell was in this flick. Yeah, the dialogue and acting was bad. It will be on DVD by March or April.

It was mildly entertaining. I'd give it a C+

THANK YOU!!! For a minute there I thought I was the only one who was somehow able to see the 2 or 3 frame shots of the crocodile. But is this really a new spot? I could swear it's the same one I've been seeing all along.

Maybe not. To be honest I haven't exactly been riveted to the screeh when this trailer comes on.

The NY Times critic started off his review bitching about the fact that he had to waste $10.50 of the newspaper's money to see this, since there were no critic screenings. After reading his review, I suspect not many readers will be wasting <i>their</i> money.

I noticed on RT it was at 17% (which sounded high). Then I saw there were only 24 reviews (4 fresh). I guess it's another example that it's never good when there are no critic screenings.

"bores relentlessly"

Not what you would want in a rampaging croc movie.

No way is it misleading. All the trailers show a crocodile and say the serial killer isn't human.

How can you not know it's a crocodile movie? That's like being surprised that SSSSSSS is a snake movie.

Perhaps you haven't seen all the ads. There's one they've played a lot here on television. Mentions Jack the Ripper. Mentions the Zodiac killer. Then mentions "Gustave" and calls him a serial killer. No croc is shown, no "he's not human" tag. It's pure deception.

The only one that gets played here, about twice in any given commercial break, shows the croc briefly and says, "he isn't human".

Either way, a movie called Primeval and set in Africa is either going to be about lions, or crocs.

Look, get over it. There was different ads.. most did not show a crocodile at any point.

From Reuters:

"Disney's "Primeval," a thriller with Dominic Purcell and Orlando Jones as part of a news crew pursuing a prolific serial killer, premiered at No. 8 with $6 million."

Would you assume.. a crocodile?

The trailer in theaters shows absolutely nothing about a crocodile.