"Clocking a little under 90 minutes, he also keeps the pace lean and tight while finding efficient time to establish the estranged daughter-father relationship between Kaya Scodelario's Haley and Barry Pepper's Dave without stalling the momentum. It also helps that both of them each give above-average performances, which are actually saying a lot for this kind of genre movie... Kudos also go to Aja for staging some of the effective yet well-timed suspenseful moments, particularly the way he executes close calls and near-death experiences during the few encounters with one or sometimes more alligators. Several jump scares are also employed in this movie but thankfully, Aja does not utilise them for the sake of cheap thrills just to evoke the viewers' reactions." - Casey Chong, Casey's Movie Mania