Wordiezett So much average

Lawbolisted Powerful

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

GL84 When a group of vacationing college students accidentally steal a mother crocodile's eggs from her nest, she unleashes a torrent of vengeance upon them and forcing them to team up with a pair of hunters to survive the slaughter.This here was a pretty enjoyable and reasonably entertaining killer creature feature that has some pretty good parts. The fact that this one is fairly cheesy is its greatest asset, making the film both enormously cheesy as well as generating its biggest flaw. By featuring the attacks with the CGI creature as the main attraction and using the admittedly-excellent animatronic in spurts where it looks ultra-convincing throughout these moments, it gets a lot of fun out of what is essentially a slasher movie with the villain being an unstoppable crocodile instead of a human. The three main attacks, the riverboat attacked when it's docked away, the foot-chase through the woods and the super-market attack, are given a good mixture of both uses for the creature but are the films' big action moments so there's a lot to like from there as well as giving the film some color with it's brutal and bloody deaths. With limbs ripped off, decapitations, death rolls and even live devouring, it's got more than expected in here and that's a fairly nice addition. Still, the cheesiness of the fake-shark, the cliché plot points and even character additions and utterly annoying main cast that are given lame story lines that aren't fun to follow along can provide this one with some problems.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, and scenes of substance abuse.

trashgang I came across this flick combined with part 2 on a sell out of DVD's. Naturally I picked it up because I saw the name Tobe Hooper and for special effects I saw KNB, what could go wrong. Everything goes wrong. I have seen all the classics directed by Hooper and they were all great, so many to mention but let me just say Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) but this one was rather good on the part of directing but I guess that's all that worked. The effects are for the most part CGI and one of the kind that looks like done by old computers. The croc never looked believable and made moves that a croc never could make. He even jumps into the air. But it's really the script that sucks. This has nothing to do with the croc, this has everything to do with love stories and affairs. The CGI is laughable but the story goes that it was meant to be a bad movie on all accounts. I just can't believe that KNB or even Tobe would go for such a flick. And what was the part that KNB did, the croc in the water? Nothing is gory or whatsoever and aren't they known for their gore? The acting is also something that good have been better. But most of the actors were doing their first flick here and it really shows. You just couldn't care about who is going to be eaten by the croc. I haven't got any problem with bad movies but this one really had nothing to offer. I rather would go for those old Drive-in flicks or exploitations but this, no thank you.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Bloodwank Of the various horror notables to emerge in the 1970's Tobe Hooper scored by far the finest achievement with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Its a great shame then that he also fell the hardest, his work largely drying up and turning crappy. This Nu Image (they of such classics as Octopus, Spiders, Octopus 2 and Spiders 2) effort is pretty much his nadir, a really crummy affair that manages to be less entertaining even than the massed crappy ranks of Sci Fi Channel original creature features that have befouled screens in recent years. Its a tale of youngsters on Spring Break, partying it up on a houseboat in a lake until a couple of them come across a nest of variously shattered eggs and decide to mess around with the few that aren't broken some more. The expected happens. Now, I have absolutely zero sympathy for anyone who gets themself into a situation like this, quite apart from common decency its a matter of basic common sense not to mess with someones young, especially when you have no idea what or how big that someone is. Like, if you were trying to steal eggs from a golden eagle and the thing came down and pecked your eyes out and then pooped on you or something, nobody would be sympathetic because rank idiocy isn't a thing of sympathy. So I pretty much wanted several of the cast to die particularly horribly, and I can't say as I had nice thoughts for the rest as none of the characters are likable or interesting. Sadly, the horrible death never comes. All the kills are pretty tame, when actually on screen they generally come down to nothing more than mildly bloody and not especially convincing chomping action and occasionally some minor blood spray. It pretty much ruins things as gore was the main thing that could have propped this one up, and is especially unfortunate as the usually great KNB team handled the effects work. The crocodile itself is at least pretty cool, a good sized and decently fierce looking beast achieved through a mixture of animatronics and CGI, its more than convincing enough for a film of this stature and raises the game whenever its on screen. But since it isn't on screen all that much and rarely gets to do anything cool (mostly its just jumping and gobbling people) it doesn't raise the film too much. Still, attacks on a houseboat and local store are kinda fun and it does amuse in a couple of spots. The cast do their best with the material but its pretty much horrid so they don't put across a good impression. Mark McLachlan is a limp hero, Caitlin Martin a nice looking but dull love interest, Chris Solari making the biggest impression as the loud mouth ass of the group. There's some nice scenery and the film is never completely boring, but its really pretty terrible and I wouldn't recommend it other than to the least discerning viewers.

doug1967_1 Possible spoilers here! I'm giving this a five rating based mostly on the good faith of director Tobe Hooper. He's made some wonderful movies in the past and I know he still has a few good ones in there still. But this was rather disappointing. A bigger budget would have helped since most of the crocodile sequences are clearly a plastic-looking model being pulled through the water.The plot involves eight pinheads who go to get good and drunk on spring break. They stay on a houseboat in a lake where a large crocodile (supposedly over a hundred years old) lives. Mayhem ensues when the croc's eggs are destroyed by a couple of yahoos who have no other connection to the plot other than to destroy the eggs and become dinner for the croc.One of the movie's real faults is that some of the characters are just so damned obnoxious you just want them to be eaten and out of the film already. (Duncan especially!) Also the old guy who informs everyone about the crocodile and its habits who spits tobacco (at least I assume it's tobacco) after delivering every other line. This guy spits and spits and spits! Okay, we get it already. Thank you.On the plus side the women are all cute in their bikinis and it is refreshing to see that most of the crocodile effects are on-set physical effects rather than CGI (which is used minimally here). But still in some shots it's just painfully obvious a floating puppet is used for the crocodile.A subplot about one of the characters betraying one of the women actually gives this more depth than you'd expect from a low-budget creature movie.That said, it's actually still better than most drivel that airs on Sci-Fi Channel (where this turned up recently I noticed) and there are a few really good "jump" moments.Please try again, Mr. Hooper. I still think you're a good horror director.