Director: Jim Wynorski
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
After escaping from a top-secret research lab in Hawaii, a hunter, a government spy, and a forest ranger team up together to battle the deadly, giant mutated crocodiles who are terrorizing the populace.
Review:
This was another fantastic entry for the Sci-Fi Channel. Among the great stuff here is the absolutely fantastic amount of action within this as there's an absolutely relentless pace that is quite fun. This one offers the usual assortment of lengthy scenes and rather fun quick attacks that get quite enjoyable here, starting with the early scenes like the water-fall ambush on the couple or a pretty chilling attack at a group of hot springs that are designed as short, shocking sequences to get some fun into this.
The longer scenes are also quite a bit of fun as there's even more here starting with the opening escape where it goes charging after the workers both in the open and hiding away, the enjoyable cheesy attack on the commandos with it's lengthy firefights and battle tactics, creature stomping and tons of rather fun assaults against the troops as well as a couple of intense chases which includes both the attack on the students in the jungle as well as a thrilling jeep chase that has a lot to like about it.
The two big highlights, though, include the tour-boat ambush as there's the suspense of stalking the driver, the action and spectacle of it chasing everyone and finally leading into the movie's best part which is clearly the creature's fight with each other. It's long, drawn-out and gets some good time here to really let the two go at it while allowing for a few small mini-battles as the attempts to prevent either one escaping leads to some rather nice and worthy diversions to keep this one going.
These here are more than enough to hold off the film's few problems, which starts with the usually risible CGI featured throughout here as there's very little about it that looks good or convincing no matter how good the creatures' looks and designs are. As this is to be expected, it doesn't harm the film as much as the inherently ludicrous, beyond lame science given for the creatures and their existence. There's hardly anything realistic or remotely accurate here about the creation of each creature and how each one is engineered into existence which doesn't seem the slightly bit logical or realistic. Beyond these issues, the only other part that doesn't seem all that interesting is the fact that there's just no variation whatsoever in it's kills as everyone is either stomped or or chomped and that can really impact that gore in here with the sameness of the kills. These here are what hold the film down.
Overview: ***1/2/5
While it has some rather laughable elements that are purely commonplace in these types of genre efforts, the fact that there's a lot of fine cheesy goodness that's usually on display in these efforts makes for quite the fun factor. Give this a try if you're a diehard creature feature fanatic or a total apologist for the channel's fare, while those that have no interest in the slightest should avoid like the plague.
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