Director: Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks; Creature Feature
Plot:
Following a series of strange reports, the US Navy hires a shark expert who finds that a gigantic crocodile is loose and laying eggs along the coastal shores and lures a massive great white shark to the creature to have them battle to the death in order to keep them from endangering the public.
Review:
While there's a lot to like considering all the cheese on display, this is still a slight disappointment. Again, what's to like with this one is the multitude of action scenes on display here which features all the typical creature encounters that are so much fun. The shorter encounter here, as per usual here is great as the shark gets a fantastic opening scene here taking down a Navy Destroyer as well as the tests with the testing stages while the croc gets the impressive attack on the diamond mine and the boat-escape which provide this one with all kinds of exciting scenes.
Still, what really helps here is the cheese on display, as the action on-screen from the tons of creature scenes makes this one enjoyable featuring the utter fun of their fight over the eggs along the shoreline, an extended Navy battle out at sea and a great series of lengthy battles at sea when it gets to it as the main highlights come from two big, cheesy action scenes. This one, though, really gets over-the-top and incredibly enjoyable from the CGI action of having two cheese-filled scenes with the rampage through the fleeing city resulting in outstanding action from the military trying to control it and the secondary scenes showing their battle all the way from the destruction of the Panama Canal out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean is overwhelmingly awesome. Added together with a lame storyline perfect for this kind of action, and it makes for the film's best points yet has one key fundamental flaw.
That one factor about this one is the fact that what happens between the two creatures rarely, if ever, matches up to the scenarios presented in the dialog because it rarely matches up to the action as it repeats shots needlessly despite what else is happening on-screen. This also has the traditional utterly terrible CGI that comes into play, especially in regards to the main crocodile since that has more sequences and screen-time resulting in some major showings of the traditional flaws associated with these films. Not only is the size dimensions of the creature pretty disparate but the complete lack of depth and weight to the creatures as well as the uniformly uneven surface of the creatures due to not having any realistic details on their skin which really gives away their low-budget nature. In conjunction with that other issue, really strikes this one as lower than it should be.
Overview: ****/5
Graced with plenty of action, a fantastic amount of cheese and some minor flaws brought about by those elements, overall, this is a solid and enjoyable cheesy creature feature. Give it a shot if you're a fan of that style of film or the studio's output, while those that aren't won't find much to like with this one.
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