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After losing one of their ranks to a big and nasty crocodile, a gang of
young and idealistic enviromentalists (Richard Anthony Crenna, Ann
Douglas, Sherrie Rose, Julian Hampton, John Harper) investigating illegal
toxic waste dump sides in some swamplands come to complain to the local
judge (Van Johnson) and demand him to notify the authorities. But the
judge is in league with the very "businessman" (Bill Wohrman)
using the swamplands as a dumping ground, so instead of calling in the ...
oh, whoever he was to call in, he calls in a lone crocodile hunter, Joe
(Ennio Girolami, doing his best Lee Van Cleef-impression here), to take
care of the crocodile. Now our enviromentalists are all up in arms
because they don't want the crocodile to be killed, they want to study it,
and it's only when another one of them (John Harper) is killed that they
change sides and side with Joe. Then though Joe vanishes in a fight
against the crocodile, and now it's up to the two male survivors of the
enviromentalist group (the women are safely tucked away in Joe's house) to
finally take out the beast. Seems they are in it over their heads and are
bound to become croco-food sooner rather than later, until out of nowhere,
Joe pops up again, too battered and injured to fight but at least but
alive enough to give advice - and he tells the guys to fight the crocodile
with their boat's propeller, then throw the boat's engine into the
crocodile's mouth - which immediately causes the crocodile to explode (?). The
End! Ah yeah, and in case you are wondering, the crooked judge and his
business partner did meet their ends courtesy of the crocodile of course. What
is there to say? This is a trashy animal horror movie very much in the
vein of Jaws that doesn't even try to be a good film and as a
result - well, isn't a good film. It's pretty much the type of film you
pick up at your video rental when you have a couple of mates coming over
and a case of beer in the freezer. It's a film that relies on cheap
shocks, is predictable as hell, and doesn't have any redeeming values. You
will have forgotten this in two days the most, but at least while you're
watching it, you aren't bored to death, and you can go take a leak or go
grab another beer at any point during the preceedings, you will have
missed exactly nothing - which is also helped by he fact of course that
you don't really care for any of the characters because they are badly
written and the cast doesn't bother to bring them to life, really. So
no, not at all worth watching - but as a brainless party movie, you still
might want to give it a try ...
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