Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Frances Chung
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
garethspark32
I've seen some dreck masquerading as film, but this really took the biscuit. Dismal, amateurish, pedestrian, gratuitous, moronic drivel without a single redeeming feature. worse than the shabby acting and direction though, was the sense of something nasty lurking at the heart of the movie. Distasteful in the extreme; and quite, quite odd.The structure is quite strange, the characters are cyphers and the direction has a strange, claustrophobic quality that taints every scene with a weird, 1980's-south-african-cinema intensity that's quite nauseating. The Crocodile's utterly out of scale and the child's death is unnecessary and quite vile. I'm unsure what the intention of this piece of cinema was, but I'm quite certain, judging by the confused mish mash vomited onto the screen, that whatever they were, they were not attained. Avoid.
TheLittleSongbird
Seeing as it was SyFy I was not expecting much, but you'd think Croc would be a little more watchable than it actually was. The scenery is very nice, quite luxurious and colourful while allowing a little bit of foreboding also. However everything else equals to a truly terrible movie. The editing and photography are not awful, but there were times with techniques like the quick cuts that they did get rather obvious. A big let down here is the croc, a lame adversary if there ever was one. It is not menacing in the slightest, nothing is done with it as next to nothing is done to explain its origins or why it does what it does and there are even contrived attempts to make it quirky. Even worse is how it looks, not only does it look crude but it seems as though those behind the film were never sure of what size the croc should be as it kept changing in size and length, often alarmingly so. The music is not much better, generic and never enhancing what was going on, while the script is aimless and stilted, the story suffers from too many underdeveloped character sub-plots and contrived attacks and not enough suspense or genuine horror, the pacing is sluggish and the characters are ones that are little different than the usual SyFy creature movie characters and the exposition is so uninteresting that you don't identify with them one bit. The acting is terrible, even from Michael Madsen who looks and sounds as though he didn't want to participate. In conclusion, the scenery is good but the movie is not. 1/10 Bethany Cox
Scarecrow-88
Okay little sci-fi channel monster flick, following the familiar pattern established by "Jaws", with Michael Madsen in the Robert Shaw role of a veteran croc specialist hunting for a large saltwater crocodile that's eating humans within the radius of it's underwater cavernous lair, near a Thai coastal village.The film features greedy corrupt land developers(of course) wanting a croc farmer(..who operates a successful tourist zoo with lots of wild game other than just it's feature attractions), Jack McQuade(Peter Tuinstra)to vacate the premises so that they can confiscate his land for their own financial services. When Jack refuses, they try other desperate measures to force his hand, such as cutting the power, even attempting to run over his sister whose personal funds help sustain his business. When the giant crocodile starts attacking innocent people close to shore, McQuade will join forces with Croc Hawkins(Madsen), a lead-legged hunter with a grudge(..he has a score to settle with the beast, photographs of the many victims it has taken, taped inside his boat's cabin)to find and kill the predatory scavenger.I have to say that Croc, unlike other films of it's type, has some successful attack sequences. I think really only one major sequence looks rather unrealistic, more obvious a CGI concoction when the crocodile attempts to snatch a girl with a puppy in her hand as it bursts through a wooden floor chomping air. I think a more effective attack occurs later within a pool, tearing into(..and apart)victims, leaving a lot of blood and body parts scattered. I thought when the crocodile secures victims in it's mouth, crunching them in one fail swoop, were actually rather well staged. The movie certainly delivers a steady supply of victims to be lunch for the crocodile.The film has a blooming romance between McQuade and a scientist, Evelyn(Sherry Phungprasert), hired initially to shut his zoo down, and Jack's nephew, Theo(Scott Hazell) with a local girl, Chompoo(Duangduean Kumphasee). Chompoo's sister is one of the crocodiles many victims. The film really highlights Thailand, using the people and land as a nice backdrop for this creature feature. Rather low IMDb rating, I've seen a hell of a lot worse than Croc, that's for sure. So-so finale is moderately suspenseful, if predictable. Madsen, while certainly a welcome presence, doesn't really have to flex any acting muscle, maintaining his usual persona of quiet cool.
stumpmee77
Derrived from original Jaws all over it but its of higher quality than other such rip-offs. I attribute it primarily to the setting and the the less predictable script and more emphasis put on characters. The stupid things they do are at the level of "any normal would do". The cast are actors--good ones as I care for those the script permits me to learn about. Terms of victims only 2 I didn't care for and nonetheless I was shuddering whenever or whoever fell victim to the beast. There's several intelligent people in it; love films that don't heap all the answers on one character. The cinematography's good and other than the beast opening its eyes, "beast blink" gets repetitive after a while. But beast eye openings are a small negative--this thing is one vicious creep outcreature.
