06 September 2008

Croc

This film is a mystery. It's not actually a mystery film, but any viewer with even a rudimentary knowlege of modern cinema will immediately struggle to understand why Michael Madsen ( Sin City, Reservoir Dogs ) is in it. Was he that desperate for a paid holiday to Thailand? Did he owe someone a favour? A really, really BIG favour?? This film is awful, and not even Madsen's appearence as a crocodile hunter can save it.
Only a small part of this movie ( which recycles the Jaws story and throws in a touch of Greg McLean's Rogue ) is about the killer croc, and the rest is about shady property development and multiple love interests... Is there anything more pitiful than a wannabe monster movie?
At least we see children being taken... something most filmakers shy away from.

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