Crocodile 2: Death Roll (2002)

Plot Outline: A team of criminals carrying stolen money hijack a passenger plane during a storm. But the plane crash lands in a Mexican swamp where the survivors are picked off by a giant crocodile.

The Review: Rolling straight off the production line of "monster on the loose" films, Crocodile 2: Death Roll is about as woeful as one can expect from this genre. Granted there are a few moments of decent gore and deaths, coupled with a pretty quick pace to the film - but this is about as far as the goodness goes. The rest of the film sucks. The animatronic crocodile looks pretty mean but they don't use this very often and rely on some unimpressive CGI to give our crocodile some life. Let me tell you a 5 year old with a Commodore 64 could do better at times. There is also a pretty stupid plane crash scene (see Final Destination on to make a plane crash look scary as hell) and some crappy special effects for this too. Martin Kove pops up here somewhere as a tracker and his performance is arguably the best part of the film. I always liked him from The Karate Kid and had to watch that film again straight after watching this to remind myself that Kove could actually play a decent character. But the rest of the cast is shocking - the criminals are particularly over-acted and the script has them saying "muthafucka" every couple of words. In trying to sound tough by swearing, these jackasses just sound stupid and make the script writer look even worse in the process. Clichéd characters make clichéd fodder and you can spot who is going to die next ("I'm just going to explore the area on my own for no particular reason"). I know who dies next though - the audience. This is one killer of a film for all of the wrong reasons.

Final Verdict: Crocodile 2: Death Roll is such an apt title - the film seems to drag you under in a death roll with it's utterly crap delivery. Total waste of time and money.

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