Crocodile

How could a movie about college kids going to Spring Break on a house boat be bad?  Right?  Well, Crocodile makes it bad.

 

These college kids get on a houseboat and head off to a secluded part of the area and set up camp.  In the distance, there are the remains of a hotel that was burned down.  Legend has it that the owners of the hotel had a crocodile that was direct descendants from Egyptian pharaohs.  The legend is told around the campfire and is supposed to scare one of the girls.

 

Two fisherman, on a wildlife preserve, decide to destroy a nest of eggs that they come across.  Always a good idea to do that on a preserve.  The first fisherman becomes a mist of blood when the croc attacks.  The second on heads back to the car, where he is attacked and killed.  And unlike any other act of defiance that I have ever seen before by a computer generated creature, it then pushes the car into the water to cover the crime.  Pretty smart.

 

The kids get picked off one by one.  There are some pretty weak death scenes.  Breaking through the hull of the houseboat, the croc destroys the vessel and the kids have to swim to shore.

 

The sheriff begins to investigate the missing fisherman and notices the destroyed nest.  He brings one of the egg shells to a local gator farm to try and see if they can make anything out of the shell.  It's really over the top when one of the workers shows up at the office, bleeding because the gators "don't like getting their teeth brushed".  Was that really necessary?

 

It's not until the very end of the movie when the croc finally does something cool.  A full water breach, spinning the entire time, over the sheriff's boat.  The croc does survive.  Do I smell a sequel?  You betcha!

 

I give this movie 1/2 out of 5 Egyptian crocodiles.