Crocodile 2: Death Swamp Reviews

If, after the first two minutes of this movie, when the fiancé tells the flight attendant that the antique lighter he sent her as a gift takes several snaps before it catches fire, you don't know that the lighter will become an essential tool to her survival and the fiery finale of the film 93 minutes later, then you have not earned enough credits to graduate Bad B-Movie 103. True, there is a lot of briskly edited action on the screen -- the opening bank robbery is violently, wonderfully pointless, the plane crash is disturbingly convincing -- and the gigantic critter is realistic enough in both its computer-generated and animatronic versions, but the story and dialogue are so contrived and derivative as to be numbing. If it's just visuals you seek, then soak your eyes on this film's crocodile-attacks-helicopter scene, the crocodile-destroys-building scene, and the madness that is the crocodile-pulls-hateful-lawyer-from-window shot. You can still redeem yourself in Bad B-Movie 103 if you honestly say you knew the romantic ending at the poolside was a false-bottom psyche-out for one more look at the crocodile.