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· Year: 2000
· Director: Tobe Hooper
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Part of the Crocodile series.
· Followed by Crocodile 2.
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Friends out for a fun trip down a river are hunted and devoured by a giant crocodile.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 1.75 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 2.25 -GORE |
| 0.5 -HUMOR |
| 0.5 -SCARES |
| 0.25 -TENSION |
Tobe Hooper is capable of directing with a sure hand and a creepy style. Witness The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Salem's Lot, and the pilot for television's Nowhere Man, in which Hooper helped set the oppressive, conspiratorially-minded tone of that late, great series. Stinkers like Crocodile haven't made me lose hope in Mr. Hooper, but they do make me believe that he's limited by the strength of the material he's given.
And what material he is given here. Or, better put, what material is he given here? Crocodile suffers from the same disease of undercharacterization that has befallen so many of its peers. If we don't care about the characters, we don't care when they get eaten by a crocodile that would give a Humvee a run for its money in terms of size and mass/weight ratio, not to mention fuel consumption. Of course, the fuel here is the aforementioned young adults, most of whom exist solely to spout inane dialogue and avoid being chomped. Until their number's up, of course. Crocodile is a bore from start to finish; even the completely implausible sight of the crocodile taking flight failed to shake me from the stupor induced by this movie.
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