This Thai entry into the "Nature Strikes Back" genre concerns a rampaging reptile that predictably became an enormous mutant because of atomic testing. When the entire families of two dedicated doctors become snacks for the beast, these two hopeless dummies launch a campaign to find and destroy their nemesis.
I wanted to like this movie more than I did, but as it is, it's a pretty incompetent time-waster, one that wears its "Jaws" influences right on its sleeve. (The final third takes place on the open water with our various "heroes" trying to bait the crocodile and then pump it full of lead.) Most everything about it is lousy: the acting, the dubbing, and the English dialogue is cheesy as Hell, the special effects largely underwhelming (the filmmakers alternate between live footage of a real crocodile and their own dubious animatronic), the music completely ineffective.
Granted, I got *some* enjoyment out of this on a "so bad it's good" - or, at least, "so bad it's amusing" - level, but practically the only worthy component is the gorgeous widescreen photography of the exotic locations.
This is the kind of thing where you root for the monster; it *does* build up quite a good body count, and cause a lot of destruction, before this is over.
Animal lovers will NOT like the moment, however, where a real croc is cut up with a knife.
The American release was "presented" by Herman Cohen ("I Was a Teenage Werewolf") and co-produced by Dick Randall ("Pieces").
Four out of 10.
