Richard Hawes While Tobe Hooper's Crocodile (2000) was very much a poor relation his Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), in both a bunch of teens in the middle of nowhere encounter a deadly local threat, the sequel is more akin to the likes of Anaconda (1997), with a mature cast and the added presence of a human threat. This time instead of partying youths, the protagonists are bank robbers and hostages. During a storm the desperate criminals hijack their flight to Acapulco and it crashes as a result. Exploiting weaknesses in airport security, pre-9/11, the thieves had been able to smuggle aboard weapons with laughable ease. Stranded in a Mexican swamp, the thieves hold fellow survivors captive as they attempt to make their journey to safety with their loot. Unfortunately they have landed in the feeding ground of a ridiculously large crocodile. As they are eaten one by one, a plucky young heroine attempts to overcome the human and reptile threat to be united with her boyfriend. A parallel plot in which the boyfriend becomes aware of his girlfriend's danger and sets out to find her fills out the running time and seems copied from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998). There's nothing original in this movie and even the shocking denouement is a steal from Carrie (1976). Stage scenes evoke the kind of creature features shot in the 1950s and Martin Kove lends quality support to a cast of unknowns doing a Harrison Ford impersonation with shades of Robert Shaw. Intertextual elements such as these mean that there is never a dull moment for genre fans. While the settings for the film are the United States and Acapulco, it is quite clear from the closing credits that this film was made far beyond the fringes of Hollywood. Prolific production company Nu Image, who churned out a number of creature features in the early 00s, have made many of their films in South Africa and Bulgaria, but this was shot in India.How much you enjoy Crocodile 2 will largely depend on your expectations and mood. I loved this when I first saw it and found it very bland the next. There's a modest amount of gore to please post-pub viewers of all ages but there's little that's memorable.

Rob Green I bought this film in a boxset with 9 other movies. I expect you've all heard of the Shark Attack Trilogy... that was in there.Upon returning from the pub, me and my housemate decided to give this one a whirl.Easily the greatest B movie ever made! The pair of us watched Crodile 1 the night before, but this one just blew us away.There is quite a bit of character development, in fact, you can get so into the characters that you can almost forget there was a crocodile anyway!Not great acting by a long shot but great backgrounds and stories. Swearing was a bit o.t.t. though which starts to detract from the believability of the main characters, but some subtle humour to make up for it.The crocodile didn't disappoint either. Yes; it's a bit shoddy and you can see it's blatantly cgi. The whole point in these films is that it doesn't matter. The film is just there to be enjoyed.And trust me when I say this one was.

slayrrr666 "Crocodile II: Death Roll" isn't as bad as it's said to be.**SPOILERS**After making a daring escape from a bank robbery, Max, (Darryl Theirse) Sol, (Jon Sklaroff) Squid, (James Parks) and Pete, (Billy Rieck) hijack a plane to Mexico and forces it to crash in a Mexican swamp. After making it out of the wreck, a few survivors, Mia, (Heidi Noelle Lenhart) Max, (Darryl Theirse) Sean, (Sean Euro) and Julie, (Anna Cranage) accompany the thieves on a trek to their destination through the swamp. As they're treading through the swamp, they run into a gigantic crocodile living there. Trying to make it out alive while not incurring the robbers' wrath, a tracker, (Martin Kove) and her boyfriend, (Chuck Walczak) try to help Mia and the others escape.The Good News: This wasn't as bad as it's been made out to be. The crocodile is one of the more vicious ones out there, making it's presence one that needs to constantly be dealt with. His kills are quite impressive and run an impressive gamut. One is snagged out of a window and hauled out, another is snapped up, breaking the arm and then swallowed, and one more is chomped and savagely bitten, then is put into the infamous crocodile death roll. It's only done to one victim, but it looks great when it happens. What was also enjoyable about the crocodile was that when he was exposed as a threat, the rest of the film more or less centered around it. It was a viable threat that carried the film just as much as the robbers subplot, and it didn't just deal with the exploits of them with the crocodile only munching on the stragglers or strays until the last few are left. The second half is just about dedicated to the robbers and hostages trying to escape the crocodile, and that is most welcome. There are some good action sequences as well spread throughout, keeping it an upbeat and pretty fast moving film. The entire sequence in the shack is a great sequence, giving the action when it's needed and some nice gore as well. There is also a little bit of suspense thrown in when the unknown crocodile would pop out during the first trek through the swamp. It's a surprisingly decent film.The Bad News: There's still a few things wrong with this film. The first is that the crocodile really looks fake. It's mostly done with CGI, which is obvious when it is, but it's also done with a really bad looking puppet. Normally, I prefer puppets and animatronics over CGI, but there has to be a sense of believability to it. This one looks mostly like a giant float made up like a crocodile. This is pretty much spread out through much of the other elements present, which can make it a bit grating at times. It's really an all-around effort with this one, so it can be one that's heavily criticized in this area. These were the main things wrong with the film though.The Final Verdict: Yes, this is a cheesy film with a bunch to really get up in arms against, but it's not a bad example of the genre that is mostly just for the fans of the films. It can be a guilty pleasure for those not into it, but it's more likely for the fans of the genre.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and an attempted Rape

insomniac_rod Where to begin? I thought I was watching a B-movie Thriller after 20 minutes. The opening scene made me think I rent another movie. Then, the whole plane crash scene could've been done in 10 minutes without all the cursing and violent scenes. A Horror movie needs violence but "Horror oriented" not plain violence that isn't common in the genre. Anyways, it took several minutes for the real plot to develop. You know, the big crocodile attacking the survivors of the plane crash. Then, it takes too long before the crocodile appears on screen again and that means that there aren't many death scenes. By the time I stopped caring about the plot, the characters were getting dumber and dumber so the movie got interesting.The ending didn't surprise me or provokea reaction, it seems that it was very rushed. I just wasted 90 minutes of my life in something that I didn't pay for. I mean, this is far from being a low budget Horror flick.The best features about Crocodile 2: -Mia. Heidi is a hot woman, really hot. She has a spectacular body and you can witness at the end where she wears a sexy bikini. I wonder she hasn't starred in more B-flicks. That's it. The worst features: -The non sense dialogs. The cursing is exaggerated. The word "bitch" is probably 50% the whole dialogs in the movie. -The acting. All the actors were terrible! This is probably the worst acted movie from 2002. Special recognition for the guy who gets killed for yelling. The guy provided the worst acting I've recently seen. Memorable scenes include the fake, cheap CGI crocodile jumping about 10 meters and eat a guy who was giving the finger to him. Also, why would the tough black guy have his shirt ripped and reveal ONE nipple through all the movie? You can't get much worse that this movie. Anyways, watch this movie only if you are HUNGRY, really hungry for a B-movie in all the sense of the term. Don't pay for it, don't rent it, just wait until it shows on cable.