RoboCroc (2013)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I enjoy watching these movies even though you can say the same thing about every single one of them over and over, they were made to be this cheesy and that is all determined about how much fun you had while watching it and this one certainly had it's moments but on the whole I didn't really find that much to be entertained by.Enter lead 1 and lead 2, One man and one woman - work at a zoo when a spaceship experiment malfunctions and the nanobots inside it inhabit the body of a crocodile and begin to make it mechanical. The zoo-workers are perplexed when the military appears and the crocodile starts to swim around because it's connected to both a lake and a water park. The rest is literally almost every single cliché imaginable.I mean it when I say that not even to a point of it being laughed off, I mean tell me if any of these shock you or if you've seen them before... The 2 leads fall in love despite the fact that they just met, There's this obvious bad guy in the military that wants their science experiment alive, The monster doesn't die the first time, the male lead must go and rescue his son from said monster, his son also has a romance with someone he barely knows and this time she has the acting range of my computer speakers and the last cliché - a character we barely know sacrifices himself to stop the monster in the last 5 minutes. I mean in Sharktopus and Sharknado it had just as many clichés - if not more but with them I found an extreme self awareness to it - like they know full well what they're making will be laughed at just by the title but I didn't really finding myself laughing at it.So for a movie about a metallic crocodile breaking loose and causing havoc - I'm underwhelmed

A mysterious military payload is compromised, when a top secret unmanned spacecraft lands in a combination water park and zoo. Next generation drone nano bots, pre-programmed to kill, find a home in a prized twenty-something foot Australian saltwater crocodile named Stella. The normally mild mannered croc immediately changes personality and becomes combative. Rapid transformation from zoo showpiece to a metallic, lethal killing machine with two things on its mind...filling her belly and surviving. A military-type investigative, recovery team wants Stella and will butt heads with zoo personnel not ready to give her up. Some scenes may be a bit disturbing; after all a CGI crocodile can prove menacing. This SyFy feature stars Keith Duffy, Lisa McAlister, Steven Hartley, Corin Nemec and Dee Wallace. You may find Wallace meaner than ramped up Stella.

In this standard sub-par "Syfy" TV Movie, a water park called "Adventure Cove" is terrorized after debris from outer space causes a crocodile named "Stella" to turn robotic and attack people. Resident zoo-keeper Corin Nemec (as Jim Duffy), the man who brought "Stella" to the park, takes the heroic leading role. Newly hired marine biologist Lisa McAllister (as Jane Spencer) arrives, coincidently, to assist. Also appearing are sneaky scientist Dee Wallace (as Riley) and US military man Steven Hartley (as Montgomery). Already making the scene is Mr. Nemec's son Jackson Bews (as Rob). He may stand a chance with attractive Florence Brudenell-Bruce (as Sydney), who arouses with a bikini and other skimpy clothing. More fully dressed, Ms. Wallace is also fun to watch.**** Robo Croc (9/14/013) Arthur Sinclair ~ Corin Nemec, Lisa McAllister, Jackson Bews, Dee Wallace

Robocroc is one of those movies where you shouldn't expect too much from and had potential to be enjoyably daft. It has a great title, the scenery is quite nice(although the zoo doesn't really look much like one) and there are three quite good performances from Corin Nemec, Dee Wallace and Steven Hartley. Nemec has a lot of fun with his role and avoids becoming too much of a Steve Irwin clone, Wallace has a character that's ruthlessly evil and she relishes it and Hartley is wonderfully grizzled. Elsewhere in Robocroc, the movie, even when judging it for what it is, came across as rather messy from a personal perspective. The production values are a little drab- though there are much cheaper low-budget movies elsewhere- and the crocodile, who doesn't have much personality, looks more silly than menacing. The writing came across as cheesy and daft and not in a good way, I found myself either cringing in its banality, laughing out loud at how stupid some of it is and rolling your eyes at the cheesy tone it adopts. Some may find it enjoyably daft and light-hearted- and they're entitled to- and others won't, that's what opinions are for. The characters are not much more than underdeveloped clichés and despite the efforts of a few members of the cast are not easy at all to root for. And excepting Nemec, Wallace and Hartley the acting is not good at all, often of the dull-as-dishwater type and there is not much awareness of the situation or proper emotion. The story is the biggest problem, as said already it did judging from the title have potential to be daft in an enjoyable way. For this viewer though it was too dull to even be that. There is a severe lack of suspense. The premise is not much different from other "monster" SyFy movies and Robocroc doesn't do anything new with the formula at all, in fact it's all very predictable and at times confusingly structured as well. The pacing lacks momentum and the exposition scenes suffer from that and that they's rather talky and at times not always on-point. And sadly, the killings and the scenes with the crocodile, who isn't even introduced until half an hour in, are little better. The killings are not in the least bit suspenseful or fun- not helped by that they're not really shown- and the silliness becomes too much to really digest, very Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus-like. To conclude, Robocroc has a great title but apart from that, the scenery and three good performances it's pretty messy. SyFy have done far worse but that's not much consolation. 4/10 Bethany Cox