Lake Placid: Legacy

Screaming, yelling, hollering, arguing, nonstop for 90 minutes. Surprisingly good acting. A talented group of actors wasted in this drivel. They just happened (on a day trip) to all bring waterproof flashlights with powerful lights that never dim or run out of power. The usual preposterous scenes. If you like loud, irritating screaming non stop front to end, this is for you.

6yrs after the creators lied to us and gave us Lake Placid: The Final Chapter we have yet another straight to television Lake Placid movie and it's unsurprisingly terrible.

Yet again people are on the run from an oversized crocodile in a movie with a wafer thin plot and a forgettable cast.

I mean seriously why? Why does this exist? Why do they keep pounding out these dreadful movies? I mean Legacy of all words to choose! Is this the Legacy that the franchise is going to get? Awful movies that you'll see repeated weekly on the Scyfy channel?

Skin this croc once and for all and let the franchise die, it hasn't been good since *Thinks* the very first film for crying out loud!

Poor movie just like the last bunch.

The Good:

Nothing comes to mind

The Bad:

Unshockingly poor cgi

Whole thing is just so very basic

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Horror movie 101 is don't go down the stairs

Joe Pantoliano must have owed someone a favour

South Africa stands in for the USA and a cast of mainly Canadian and European actors play American characters, in some cases not very convincingly. Pointless and very poor sequel in the Lake Placid franchise this entry can only be recommended as a time filler to viewers who can tolerate bad movies. Worst thing about this is the abysmal "special" effects. Whether it is the creature, a swarm of bats or explosions the CGI suck big time. Predictable too.

The crocodile's in this film look so unreal compared to the first lake placid film, the crocodile's in this film was able to climb Ladders, walk through spaces that were small and turn around in small spaces,. The actors one minute said amphibians then in the next line said reptiles. The basic story line of the film was ok but the acting and the visual effects of the crocodile's was awful.

If you're going to have a movie about a giant croc you should probably show it once in a while. The series took a big slam from the cgi over the time but honestly I still found them all fun and felt like it stayed in tune with the original plot up until now. I do like the series and so wanted to like legacy but it failed terribly. They had solid acting but obviously no budget for the cgi so I ask why make the movie at all. When they do show the croc it's blurred and unrealistic and you wait until near the end to finally see just how bad it is. The plot started out somewhat ok but went to crap quick. Why they went where they did (into a giant bunker) was I guess a diversion cause they had no budget to show the croc. Most of the kills scenes don't even show the croc and are inside in a dark bunker. I hope this isn't the legacy for real of this series. They need to go back to the roots with the local towns people and add in a couple of big city folks with the dark comedy and it would be a pleasure if we even got back past cgi budget. I gave it a 2 for the acting and only watched to the end because I'm a devoted fan. I Know the rating will drop to around 3 as it sits at about 4.4 due to cast and friends voting. Comon bring back Betty White and keep the action outside.