Robocroc

This movie looks like a video game from 2002. The CGI is so laughably bad that I would almost recommend watching just 5 minutes of it if you want to see just how bad CGI can get. What was the budget for this thing? 200 bucks? It looks like something a college student would make for an 101 intro to filmmaking course. It doesn't help that the plot, characters, acting, directing all suck as well.

While the title of the movie is just dripping with everything campy, cheesy and low budget, then "Robocroc" actually turned out to be entertaining enough to watch. How so? Well, in a campy, cheesy, low budget kind of way.

The story is about a military rocket crashing during an accident and experimental nanotech robots escape and take up residency in a huge crocodile, turning the ferocious predator into a massive steel predator instead. This robotic predator is killing and spreading terror in a local wild- and amusement park.

The storyline was as predictable as it comes, and it was also as cheesy as it comes. I mean, nanotech robots turning a crocodile into a robotic version of itself? Sure, why not...

As far as the acting goes, well with a movie of this particular type and caliber, you know exactly what you are going to get and what kind of talents will be in the movie. And they were right on the dime.

Effects-wise, well then "Robocroc" was actually adequate enough. Sure, there were moments where you have to struggle not to smirk or laugh at the horribly animated CGI crocodile, but once it turned full robotic, it actually looked quite nice.

"Robocroc" is the type of movie that you watch when you have nothing else to watch, or when you need some kind of pointless entertaining on the screen while nurturing a bad hangover.

The acting is atrocious, the script is ludicrous, but the effects are magical (only joking). For lovers of B or C horror movies, this is a must watch. Somehow they even managed to get Dee Wallace in the film. So amazingly bad, it's almost good.

ROBOCROC is a typical Z-grade monster flick about a rampaging killer crocodile, with the twist that this time it's a mechanical monster. This doesn't really add much to the monster rampage plot, which plays out as a cheesy rip-off of PIRANHA 3D for the most part, other than having a few scenes on computer screens with the usual boffins and technicians. The film is saddled with wooden performances from the likes of Keith Duffy and the usual nonsense level CGI effects used to animate the crocodile; even worse, it steps back from delivering the kind of bloodshed and mayhem demanded by the horror lover. Stick with PIRANHA...

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