If you'd asked me last week if I'd watched this Film, I would have sworn that the answer was 'Yes.'
However, I couldn't find any Review I wrote for it, so let's check out...
A famous Cop- nicknamed Solo Lobo by the people- is your usual 'I don't play by the rules' kind of guy.
He's what you would get if you cast Joe Flaherty as Dirty Harry and then had a Comedian rewrite his dialog.
He gets involved when a bunch of mysterious disappearances and later deaths occur.
He's what you would get if you cast Joe Flaherty as Dirty Harry and then had a Comedian rewrite his dialog.
As luck would have it, his Wife- Dee Wallace- is a Chemist who can help him prove that it is an Alligator!
Said Alligator is a mutated one, thanks to Stock Plot Point #5- Bad Man Dumps Chemicals in Water.
The bad man is Steve Railsback, so that tracks.
Our Hero shoots it with a shotgun and drops a bunch of rubble on it, but nothing stops it!
The Mayor (and Railsback) hire some Alligator Hunters from Louisianna to take out the beast.
The group- led by Richard Lynch!- fail miserably and most of them- including Kane Hodder doing a creole accent- are killed.
Now they want to help out and get revenge!
All attempts to stop the creature from getting to the lake fail.
Railsback hold a big event in spite of the danger- Stock Jaws Plot Point #2- and a big attack (that's mostly POV) ensues.
Many fake outs occur before the creature is finally destroyed. The End.
A fun Film and surely one that will never be mistaken for fine art.
The Plot is basic, but also full of random little extras. The corrupt Mayor gets an Arc. His Daughter gets one. The Rookie Cop gets ones.
It does random things like cutting to said Cop on a date talking about how his Dad abused him...and never bringing it up again!
The creature here is...mostly not that impressive. They don't have a full-scale model to show off, so you get POV, shots of a normal Alligator on small stages, brief shots of the head doing chomping and lots of tail action towards the end.
It's probably why they spend so much time on the real villain- Railsback. Over the course of the Film, he chews the scenery, makes Machiavellian deals and leads to the deaths (sometimes directly) of many.
All in all, the Film is an enjoyable B-Movie that throws in random Character Moments for no clear reason. That and it features a whole Scene of Wrestlers, which is neat for me (a Wrestling Podcaster) ...
If you go into this with the right expectations, you'll have a good time. If you're expecting more from a Film like this...are you Martin Scorsese?!?
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