Crocodile 2: Death Swamp

Starring:Heidi Lenhart, Chuck Walczak, Jon Sklaroff, Darryl Theirse, David Valcin, James Parks, Martin Kove, Steve Moreno, Billy Rieck, Anna Cranage, Dan Martin (II), Sean Euro, Suzanne Thirumur, Teea Laitinen, Lalith Sharma, Vinay Shanker Ponde, Eddy Chamichian, Rachel Henry, Alison Learned Wolf, Amera Pasha
Director: Gary Jones
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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Flight attendant Mia Bozeman is working a flight to Mexico where her boyfriend Zack awaits. But joyful anxiety is soon replaced by heart stopping terror when the plane hits a storm and is then hijacked.
Forced to fly through the storm, the plane crashes in the middle of a Mexican swamp. While the survivors march through the swamp against their will, they soon find that the criminals leading are the least of their worries, a 30 foot crocodile had acquired a taste for human blood and is hot on their trail. Meanwhile, Zack and the roguish Roland team up to track down Mia and the survivors in a race against time and nature.

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Crocodile 2: Death Swamp
Average customer rating:

Not quite as good as its predescessor

ANACONDA meets THE REF

great movie

Fly Air Acapulco...crocodile free since 2001.

SEQUELS FALL SHORT.

Crocodile 2: Death Swamp
Starring: Heidi Lenhart , Chuck Walczak , Jon Sklaroff , Darryl Theirse , and David Valcin
Director: Gary Jones
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000694ZJ
Release Date: 2002-08-13

Product Description

Flight attendant Mia Bozeman is working a flight to Mexico where her boyfriend Zack awaits. But joyful anxiety is soon replaced by heart stopping terror when the plane hits a storm and is then hijacked.
Forced to fly through the storm, the plane crashes in the middle of a Mexican swamp. While the survivors march through the swamp against their will, they soon find that the criminals leading are the least of their worries, a 30 foot crocodile had acquired a taste for human blood and is hot on their trail. Meanwhile, Zack and the roguish Roland team up to track down Mia and the survivors in a race against time and nature.

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Not quite as good as its predescessor.......2006-08-03

I've seen too many movies to be able to show the range of quality difference with only five ratings, so in short - I consider this to be a "low four star rating", while I consider the previous "Crocodile" to be a "high four-star rating".

In other words, while I give both of them four stars, this isn't exactly up to the standards of the first.

The first 'Crocodile' was kind of a slasher with a crocodile instead of a serial killer. This was more of a generic 'animal attack movie'. This is good for an animal attack movie, but, the most well-known animal attack movie is probably 'jaws', and since watching 'Jaws' is a bigger waste of time that consuming monkey droppings, I guess I can't expect the standards of the 'competition' for this movie to be too high.

ANACONDA meets THE REF.......2006-06-23

Ok, now this was stupid. Several foul-mouthed thieves toting guns that never need reloading cause a plane to crash into a Mexican swamp with several hostages. Next thing you know, there's a huge crocodile chasing them around trying toeat them beacause they killed its baby.

Does the "croc's-killing-spree-brought-on-by-harm-to-it's-children" part sound familier? It should. It's the same reason the crocodile started killing people in the first film.

Bad effects, so-so acting, and an over-use of profanity bring an entertaining monster movie worthy of at least three stars down to a 2/5.

And the DVD transition is bloody awful. Plus, all we get for special features is trailers for this film, OCTOPUS 2: RIVER OF FEAR, which was also pretty bad, and Tobe Hopper's CROCODILE.

great movie.......2006-02-23

great movie, loved the way the Crocodile was created. I also enjoyed the special effects in this movies as well as the ending. The ending to this movie was a classin science fiction ending.

Fly Air Acapulco...crocodile free since 2001........2006-02-19

I wasn't overly concerned about watching Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2001) without having seen the original film titled Crocodile (2000), directed by Tobe Hooper, as if my experience with shoddy movies has taught me anything, it's that sequels to shoddy movies are often so only in terms of the title, and rarely have much, if anything, to do with the previous film...co-written by Jace Anderson and Adam Gierasch, both of whom were involved in the original film, and directed by Gary Jones, who worked on such television series as "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Xena: Warrior Princess", Crocodile 2 features Heidi Lenhart ("Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills", Red Meat), Paul Walker look-a-like Chuck Walczak (Flush), and Martin Kove (The Last House on the Left, Death Race 2000), probably best known for his role in the The Karate Kid films as the psychotic Cobra Kai Sensei John Kreese. Also appearing is Jon Sklaroff (Three Kings), Darryl Theirse (The Jerky Boys), David Valcin ("Two of a Kind"), James Parks (Kill Bill: Vol. 1), Steve Moreno (Followers), and Dan Martin (Sleepwalkers, Bloodfist IV: Die Trying), as Jerry, the pilot.

The movie begins with a bank robbery perpetrated by a group of foul mouthed masked men, who don't seem that particularly bright since they seem to be calling each other by their real names. Some dough is stolen, and the men make a bloody escape. Next we see Mia (Lenhart), a pretty, skinny brunette with a butch haircut standing in front of an airport in California, dressed as a flight attendant, opening a present from her boyfriend Zach (Walczak), who's waiting for her in Mexico. The present is an engraved cigarette lighter, which seems odd as it doesn't appear that she smokes, but I'm sure it will play a pivotal role later on in the story. Turns out the flight she's working, which is headed to Mexico, is also the one the robbers we saw at the beginning are traveling on, disguised as musicians, the loot they've stolen hidden in musical instrument cases. Once in Mexican airspace, the flight encounters some bad weather, is forced to turn around, but the robbers, pulling out concealed weapons (?!), hi-jack the plane, accidentally damage the controls, causing it to crash in a Mexican swamp known as `El Pantano del Diablo', which I think means `the devil's pants' (my Spanish isn't that great). Anyway, after the crash, the coach section's a complete wash (figures), but those in the first class section including Mia, another attendant, a brainy kid named Brian (Moreno), a stupido lawyer named Justin (Valcin), and three of the four robbers all miraculously survive. The bank robbers, who are on some sort of schedule, use the survivors as pack mules to carry the money laden instrument cases, after shooting up a large crocodile that just ate the captain. Turns out the dead croc had family, in that of a much larger croc that took the death personally, and is now stalking the pinheaded bunch now wading through the swamps in search of civilization. Meanwhile, back in the real world, Zack, learning of the plane crash, hires a local tracker with an alcohol problem (he can't get enough) named Roland (Kove) to help find Mia, which they do, along with the gun wielding men and the large, vindictive croc. Will any of them make it out alive? Who knows? Who cares?

I think this film, which was shot in India, set a record in terms of the usage of a profanity that rhymes with truck (begins with the letter "F"), or some variation (the combination of said word with the word `mother' preceding it was used quite often). I counted about 892 instances, but I might be off by a couple, as by the end my brain was in profane mode overload. In the future, perhaps someone could supply the writers an expletive thesaurus, as usage of the same two profanities in a movie, particularly this one, is tiresome, idiotic, and just plain lazy. Mix it up a little...there are plenty of juicy words out there, why limit yourself so? I learned quite a few things during the course of this film like...

1. Security at the Orange County/John Wayne Airport is ridiculously lax, enough so to sneak guns onto a plane.
2. Mexican swamps are oozing with methane gas (and giant crocs)
3. Mexican swamps are conspicuously free of any other usual animal or insect wildlife one would normally expect to see in swamps (except for giant crocs).
4. The airlines (at least Air Acapulco) take their time initiating search and rescue operations when one of their aircraft goes down.
5. Planes used by Air Acapulco are relatively free of any of the normal electronics one would expect to see in a cockpit, you know, the stuff that helps fly the plane.
6. Some guns, particularly those used by the characters in this film, never need reloading, no matter how many consecutive rounds are fired.
7. Never taunt a crocodile from a high vantage point as it will leap from the water and eat you up good.
8. Mexican swamp water isn't like normal water in that if you find yourself submerged in it, only after a few minutes removed you're completely dry.
9. Heidi Lenhart looks awesome in a bikini.

As far as the performers, Heidi Lenhart and Martin Kove seem to be doing the best they can with the rotten material, while the others, including Chuck Walczak, Jon Sklaroff, and Darryl Theirse (the last two playing the main bad guys high on their own machismo) all seem perfectly suited for this dredge, given their apparent lack of acting abilities (Walczak is particularly awful, and that's no mean feat in this film). There's a decent amount of gore, as the mainly CGI croc rips its way through the cast, but the story and the characters are so mired in stupidity it's often difficult to stand more than ten minutes at a time of this feature without rolling your eyes into the back of your head. The level of idiocy does maintain a certain level throughout, but then goes way over the top during the final sequences at the end in a lame attempt to provide a spectacular finale. The directing is so-so, as Jones keeps things moving at a good pace, which is perhaps a credit to the man given the unoriginal material he had to work with here. The crocodile effects (including both CGI and animatronics), supervised by someone named Mehboob `Boom-Boom' Endai, actually looked half decent (for a film that looks like a straight to video release), and they was certainly more interesting to watch than the often annoying, barely there characters, many of whom seem present if only to serve as Hors d' Oeuvres for the toothy menace stalking them. All in all this feature is pretty rotten, with few redeeming aspects that is unless you enjoy gun-toting, idiotic characters spewing forth profanities and being harassed by an angry, vindictive somewhat phony looking reptile for an hour and twenty minutes...capped off with Heidi Lenhart in a bikini (that's about the extend of the skin here).

The picture quality, presented in widescreen (1.78:1) anamorphic, does look good on this DVD, and the 5.1 Dolby Digital audio comes through clean, for the most part (there were one or two scenes where it seemed to drop out momentarily). The only extras, besides English and Spanish subtitles, are a few trailers including one for this film, along with those for Octopus 2 (2001), and Crocodile (2000).

Cookieman108

SEQUELS FALL SHORT........2005-09-04

I ENJOYED THIS ONE, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THE ORIGINAL. I GUESS MOST SEQUELS JUST DON'T QUITE MAKE IT. AT ANY RATE, I INTEND TO ADD IT TO MY COLLECTION, EVENTUALLY, AND ENJOY SEEING IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

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