Crocodile 2: Death Swamp (2002) (USA)

aka Death Roll

⭐️⭐️1/2

Following a successful (Well, for them at least. There’s a lot of dead people and police officers full of bullets.) bank robbery, a quartet of violent criminals board a plane (dressing like a band of greasers who also saw The Matrix too many times and have a couple venereal diseases amongst them) and head to Mexico. After bad weather forces them to turn around, the criminals hijack the flight and make them fly into the storm. A stray bullet leads to a system malfunction and causes them to crash in a swamp. A small group of survivors (three of the criminals, a sexy stewardess, her nervous coworker, a scumbag lawyer, the pilot, an injured woman and a brainiac college kid) make it out of the wreckage. The leader of the bank robbers forces the survivors to carry their loot and shoots the injured woman to make sure everyone knows he’s serious. The dumbass boyfriend of the stewardess (waiting for her in Mexico) hires a tracker he comes across in a bar (you better believe it’s Martin Kove) to help him look for the lady he loves. The group march through the harsh terrain and a big-ass shoddy-cgi crocodile attacks, killing the pilot. The criminals fill it with led and call it a day. Sucks for them, because that big-ass shoddy-cgi crocodile has a bigger and shoddier mama that’s none-too-happy its baby was slaughtered. It’s time for the folks to be picked off. The cgi quality is exactly what one would expect, so you’ll get no complaints from this seasoned SyFy channel veteran and every so often ya get a giant animatronic head kinda gumming on its victims and I’m all for that. Martin Kove and the dork eventually meet up with the group and after some tension, Kove convinces them he’s the only one that can get them out. A big-ass crocodile encounter helps move things along. They hold up in an old factory and Kove fills them in on the legend of the local devil dragon and the history of horror that lays claim to the area. Jon Sklaroff and his disgusting mustache steal the show as the most depraved member of the gang. It’s exactly what I thought it would be and I’m completely fine with that.