RoboCroc
RoboCroc
| 14 September 2013 (USA)
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When a top-secret unmanned spacecraft disintegrates on re-entry, its mysterious military payload crash-lands in the crocodile habitat of a place called Adventure Land, a combination water park, amusement land, and world-famous crocodile exhibit. Following its pre-programmed instructions, the payload—a next-generation nanotech-based combat drone—finds a host in the form of the park’s prize twenty-foot Australian Saltwater crocodile, Stella. She is the largest saltwater croc in captivity. Immediately upon infecting its host, the drone payload’s nanobots begin to transform Stella from an organic living creature into a lethal killing machine with only a single directive: survival!

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WakenPayne

I enjoy watching these movies even though you can say the same thing about every single one of them over and over, they were made to be this cheesy and that is all determined about how much fun you had while watching it and this one certainly had it's moments but on the whole I didn't really find that much to be entertained by.Enter lead 1 and lead 2, One man and one woman - work at a zoo when a spaceship experiment malfunctions and the nanobots inside it inhabit the body of a crocodile and begin to make it mechanical. The zoo-workers are perplexed when the military appears and the crocodile starts to swim around because it's connected to both a lake and a water park. The rest is literally almost every single cliché imaginable.I mean it when I say that not even to a point of it being laughed off, I mean tell me if any of these shock you or if you've seen them before... The 2 leads fall in love despite the fact that they just met, There's this obvious bad guy in the military that wants their science experiment alive, The monster doesn't die the first time, the male lead must go and rescue his son from said monster, his son also has a romance with someone he barely knows and this time she has the acting range of my computer speakers and the last cliché - a character we barely know sacrifices himself to stop the monster in the last 5 minutes. I mean in Sharktopus and Sharknado it had just as many clichés - if not more but with them I found an extreme self awareness to it - like they know full well what they're making will be laughed at just by the title but I didn't really finding myself laughing at it.So for a movie about a metallic crocodile breaking loose and causing havoc - I'm underwhelmed

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wnourallah

What a lousy movie. Wooden acting stupid story and soooooo cheesy it is worse than camembert. Please Do not waste your money guys. I kept nodding off but I paid for it and just had to see the end. The only 2 nice things in this movie are 1) The girls and 2) Keith Duffy gets eaten. He should stick to singing and leave the acting to the professionals. I was in a generous mood and gave this film a 2 because of the amazing looking young chicks in this film. Unfortunately that only lasted all of 5 minutes. They should re-name this film and call it crocofshit. Anybody is entitled to their own opinions of course but to say that this movie was acceptable, what kind of movies have they been watching all their lives? To me this will I am sure be the worst movie of the 21st century.

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TheLittleSongbird

Robocroc is one of those movies where you shouldn't expect too much from and had potential to be enjoyably daft. It has a great title, the scenery is quite nice(although the zoo doesn't really look much like one) and there are three quite good performances from Corin Nemec, Dee Wallace and Steven Hartley. Nemec has a lot of fun with his role and avoids becoming too much of a Steve Irwin clone, Wallace has a character that's ruthlessly evil and she relishes it and Hartley is wonderfully grizzled. Elsewhere in Robocroc, the movie, even when judging it for what it is, came across as rather messy from a personal perspective. The production values are a little drab- though there are much cheaper low-budget movies elsewhere- and the crocodile, who doesn't have much personality, looks more silly than menacing. The writing came across as cheesy and daft and not in a good way, I found myself either cringing in its banality, laughing out loud at how stupid some of it is and rolling your eyes at the cheesy tone it adopts. Some may find it enjoyably daft and light-hearted- and they're entitled to- and others won't, that's what opinions are for. The characters are not much more than underdeveloped clichés and despite the efforts of a few members of the cast are not easy at all to root for. And excepting Nemec, Wallace and Hartley the acting is not good at all, often of the dull-as-dishwater type and there is not much awareness of the situation or proper emotion. The story is the biggest problem, as said already it did judging from the title have potential to be daft in an enjoyable way. For this viewer though it was too dull to even be that. There is a severe lack of suspense. The premise is not much different from other "monster" SyFy movies and Robocroc doesn't do anything new with the formula at all, in fact it's all very predictable and at times confusingly structured as well. The pacing lacks momentum and the exposition scenes suffer from that and that they's rather talky and at times not always on-point. And sadly, the killings and the scenes with the crocodile, who isn't even introduced until half an hour in, are little better. The killings are not in the least bit suspenseful or fun- not helped by that they're not really shown- and the silliness becomes too much to really digest, very Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus-like. To conclude, Robocroc has a great title but apart from that, the scenery and three good performances it's pretty messy. SyFy have done far worse but that's not much consolation. 4/10 Bethany Cox

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Clay Loomis

OK, so, we know that the writers of SyFy movies have a thing for tornadoes, sharks, crocodilians, cyborgs, and all manner of mythical monsters. They mix and match at will, things that go together, and those that don't. And they like those things to be big. They've given us things like Alien Tornado, Metal Tornado, Ice Twisters, Dinocroc, Supergator, Supergator vs Dinocroc, Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus, Megaconda, Crocogator, Mega Python vs Gatoroid, Ragin Cajun Redneck Gators, Dinoshark, Ghost Shark, Sharktopus, Sharknado, and the list goes on (I made up one of those movie names. Can you tell which one?).I try to rate SyFy movies fairly, only comparing them to other SyFy offerings, because, to be honest, they stand alone. I mean, you just have to sit back and laugh when a movie called Chupacabra vs The Alamo is shown. In that regard, I think Robocroc was above average. You've got your nanite-infested zoo crocodile that turns into metal and jumps through the air and chomps its way through a helicopter. What's not to like? You even get "robocroc view", seeing things through the robocroc's eyes, a la The Terminator ("Food Detected").My only problem at this point is that the writers of these things seem to be stuck in a loop they can't escape. They keep going over the same, well trodden ground. These movies are missing something basic; creativity. Where are the cool things we haven't seen before? Where are the space aliens? Ah well, with these budgets, I guess you can't be too fussy.So let us guess what will be next- I'm thinking Robocroc vs Sharkinator.

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