Uriah43 This movie essentially begins with 3 poachers in the Australian Outback taking a small boat into a lake at night to hunt crocodiles. Although they manage to kill the first two they come across, the third crocodile is much larger than anything they have ever seen and it capsizes the boat and kills two of them. This results in a park ranger named "Steve Harris" (John Jarratt) taking two aborigines in a boat to find it. Unfortunately, tracking it down becomes much harder than he suspects and if that wasn't bad enough local politics and prejudice hamper his efforts even more. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie had a pretty good premise to operate from but I thought that the director (Arch Nicholson) got a bit carried away with the clash of cultures between the whites and the aborigines which seemed to permeate the entire course of the movie. Likewise, proscribing some kind of spiritual mystique on the large crocodile was somewhat cheesy as well. That being said, I have rated this film accordingly. Slightly below average.

videorama-759-859391 Here's a killer croc tale that goes a different direction, and takes a more realistic standpoint, than the other "croc just to shock", "unrealistic monster tales, with a fresh resolution. This straight to video movie, isn't half bad, and I must say I enjoyed it, after initially just watching it for Jarrett. Nineteen years, prefore Mick Taylor, young looker, Jarrett, plays the much nicer, masculine park ranger hero, where hottie Nikki Coghill, a journalist, adding sultry sex appeal, in the unforgiving Darwinian heat, has popped back up into his life. A croc has tragically, brutally taken the life of a child, and some others, so the locals are taking it somewhat personal, as does these posse of revenge fueled hunters. Here's Jarrett's dilemma: a band of aboriginals want the Croc caught and saved, as it carries the spirit of their past, where they want it dropped back to it's original dreaming locale, so we really have good conflict, where a really tense climax is drawn, the last fifteen minutes, almost gold. Yes, a Croc tale with a different spin, but more so here, we're in realistic waters with Jarrett. It's kind of sad, in it's snubbed cinematic injustice, as here's quite a good well put together pic. To call it a yarn, doesn't feel right. It's unfitting. It's more respective of that. There's a more realistic aura hanging about here, than probably about every other croc tale.... that's if you discount 2007's fine Croc piece, Black Water. Of course, this movie is not as good as that, but this one does pack real bite, like some of the performances, but Jarrett does play it quite down pat, where his acting's not gonna be remembered here, in his better looker days.

Scarecrow-88 There's a massive crocodile the Aboriginals call Namunwari which attacks a trio of poachers, killing two of them, with the third, John Besser (Max Phipps) demanding its demise. Croc conservationist, Steve Harris (John Jarratt, Wolf Creek), and two Aboriginals, Oondabund (Burnham, Burnham) and Oonabund's son, Adjaral (Aussie great, David Gulpilil) will attempt to tranquilize, capture, and transport the Namunwari to a place where it will not pose a threat to civilization. Meanwhile, Harris has his hands full with Besser and other hunters who want to kill the Namunwari, or any other crocodiles for that matter. As Aussie films often do, the racism towards Aboriginals is once again referenced, while the feeling of hate towards crocodiles in general is established strongly in the storyline. Harris and other "croc lovers" want to save them from extinction. With Nikki Coghill as Jarratt's spunky and spirited ex-lover, who returns to support him when the Namunwari becomes a target for the poachers. Phipps is a perfectly loathsome heavy, the real villain of the film and certainly a thorn in Harris' side. Good showcase for Aboriginal actor Burnham Burnham who speaks of the Namunwari as if it were a mythical creature and will not assist Harris if his goal is to murder the croc in cold blood, believing the animal was once man. Particularly memorable is seeing Jarratt speaking "Aboriginal" with Burnham Burnham who often communicates in "broken Aussie". Definite similarities to Jaws are unavoidable such as the hunt for the croc and the monster's approach to shallow waters where Aboriginal children are playing (the film's most shocking scene shows the Namunwari eat an Aboriginal kid with a shot from the camera afterward showing a toy boat without its owner!). I'm sure many will gripe and belly ache that the croc is fake looking, but I thought its size and girth was quite impressive.

Movie Nuttball This monster crocodile film is pretty good.If you can find it would be a good collector's video because its a hard one to obtain.If you find it get it!Its not boring,it has some good scenes and a different ending and should satisfy most horror fans!