....or at least that's what it should've been. Model Holly Weber plays the chick in the pink bikini who spends the first hour running from the gator until she gets killed off. Being one of the few characters that knew what was going on (and being the eye candy that probably was what grabbed the attention of male viewers on a boring Saturday night in the first place), killing her off halfway through was an instant buzzkill. What the movie was actually about though was a group of volcanologists getting in the way of the gator's rampage through Hawaii along with a scientist and a hunter who are in pursuit of it.
The acting is bad, effects are cheap (the gator and it's attacks are made with bad cgi and countless cutaways), and the plot is thin and uninteresting. But hey, it's a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie so it's not unusual. If they had scrapped the volcanologists in favor of the gator rampaging through co-eds, models, and other dumb characters like in the first half this could've been a decently fun "turn off your brain" creature feature you might sit through on a boring rainy Saturday night (or whatever night Sci-Fi premieres these types of movies). But instead we get something that only piques slight interest for about 15 minutes and then it's snooze control from then on out.
1/10 straight to the bin trash with Holly Weber's screentime giving it another star.
The acting is bad, effects are cheap (the gator and it's attacks are made with bad cgi and countless cutaways), and the plot is thin and uninteresting. But hey, it's a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie so it's not unusual. If they had scrapped the volcanologists in favor of the gator rampaging through co-eds, models, and other dumb characters like in the first half this could've been a decently fun "turn off your brain" creature feature you might sit through on a boring rainy Saturday night (or whatever night Sci-Fi premieres these types of movies). But instead we get something that only piques slight interest for about 15 minutes and then it's snooze control from then on out.
1/10 straight to the bin trash with Holly Weber's screentime giving it another star.