How would I describe this movie? GARBAGE. This movie is garbage. First of all, they tease us on the box art, and on the poster, implying that this film is going to take place in a lush outdoor environment with emerald green water and lush forestry. NOPE! You get teased by that for about 5 minutes in the movie when they're driving towards their destination...where the killer croc lives....but then the rest of it takes place in nondescript underground tunnels, storage rooms, corridors lined with pipes and blinking lights. There's also not much action...which is a major bummer. For a 90 minute film, if you were to cut up all the scenes that have action and stitch them together, you probably wouldn't get 30 minutes. Most of the film features long boring scenes of the main characters arguing with each other about which way they should go or acting frantic at the slightest distant sound which we're to assume is a killer croc stalking them from afar. Let's talk about the characters: The rebellious angry bearded hipster activist guy who smokes pot, the dorky computer hacker kid, the hot babe, her timid awkward sister who tags along, the athletic token black guy who's always ready to beat someone up. Do these sound like dumb stereotypes to you? That's because they are, and they're ridiculously under-developed, have really poor dialogue, and are so unlikable that by midway through the film you'll be rooting for the killer croc to eat them all and be done with it. Why are they even friends? Now about that croc. I guess the tight budget dictates what kind of movie you can make but if you're going to make a film about a killer crocodile, atleast know what a crocodile looks like, how it moves/swims/eats, and if you can't get a real one, please, please, please make your CGI crocodile look real. I can't stress how bad the CGI croc in Lake Placid: Legacy looks. To say that it looks like a really cheap cartoon is an understatement. It doesn't fit into the scenes properly because they didn't take into account the lighting, or shadows, or placement and in many scenes, it really does look like it was superimposed over a live action scene (I know that's what it actually is but it's not supposed to look like that!!). Any suspense or excitement quickly dissipates when this thing walks into a scene because it looks so ridiculous. Look out guys! The cartoon crocodile is coming! Run for your life, angry hipster dude! Finally, let's talk about the ending without spoiling it: Never mind there is no ending. No, seriously.
