Gruesome but unconcernedly lighthearted monster movie featuring a thirty-foot Asian crocodile who has somehow migrated to backwoods Maine. The dialogue, by the TV writer-producer David E. Kelley, has some snap and crackle, and Bridget Fonda is especially funny as a paleontologist who has no field experience but is not hesitant to stick up for her principles and preferences (pro-toilets, anti-ticks). In true TV fashion, the snappiness falls into a rhythmic monotony dictated more by metronome than by circumstance. With Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, and Betty White; directed by Steve Miner. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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