Geologists encounter a giant alligator while investigating an active volcano in Hawaii.
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Thanks for the memories!
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
After taking some DNA from a fossil of a Phobosuchus and combining it with DNA from a modern alligator the newly recreated "supergator" manages to escape and sets up its home on one of the Hawaiian Islands. A hunter is hired to capture or kill it but in the meantime innocent civilians just happen to be in the same area and they become its next meal in the process. So much for the format which is pretty standard stuff for this particular sub-genre. Also quite standard were the performances of the main actors as well. Fortunately, there were a number of attractive young ladies featured with Mary Alexander Stiefvater (as "Alexandra Stevens") and Holly Weber (as "Lorissa") being the most prominent. However, what was rather substandard about this movie was the animation and special effects which weren't nearly as good as they should have been. That detail—more than anything else—really hampered the overall quality of the film. In any case, those who really enjoy this particular sort of picture might be interested in watching this film but everyone else should probably just avoid it as it certainly isn't one of the better movies of this type. Other than the young ladies mentioned earlier there really isn't much to see. Accordingly, I rate it as below average.
Every once in a while the SyFy channel offers up an interesting action horror flick; this is not one. Scott Kinney plays a geologist along with a gaggle of vulcanologists studying an Hawaiian volcano that may be nearing eruption. Molten lava would be a horrific way to die; but that could be made even worse. A 30-foot-long supergator has escaped a secret bio-engineering research center; it was born of fossilized prehistoric DNA. The spikey-backed komodo dragon-like creator decides to head down river to a high dollar tourist trap/resort for lunch. This supergator manages to quickly travel distances to sustain his insatiable lust for crunchy blood. CGI and acting is about as ridiculous as the story. In the cast: Bianca Lawson, Josh Kelly, Holly Weber, Meg Cionni and an almost unrecognizable Kelly McGillis.
Girls in tiny bikinis and tight tank tops and cutoffs are what keeps SUPERGATOR halfway interesting. The gator, a mutant created from the DNA of a prehistoric creature, isn't half bad looking, either. The problem is, you have a bunch of actors (some of them clearly extras) running around, trying to escape a CGI creation that clearly is not there. Closeups of its (fiber glass) jaws chomping on cast members, with a lot of fake-looking blood flowing, doesn't really help. Anyhow, an aging Brad Johnson, who has appeared in far worse than this, plays a geologist checking out a volcano with the help of several folks, including a former student who is not much on acting but easy on the eyes. She spends a lot of time huddled in Johnson's massive arms. Meanwhile, a woman scientist and a great white hunter are out searching for the gator, which has escaped her lab. The two groups collide, and the gator has plenty to chow down on before heading for town. In the sames stretch of woods are two bikini-clad babes being photographed for a magazine, three young males who are busy getting blitzed and a pair of barely-clad female hikers who are frequently filmed from behind. I kept expecting one or more of the gals to take her top off or have sex or something, but nothing like this happens. On the other hand, the two bikini-clad babes do a lot of jumping up and down and running. At one point, one of them hides from the gator under a fallen tree and poses as if she were still being shot for a magazine cover. Believe me, I am not complaining. The film falls apart once the gator hits town, arriving right in the middle of a celebration that Johnson has tried to convince town officials to call off (sound familiar?) The body count is awesome but not very well done. See it for the babes and the nasty-looking gator.
Sci-fi keeps getting worse with these so-called original movies. PU did this one ever stinks. They must use the worse CGI, as their monsters are looking worse movie after movie. They take gator and mix his DNA with a Dinosaur. Did they mix in a mass murder as well? The so-called Supergator is not eating the people in the movie. He just killing them and moving right on to next victim. Don't insult our intelligence in these movies. Gators are not on the move right after a meal and since gators are from the dingo age. I'd say whatever dinosaur they mixed in would be relaxed right after killing and eating as well. Not Supergator. He kills one victim and two seconds later he's on top of another and another. The plot was terrible using an active volcano and people checking that out and getting killed along the way. The volcano blows at the end. Made no sense and if you missed this piece of crap. I recommend missing it the next time.