The first of David E. Kelley's movie flops (the other being Mystery, Alaska); this horror/comedy tells of a small Maine town having to deal with a thirty-foot crocodile who's eating residents. It's up to Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman and Oliver Platt to try and stop the nasty croc.

Get past the decent cast and Stan Winston effects and you get a bland time that has plenty of attempts at humour, all of which fall flat. Kelley is trying his best to be "hip" but is just going through the motions, he can write well (early episodes of TV's Ally McBeal is proof) but this isn't his finest moment.

Stupid and inane with the pinnacle of dumbness coming when they suspend a cow by hellicopter and dip it into the lake (to which Fonda proclaims, "It looks like a giant tea bag.").

Alligator did it better.

Directed By: Steve Miner.
Written By: David E. Kelley.

Starring: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson.