It's diminishing returns here as Nu Image cranks out a sequel to their actually not bad 2000 original and comes off with something that feels like a low-grade TV movie.

After a rubbery tentacle attack opening this has New York being terrorized by a giant octopus and it's up to scuba cop (stop laughing now) Michael Reilly Burke to try and stop it despite being called a liar (that the attacks are by the sea creature) at first by his superiors.

While this has somewhat decent production values and is fairly competently made (if by-the-book) but suffers from really poor effects (actors are constantly seen wrapping tentacles around themselves), the cheesy fact our "hero" is in fact a scuba diving policeman, a really crappy dream sequence set at the Statue Of Liberty (that gives you the biggest unintentional belly-laugh in the entire film) and a particularly lousy finale that is lame enough to put some crippled children in peril.

Sigh.

Directed By: Yossi Wein.
Written By: Michael Weiss.

Starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Meredith Morton, Frederic Lane, John Thaddeus.