Lake Placid

All in all, a pretty average horror flick that would be a good fit on the shelves of video stores, but would only be a poor relative in cinemas. It follows the clichéd routine of some 1950s monster horror films (smart scientist, extravagant millionaire, good-looking policeman), so there are no genre surprises. Only the scenes with the crocodile are really memorable (feeding the cow and the grizzly as a snack rulez!), and there are a couple fo nice, properly bloody deaths, the rest is plot wadding and hammy humour. But it’s alright to watch once. (03.07.2006)

A movie that should have been made fifteen years earlier. It could have been at least a solid video cult-classic like Alligator, because this way it's just cliché-laden, boring stuff designed for the bottom shelves of video stores. (16.08.2007)

Wenn dieser Film keine gute Horrorkomödie/-parodie ist, soll mich ein Krokodil, so groß wie ein Bus, fressen. Auf den ersten Blick erweckt er – so ähnlich wie z. B. Arachnophobia – den Eindruck, dass die Monsterhorrorfamilie Zuwachs bekommen hat. Es handelt sich aber vor allem um einen nicht ganz so ernst gemeinten Film mit sympathischen Figuren und einem Drehbuch voller witziger Wortgefechte… Und in diesem Fall auch mit einem absolut tollen Krokodil (Stan Winston ist/war Stan Winston), das für die spannende Stimmung sorgt. Alles in allem hat mich bei Lake Placid am meisten das Reggae-Lied am Ende gestört. (24.07.2012)

"Jezero" is a classic film that you can watch basically anytime and it usually won't ruin your mood. It's not a great fun, I mean in the sense that you probably won't laugh much, but it won't bore you to death either, if this style of films doesn't bother you. I also have to mention that it has incredibly good effects, especially considering it was made around 1999, so it's not surprising that Stan Winston was involved in the film. (31.03.2014)