Beautiful, moving film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Blistering performances.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Arriving in Australia to shoot a documentary piece, the crew and the locals find the shoot has attracted the attention of a monstrous crocodile and must try to get away from the deadly creature before they become victims.A strangely fun entry, as there's very few solid points about this one that should make it as good as it really is. The fact that the attacks in here are among the film's best qualities is no surprise, as that's the main point in such a film, but by making them high-quality as they are it's a surprising quality, with all the dismembered limbs, superb crocodile animatronics and vicious deaths being dished out. On top of that, it's pretty creepy at points where it's still just a shadow stalking the group, and then it ramps up the action in the second half with several notable chase scenes that actually manage to get a jump every now and then from the action on-screen. That said, there's still some flaws here as the film is quite confusing with its story, since little is mentioned about the sport or what's so popular about it, or why it decides to throw in the pirates to the story when it never mentioned them beforehand and dispatches them shortly thereafter, creating a rather frantic story. Sure, the movie's cheesy beyond belief as well, but otherwise that's all that's wrong with it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, and a sex scene.

Along with Roger Ebert, I share the belief that you can enjoy movies that really aren't very good. "Blood Surf" is one such movie. It is so harmlessly incompetent and casual that you have to just take it with a grin and some mental vacuity.Editing? Hit-and-miss. Continuity? Out sick for the day. Special effects? Whatever was on hand. A typical scene will include a shot of the croc with a harpoon and line embedded in it PRIOR to the harpoon being shot.The casting is actually excellent. Everyone fits his/her part perfectly, though the acting itself leaves a bit to be desired. (I would have like to have seen the casting calls. "Very, very flat-chested young blonde needed to balance very healthy brunette. This role will serve to keep the boat from listing to one side." While everyone seems to want to pick on the croc, I actually got the biggest grin watching the fake sharks and dorsal fins around the surfers. They remind you of Photshop 1.0.Definitely worth watching late at night.

...which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement. Overall, "DinoCroc" was a much better movie. Sure, in that movie Matt Borlenghi played a complete wuss-bag who spent the entire movie crying about his little brother getting eaten by the DinoCroc. But the special effects in "DinoCroc" were better, the plot lines were better, and the acting was better. Here are the problems with "Blood Surf" -- 1) the killer crocodile looks like a kid's model with a retractable jaw. 2) the plot is ridiculous. Matt Borlenghi & Co. get shipwrecked on a deserted island, in which they encounter a rabid group of ugly Filipino natives who try to force themselves upon the women in the group. Which was a complete waste of 15 minutes of film. And 3) there's not enough croc time. There are a couple of redeeming qualities of "Blood Surf" -- the actresses are pretty attractive and Matt Borlenghi gets eaten by the croc towards the end of the movie. But if you're on your deathbed and only have enough time to watch one Matt Borlenghi/killer crocodile movie, skip this one and fire up "DinoCroc" instead.

Fans of creature feature films have to endure a lot of awful movies lately. Blood Surf shamelessly joins the list of stupid, redundant pulp-horror titles about ridiculously big animals that want to turn the food chain upside down. Crocodiles are particularly successful as we already had to struggle our way through the abysmal 'Crocodile' (directed by a disappointing Tobe Hooper) and 'Lake Placid'. Blood Surf is every bit as bad as these other films and – on top of that – it likes to exaggerate tremendously. The saltwater-crocodile supposedly is 90 years old, over 30 ft long (!) and it kills for fun! During the film, he amuses himself by devouring a bunch of utterly stupid surfer-dudes & dudettes who came to seek new thrills by surfing in a shark-congested area. The only beautiful aspect about this film is the tropical location. Even though it's a completely inappropriate setting for a film like this, the lagoons and nature looks marvelous. Every other aspect is simply disastrous. There's a quite a bit of gore but it all looks fake and laughable. The dialogues are downright painful to listen to! You won't believe some of the lines these actors have to say! I know surfers are supposed to be a mentally underdeveloped group but I hope for their own sake they're not that stupid! Early in the film, one of the characters refers to Jaws as being a 'mechanical toy' but the croc here looks at least 10 times less real than Spielberg's great white shark. The visual effects in 'Blood Surf' are amateurish and the massacres fail to impress. I won't say too much about the acting since it's secondary in flicks like this. The girls look sexy in wet shirts and their boobs joyfully bounce while running away from the beast. You guessed right: Blood Surf is a very bad film. So bad it becomes fun again. But 'funny' for a whole other reason than James Hickox intended.