Masterful Movie

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

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.

I wasn't expecting much from Supergator, and at the end of the day it was neither better or worse than I was expecting, not quite good enough to be one of SyFy's more tolerable efforts and not quite bad enough to be among their worst. I did like the Jaws homages and a couple of the gruesome deaths were reasonably fun. However, Supergator does suffer from a number of assets that make even the worst of SyFy's output intolerably bad. It is cheap visually, with choppy editing and laughably fake effects. The script, especially the one-liners, is incredibly cheesy, sometimes amusingly but often after like the tenth cheesy line I got irritated, the story is so thin you wonder whether there is one at all and is predictable, ridiculous and has holes so big and so vast it was like trying to drive a truck along a road full of them and the characters are stereotypical of the usual SyFy creature movie clichés and superfluously developed. I've seen worse acting before, but it is still really atrocious, with everybody looking uncharismatic and stiff throughout. All in all, not the worst SyFy movie I've seen but still cheap and idiotic. 3/10 Bethany Cox

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.

Going into this film I really wasn't expecting much. The scene with the photographer and the two lumps of stupid posing for him only served to support my expectations.The concept was completely retarded, which in and of itself isn't enough to kill the movie. Most Sci-Fi Channel movies are ridiculous but incredibly fun. This isn't that fun. The acting is terrible, with the actors either being too intense or seeming like they just don't give a crap. The special effects aren't much better. The up close attack scenes are laughable. You can see it's clearly a rubber head. And the recycled Jurassic Park raptor screeches are more than a little distracting.I was most disappointed in Bianca Lawson, who did a wonderful job as Kendra during her short run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It saddened me to see her in a movie like this.In all, not the WORST movie to come out of Sci-Fi Channel, but in no way a great movie by any stretch of the imagination.