Robocroc (2013 TV Movie) User Reviews

Crocodile Rock

[wes-connors · 4/10 · 16 November 2013]

In this standard sub-par "Syfy" TV Movie, a water park called "Adventure Cove" is terrorized after debris from outer space causes a crocodile named "Stella" to turn robotic and attack people. Resident zoo-keeper Corin Nemec (as Jim Duffy), the man who brought "Stella" to the park, takes the heroic leading role. Newly hired marine biologist Lisa McAllister (as Jane Spencer) arrives, coincidently, to assist. Also appearing are sneaky scientist Dee Wallace (as Riley) and US military man Steven Hartley (as Montgomery). Already making the scene is Mr. Nemec's son Jackson Bews (as Rob). He may stand a chance with attractive Florence Brudenell-Bruce (as Sydney), who arouses with a bikini and other skimpy clothing. More fully dressed, Ms. Wallace is also fun to watch.

**** Robo Croc (9/14/013) Arthur Sinclair ~ Corin Nemec, Lisa McAllister, Jackson Bews, Dee Wallace

Robocroc is everything you expect it to be...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 12 April 2014]

While the title of the movie is just dripping with everything campy, cheesy and low budget, then "Robocroc" actually turned out to be entertaining enough to watch. How so? Well, in a campy, cheesy, low budget kind of way.

The story is about a military rocket crashing during an accident and experimental nanotech robots escape and take up residency in a huge crocodile, turning the ferocious predator into a massive steel predator instead. This robotic predator is killing and spreading terror in a local wild- and amusement park.

The storyline was as predictable as it comes, and it was also as cheesy as it comes. I mean, nanotech robots turning a crocodile into a robotic version of itself? Sure, why not...

As far as the acting goes, well with a movie of this particular type and caliber, you know exactly what you are going to get and what kind of talents will be in the movie. And they were right on the dime.

Effects-wise, well then "Robocroc" was actually adequate enough. Sure, there were moments where you have to struggle not to smirk or laugh at the horribly animated CGI crocodile, but once it turned full robotic, it actually looked quite nice.

"Robocroc" is the type of movie that you watch when you have nothing else to watch, or when you need some kind of pointless entertaining on the screen while nurturing a bad hangover.

Great title, messy movie

[TheLittleSongbird · 4/10 · 19 October 2013]

Robocroc is one of those movies where you shouldn't expect too much from and had potential to be enjoyably daft. It has a great title, the scenery is quite nice(although the zoo doesn't really look much like one) and there are three quite good performances from Corin Nemec, Dee Wallace and Steven Hartley. Nemec has a lot of fun with his role and avoids becoming too much of a Steve Irwin clone, Wallace has a character that's ruthlessly evil and she relishes it and Hartley is wonderfully grizzled. Elsewhere in Robocroc, the movie, even when judging it for what it is, came across as rather messy from a personal perspective. The production values are a little drab- though there are much cheaper low-budget movies elsewhere- and the crocodile, who doesn't have much personality, looks more silly than menacing. The writing came across as cheesy and daft and not in a good way, I found myself either cringing in its banality, laughing out loud at how stupid some of it is and rolling your eyes at the cheesy tone it adopts. Some may find it enjoyably daft and light-hearted- and they're entitled to- and others won't, that's what opinions are for. The characters are not much more than underdeveloped clichés and despite the efforts of a few members of the cast are not easy at all to root for. And excepting Nemec, Wallace and Hartley the acting is not good at all, often of the dull-as-dishwater type and there is not much awareness of the situation or proper emotion. The story is the biggest problem, as said already it did judging from the title have potential to be daft in an enjoyable way. For this viewer though it was too dull to even be that. There is a severe lack of suspense. The premise is not much different from other "monster" SyFy movies and Robocroc doesn't do anything new with the formula at all, in fact it's all very predictable and at times confusingly structured as well. The pacing lacks momentum and the exposition scenes suffer from that and that they's rather talky and at times not always on-point. And sadly, the killings and the scenes with the crocodile, who isn't even introduced until half an hour in, are little better. The killings are not in the least bit suspenseful or fun- not helped by that they're not really shown- and the silliness becomes too much to really digest, very Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus-like. To conclude, Robocroc has a great title but apart from that, the scenery and three good performances it's pretty messy. SyFy have done far worse but that's not much consolation. 4/10 Bethany Cox

This came out in 2013??!

[matthewreinink · 2/10 · 18 July 2022]

This movie looks like a video game from 2002. The CGI is so laughably bad that I would almost recommend watching just 5 minutes of it if you want to see just how bad CGI can get. What was the budget for this thing? 200 bucks? It looks like something a college student would make for an 101 intro to filmmaking course. It doesn't help that the plot, characters, acting, directing all suck as well.

WANT TO SEE MY SCAR

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 30 May 2019]

The military loses a bunch of nano-bots in a zoo where they immediately fly into a crocodile and turn it into a mechanical killer, with an appetite for jailbait in bikinis. Duffy (Corin Nemec- saved the planet also in Dracano) is the knowledgeable zoo keeper and croc wrestler. He is joined by a biologist (Lisa McAllister who played "passenger" in "Dark Knight) who just hired on. In spite of that fact she has nice eyes and he is capable of developing deep feelings for her in about 45 minutes after they show each other their scars. The film is saved by the evil one, Dee Wallace. Dee as you recalled personally rescued 1 star films like "Bonnie & Clyde: Justified," "Hansel & Gretel" "Lords of Salem" and "Exit Humanity." I look forward to seeing her star as Sharon Sommers in the much awaited release of "Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard."

I think you get the picture. Not much to see here except the same old stuff. $9.96 Walmart. They rolled the credits real fast at the end, apparently no one wanted to be be known they were connected to the film. The small print on the back is a bit blurry too.

Parental Guide: No F-bombs, sex, or nudity. A film you let the kids watch before you go to the zoo.

croc of sh..

[wnourallah · 2/10 · 28 March 2014]

What a lousy movie. Wooden acting stupid story and soooooo cheesy it is worse than camembert. Please Do not waste your money guys. I kept nodding off but I paid for it and just had to see the end. The only 2 nice things in this movie are 1) The girls and 2) Keith Duffy gets eaten. He should stick to singing and leave the acting to the professionals. I was in a generous mood and gave this film a 2 because of the amazing looking young chicks in this film. Unfortunately that only lasted all of 5 minutes. They should re-name this film and call it crocofshit. Anybody is entitled to their own opinions of course but to say that this movie was acceptable, what kind of movies have they been watching all their lives? To me this will I am sure be the worst movie of the 21st century.

Yuckie

[SanteeFats · 3/10 · 28 December 2014]

If not for Corin Nemec playing his character a bit tongue in cheek and all the young bikini clad women this movie would have been a waste of time in my opinion. A rocket with nanobots crashes in to a zoo and the bots get released through a rupture in the container. They infect a salt water croc in the zoo and then begins a killing rampage to get the raw materials they need to turn the croc into an armored vehicle. An ugly, shop worn Dee Wallace turns up as the Fed lead when they track the crash. She is the originator of the bots and works against any containment or kill by using her personal computer. She places no value on human lives and many are lost including many GI's. All wants is field test on her invention. Her character represents all that is wrong with obsessed, prove it at any cost scientists. Thank God there seem to be only a few arouind in real life. Anyway the colonel in charge of the military finally has enough and tries to kill it. The electrify the water and stun/kill it but ugly old Dee restores it through her computer. The croc/bots escape the zoo area and goes into a city so the colonel calls on a Puff. The croc goes underground into the sewers. Jane, zoo biologist, discovers Wallace contacting the creature. Wallace throat chops her and goes into a building, leaving Jane gasping on the ground. Wallace goes in to the sewers to look for her pet creation. Jane has recovered and follows Wallace in the sewers. The colonel has been hit by the croc and as it returns to finish him he uses grenades on the croc, Jane pushes Wallace in front of the injured machine, Corin tosses the explosive charge in to the things craw and Wallace grabs it as the thing draws it back in to a tunnel. Bang the bitch and the croc die, I guess. I mean who knows with the way they do sequels nowadays. Lord I hope they don't with this one.

Wonderful Cheese

[Sergiodave · 4/10 · 15 September 2021]

The acting is atrocious, the script is ludicrous, but the effects are magical (only joking). For lovers of B or C horror movies, this is a must watch. Somehow they even managed to get Dee Wallace in the film. So amazingly bad, it's almost good.

Zoo crocodile becomes lethal killing machine.

[michaelRokeefe · 3/10 · 19 March 2014]

A mysterious military payload is compromised, when a top secret unmanned spacecraft lands in a combination water park and zoo. Next generation drone nano bots, pre-programmed to kill, find a home in a prized twenty-something foot Australian saltwater crocodile named Stella. The normally mild mannered croc immediately changes personality and becomes combative. Rapid transformation from zoo showpiece to a metallic, lethal killing machine with two things on its mind...filling her belly and surviving. A military-type investigative, recovery team wants Stella and will butt heads with zoo personnel not ready to give her up. Some scenes may be a bit disturbing; after all a CGI crocodile can prove menacing. This SyFy feature stars Keith Duffy, Lisa McAlister, Steven Hartley, Corin Nemec and Dee Wallace. You may find Wallace meaner than ramped up Stella.

Unleashed

[kosmasp · 2/10 · 18 April 2021]

I really do like Dee Wallace - and while she has quite a big role in this (not as big as the croc obviously, no pun intended), she can't really help elevate the movie either. This is low budget so I can see that some are able to cut this more slack than others. I also am happy for the at least one person who really enjoyed watching this. The majority of the viewers will feel differently.

You don't have to just suspend your disbelief - you have to shoot it into outer space. Kidding aside, the movie has dialog that is cringe worthy, CGI that obviously is not good at all and a predictibility rate that is beyond anything one can measure ... maybe take a look at the trailer and decide if you want to embark onto this "adventure"

Unbelievably fun and enjoyable Sci-Fi Channel creature feature

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 9/10 · 23 September 2013]

Trying to control a top-secret experiment, a military scientist reluctantly teams up with a zoo-keeper when it appears the experiment mutates one of the resident crocodiles into a cybernetic fusion and must try to stop it before it's rampage grows out of control.

This here turns out to be quite an entertaining and enjoyably cheesy offering. While the general plot device of allowing a normal crocodile to be infected and infused with cybernetic robotics to turn it into a killing machine is flat-out ludicrous, the manner in which it goes about dealing with this is quite nice with the overall deception played throughout the film against the zoo personnel, and in return, the viewer so we don't know any more than what's told. This makes for a potentially-frustrating time since there's little nuggets placed that aren't quite as forthcoming in revealing what's going on as it should be, and the final twist that enables the whole conflict to continue on is quite irritating for it's decision to incorporate such a clichéd option to keep this one going after the appropriate finale that was given here. That said, there's plenty to love in the film's outright cheesiness, which is just pure fun with the film getting a lot of play out of the initial concept of a robotic crocodile going on a rampage with the as-per-usual lame CGI keeping the sections of robotics coming through the normal crocodilian skin looking rather cheesy, there's some nice action scenes of both the crocodile in the adjacent water-park chomping on tourists to the military's battles with the creature in the open and utterly failing. It's actually quite fun and enjoyable for what it is.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language.

SyFy Writers Stuck In A Loop

[Calaboss · 6/10 · 18 September 2013]

OK, so, we know that the writers of SyFy movies have a thing for tornadoes, sharks, crocodilians, cyborgs, and all manner of mythical monsters. They mix and match at will, things that go together, and those that don't. And they like those things to be big. They've given us things like Alien Tornado, Metal Tornado, Ice Twisters, Dinocroc, Supergator, Supergator vs Dinocroc, Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus, Megaconda, Crocogator, Mega Python vs Gatoroid, Ragin Cajun Redneck Gators, Dinoshark, Ghost Shark, Sharktopus, Sharknado, and the list goes on (I made up one of those movie names. Can you tell which one?).

I try to rate SyFy movies fairly, only comparing them to other SyFy offerings, because, to be honest, they stand alone. I mean, you just have to sit back and laugh when a movie called Chupacabra vs The Alamo is shown. In that regard, I think Robocroc was above average. You've got your nanite-infested zoo crocodile that turns into metal and jumps through the air and chomps its way through a helicopter. What's not to like? You even get "robocroc view", seeing things through the robocroc's eyes, a la The Terminator ("Food Detected").

My only problem at this point is that the writers of these things seem to be stuck in a loop they can't escape. They keep going over the same, well trodden ground. These movies are missing something basic; creativity. Where are the cool things we haven't seen before? Where are the space aliens? Ah well, with these budgets, I guess you can't be too fussy.

So let us guess what will be next- I'm thinking Robocroc vs Sharkinator.

Fun creature feature

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 14 April 2021]

A rocket carrying nanobots crash lands in a zoo. The nanobots find their way into a huge crocodile that subsequently goes on a rampage.

Director Arthur Sinclair keeps the enjoyably asinine story zipping along at a snappy pace, treats the silly premise with admirable seriousness, stages the croc attack scenes with aplomb, and delivers a satisfying smattering of bloody violence. The solid acting from the capable cast helps a lot: Corin Nemec as likeable zookeeper Duffy, Lisa McAllister as spunky biologist Jane, Keith Duffy as jovial gator hunter Nigel Evans, Steven Hartley as the tough Colonel Montgomery, Dee Wallace as the hard-nosed Riley, and Atanas Srebev as sensible park owner Marshall. The dodgy CGI effects possess a certain endearingly cruddy charm. As a tasty plus, we also get lots of hot babes in skimpy bikinis. A neat little B-flick.