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)

I have no doubt that this is good horror comedy/parody. Similarly to Arachnophobia, at first glance it looks like another addition to the monster-horror family, but it is mainly a sympathetically exaggerated affair with equally sympathetic characters, a script full of funny verbal shootouts... And in this case, also with one absolutely perfectly created crocodile (Stan Winston is/was Stan Winston), which creates the necessary suspenseful atmosphere. All in all, what bothered me most about Lake Placid was the reggae song at the end. (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)