The film gets off to a strong start. A lot happens in a very short space of time. The pace is fabulous. Then, after half an hour, it starts to run out of steam. It even becomes extremely slow and long. And some of the annoying characters start to become unbearable.
Lake Placid – Legacy/Héritage must have promised itself something it didn’t deliver! Yes, in general, there’s always a first film that’s fabulous. Then there’s a sequel, then two and it gets more and more ridiculous, like Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015) or Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012), both with Robert Englund and Yancy Butler, by the way! Often, they’re B-movies or Z-movies, and end up not even appealing to fans of nanars…
And that’s when there’s always someone, or even a whole team, who decides to start afresh and go back in time to try and make a tribute to the first one, the one that started it all and without which there wouldn’t have been all the others. This was the case for Leprechaun, Predator, Universal Soldier and so on. Unfortunately, it wasn’t always a success!
As a result of experiments, crocodiles have become immense, after undergoing mutations and transformations. The cries of these animals are always the same, whether in cartoons like ‘Masters of the Universe’ from the 80s or in films! You know, those dinosaur howls, like in Jurassic Park or Jurassic World, which are created from a mixture of at least three wild beasts, including the tiger.
Still, there are scenes I loved, like when you see the crocodile’s eye through the porthole and it looks like a dragon, or when it swims and opens its mouth underwater then gets electrocuted… but these little scenes are too little to make this a memorable feature.
In fact, the beginning is a good film, but everything else is a rather pitiful B-movie, and despite the actors doing their best, the trainwreck is inevitable. But it’s still better than Crocodile Swarm (2023), which lasts just 1 hour 16 minutes but makes the minutes seem like hours, and which sinks completely into pointless Z-series. Rising to the rank of B-movie is better, but it sure doesn’t do cinema any favours either!
In the end, all I wanted from these films was for them to end!
I don’t think I’ll be taking any notes on this film. I have no desire to follow the career of either the actors or the director.
Quite disappointed, then! I was really expecting something good this time. For once, I’m going to say that the first one is the best, as with Alien, Saw, Scream, Human Centipede, Cold Prey, Jaws… and the list goes on!
The ending is normal, I’d say! Nothing special, nothing very original, just the same old recipes that we’ve started to see coming over the years. What would have been really frightening would have been the fact that this film was so successful.
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