I saw Lake Placid opening night at the movie theater and was very, very disappointed. I was not expecting much, I mean it was from the director of Friday the 13th Parts 2 and 3. But the select scenes I had seen on television plugs got me over it and I went. Truth be told, Lake Placid is an excellent made for television movie, that is all. You can see where the commercial breaks would fit in, and Steve Miner lived down to his expectations, delivering a soulless commerical product of a movie. Bridget Fonda sleepwalks through a role that is clearly modeled after Ally McBeal and the humor runs the same shallow level. You want a great killer reptile movie, see Alligator, its place as the greatest one ever made is assured.