this film be neither good or bad enough to be great . the premise be promise ( for that sub set of people who love creaturefeatures ) a prehistoric alligator and produce jurassic park style via dna from a fossil and run around a hawaiian resort ( which may or may not be about to volcanically explode ) eat the tourist . and the great thing about alligator or crocodile film ( again and for the lover of such movie ) be that nowhere be safe the critter can be in the water . on land . hiding in bush . anywhere the cast go and the crocogator can follow . this usually make for some great reptile persecuting and chasing frighten teen scene . in other movie . personally and i would ignore all the review about bad acting and bad cgi and low budget and eastern european cast and plot hole the size of bulgaria and continuity error etc those be part and parcel of this genre and and should be celebrate rather than snottily mock by those who against all evidence and knowledge of the genre apparently expect a high quality movie . if one mock creature feature for all of the above and then they all get a negative rating which ignore the fact that some be far more enjoyable than others . unfortunately and although this movie feature all of the above and it be not one of the good one . it main problem be that the writer have apparently mistake premise for plot although it ( sort of ) make sense that the supergator be there ( because kelly mcgillis company make it from a fossil ) and and that the volcanologists be there look at the volcano and and that a variety of red t shirt and bikini clad teen be there . that not plot . it simply isn not enough to have a supergator run around eat the minor cast . there be no hooks no tragic backstory and no budding romance and no egg steal teen and no black shirt leer villain to die in the final gruesome scene ( kelly mcgillis do not even have the grace to adopt a bulgarian accent . ) and not even a clear cut hero and heroine . a a result and you simply have a few cast member potter around the island for one line reason ( let visit the waterfall . let look at the volcano . let pose in our bikini . let declare a vendetta against the supergator even though i have no state reason for so do . etc ) and get chew up and spat out . it be and quite frankly and boring . there be a few nice touch the typical homage to jaw and some cheesy one liner and a couple of spectacular death by surprise leap supergator as well a the litany of amuse continuity error and plot hole and superfluous bikini and random lesbian and stereotypical ( quint essential ) old man with a vendetta etc . but none of those thing be enough to make up for the lack of plot and character development hence we never get as far a care what happen to any of them and and the suspense be virtually nil . overall and i would watch crocodile 2 represent death roll instead .