Lake Placid: The Final Chapter

I gave it four stars because it's stupid, mindless fun from the wonderful SyFy filmmakers that gave us the Sharknado franchise. So basically, it's two hours of a little bit of a plot, bizarre SFX, a few seconds of nudity, and a couple actors that horror and sci-fi fans will know immediately. There are also a handful of actors that you will kinda recognize but you're not sure where from so you can look up your IMDB app and say, "Oh yeahhhhhh, she was in that thing ...!"I'm clueless as to what the nasty reviewers on here were expecting ... Hamlet, maybe ... but if you're a fan of the cheese fest SyFy movies and massive alligators, it's a fun way to spend a rainy night with a bowl of popcorn. Extra salt and butter, please!

I knew the state of this film before I bought it, so I can't cry foul. It is literally more of the same for this franchise. If you like man-eating crocodiles, that pretty much sums up the content of this film. People run and scream. The cartoon (excuse me, CGI) gators hop around eating everyone in sight. The only saving grace is Yancy Butler, who had the best lines throughout. The one huge detraction, that old ham Robert Englund (fortunately, he wasn't in this movie long enough to ruin it for me).I'm almost ashamed to admit that I love crap like this. Without exception, this film is totally irrational. The best example had a bus driver navigating a road at night, without once looking at where he was going. It didn't take a lot of ingenuity to come up with the disposable plot. Mix bedlam with a high body count, add rampant stupidity, and you have the bulk of this movie.In spite of all its shortcomings (or maybe because of them), I love this movie anyway and had no problem adding it to my collection.

This is a review for the standard DVD edition of 'Lake Placid: The Final Chapter' released by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2012. This movie is a SyFy channel television movie.This is not really the final chapter. After this movie, there have been two more Lake Placid movies to date, 'Lake Placid vs. Anaconda' and 'Lake Placid: Legacy'. This is, as of the time of this review, on Thanksgiving Day, 2018.PLOT/SUMMARY: *****LOTS OF SPOILERS BELOW*****The movie starts with a flashback to Reba reviving in the supermarket. In the previous movie, Reba was supposedly killed by a crocodile. She has a return match with the crocodile in that same supermarket that takes place off camera.We are now in the present. Reba, believe it or not, is now an agent for The Environmental Protection Agency. She was given this position to stop her from killing everything in sight. Black Lake is now surrounded by a 10 ft tall electric fence. Reba, Sheriff Theresa and another EPA person, named Dennis, capture a small crocodile for safekeeping. Supposedly there are about half a dozen crocodiles of that same species left in the world and they are all in Black Lake. Everyone else in town, including the sheriff, wants the crocodiles all killed. The sheriff falls in love with Ryan Loflin. Ryan is at Black lake with the Army Corps of Engineers building the electric fence.Jim Bickerman, obviously a relative of the Bickerman's from the previous movies, is dead set on exterminating the crocodiles. He sets out to Black Lake with a group of guys. One of the army corp of engineers hears some screaming, presumably from Bickerman's group, and opens the electric gate. He is then dragged away by an unseen crocodile.Meanwhile, Sheriff Theresa's daughter has gone on a camping trip to Clear Lake with other students. Unfortunately for them, the bus driver is a pervert and is watching porn on his phone while he is driving (seriously, this is an actual plot point). He misses a clearly marked sign depicting a fork in the road that points to Clear Lake one way and Black Lake the other way. Don't worry, the chaperone, we are told, know's where they are going. Also unfortunately for the group, the electric gate to Black Lake is now open and they drive right on through to the beach. With her daughter gone, Sheriff Theresa invites Ryan over since she's now lonely. She does this despite the fact that she doesn't want to be involved with a guy who is leaving in a few weeks.The camping trip group makes it to Black lake where they unpack. We discover that Max Loflin is still alive and in the woods. Jim Bickerman's group has essentially been wiped out but Jim is still alive. Most importantly, the perverted bus driver decides to whip out his package and take a leak in the lake, literally right in front of two teen girls so they can get a good look... OK we can stop right here... this is the jump the shark moment in this movie...COMMENTS:- Lake Placid isn't so placid when they started filming this. I guess they were up against a budget because it was obviously filmed during stormy or windy weather. The lake's water is very choppy at the start.- The young girl is reading 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad. Problem is the book the girl is reading is way too thick to be 'Heart of Darkness'. They would have to print like 10 words a page for it to be that thick. The real story is a novella that is not even 100 pages long. I own it, it is barely thicker than a comic book.-I'm not sure what they were thinking by having Reba become an environmental agent. Yes, It's funny for a moment but then she can't really be in character anymore so it takes a lot of her personality out. She's still got the same fire but it's just not as funny as before.-What was up with that bus driver? I get it that they wanted a pervert along on the trip to get eaten. Was it really necessary for him to take a leak right in front of two teens? Couldn't they just have had him being a peeping tom? I'm by no means prudish but that scene just goes too far even in a movie like this. It's out of place.RECOMMENDATIONS/CONCLUSIONS: This isn't the final chapter, of course, but perhaps it should have been. The series has seriously gone into decline with each passing movie. The problem is that they are not only getting worse but are also getting to be unwatchable. This series isn't fun any more. The first movie was excellent and the second was decent enough. The third was passable because of the presence of Reba. With this movie, not even Reba can save it.I'm giving this movie just 2 stars.Recommended only for Lake Placid fans to complete the collection.Not even recommended for SyFy channel, crazy animal, enlarged reptile, killer shark, movie fans.

The actors and actresses performed exceptionally. The crocodiles' images in a number of cases seemed too fake. Need better media images as the crocs went for the kills.

Not great, but a good watch.

A splendid transfer from SONY. 1.78:1 ratio (fills my entire screen) Excellent colour, picture and sound, and Subtitles. (How is it that a film of this standard ie a "B" in all but name, gets good subtitles, and a prestige serial like The White Queen" from Anchor Bay/Starz doesn't? Subs are getting to be vital for so many viewers now, and I find Amazon is not always clear about this.) Sorry!... I seem to be watching this "series" in reverse order. The original first a few years ago (great film), then 2 weeks ago "L P VS ANACONDA" which is (I think) the "Final Chapter"> This one seems to begin with the final scene from No2 which is confusing unless you know! Elizabeth Rohm plays (rather unconvincingly I thought) the sheriff of a small town next to Lake Placid who has a "cute" teenage daughter and a sort of on'off boyfriend (Btitish Paul Nicholls). Yancy Butler, doing her butch best as a game warden (not actually sure,) Robert Englund as a grizzled old poacher, and a cast nubile ladies in bikinies ( a couple of topless scenes, but no sex as such), all perform to their best abilities. Just think - a variation of "Jaws" and you have the plot. Just substitute Crocs for sharks, which brings me finally to the CGI. I was impressed because the director/editor realising budget restrictions do not dwell on the monsters. A quick few seconds here and there, and it works all the better for it. Recomended to lovers of "schlock" and the modern "B" films. (Oh! "Jaws" it isn't, but it is fun).

This was for my wife and she love all the movies, was the only movie she was missing in her collection. The delivery was quick

This movie starts where the third Lake Placid left off with Reba coming to after being attacked in the supermarket however some time has passed as the lake now has an electrified.perimeter fence and there's a new sheriff in charge as with the first three movies it does manage to shock and chill even though when you see the turkey.and you know what's coming next it's the speed of the croc's awesome power lunge that has all the.traits of the original 1979 Alien movie brought to the audience plus the aspect Lake Placid does not pull away from the gruesome carnage showing the audience the brutal nature this planet can produce.

It really is time to put this story to bed. Way too many cliches and clearly a game to see who can be the worst actor.

We loved it, yes some of the acting is rubbish and yes some of the cgi is a bit iffy (but it's an improvement on the last one). The story isn't too bad and it's a good laugh when your bored. We own all four Lake Placid films but would happily bin 2 and 3 for being total pants but this one is good (can never top the original though)