Bai wan ju e (2012)

Bai wan ju e (2012). 1h 30m | PG-13

“A large crocodile kept in a zoo is sold to be chopped out for meat but escapes in the nick of the time. It swallows a young womanu0026#39;s bag with her life savings in it. So the lady, as well as a disparate group of people, falls on its trail.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a relatively light-hearted crocodile-on-rampage movie as it doesnu0026#39;t feature much gore even though the croc does kill a few people. The cgi is not bad at all (much better than the recent Z-grade American croc films if you set your standards at that low level), but it still shows itself to be cgi in some scenes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe highlight of the movie is when the croc enters a house, rampaging through a stairway, breaking through the walls and even assaulting people who had taken shelter at the roof. Subsequent scenes in which a croc trainer challenges and tries to subdue the giant beast just with a large stick are also very interesting; being a croc movie fan and having watched about two dozen croc movies so far, I had never seen such a scene before in any other croc movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere is a heavy dose of intentional comedy, some of which is tolerable and some of which is pretty pathetic.”