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Lake Placid

1999

Steve Miner

Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson ...

3.6

5,866

Horror. Action. Thriller. Comedy Its placid waters complement the pristine Maine wilderness it borders. This tranquil setting is probably the last place you’d expect a gruesome fatality. But then it’s also the last place you’d expect to find a 30-foot, narrow-snouted, multi-toothed, reptilian of the species Crocodylus. An eating machine more commonly known as a crocodile. The thick-skinned interloper and its appetite for humans brings together a group of people perhaps ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"You can enjoy 'Placid' as a straightforward camping-holiday nightmare, or as a sly, ironic take on the same. It works deliciously as both (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Whether the movie was intended at any point to be a serious monster thriller, I cannot say. In its present form it's an uneasy compromise between a gore fest and a comedy--sort of a failed 'Anaconda' (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An entertaining comedy thriller"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"It's laughably stupid, only fitfully scary and relatively harmless summer fun – if you're 12 years old"	NEG
United Kingdom	Joanna Berry Radio Times	"If you fancy something that isn't remotely brain-straining, this perfect popcorn entertainment could be for you (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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