History Film / Croc

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler: the crocodile is killed without a single fatality to the hunting party, although there are a couple of close calls]].

* CoolShades: Hawkins tends to wear sunglasses.

Local zoo owner Jack [=McQuade=] (already facing attempts to run him out of business by his influential rivals the Konsong brothers) finds his animals being accused for the deaths, as circumstances end up forcing him and his friends and family to ally with mysterious hunter Hawkins (''Creator/MichaelMadsen'') who has been tracking the crocodile, to kill it.

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Evelyn is seen sternly taking note of some violations while inspecting Jack's farm, and shrugs of his claims of sabotage by the Konsong's. During her briefing, however, she does not recommend shutting the farm down, stating that the violations were minor, easily fixed ones. This causes the Konsong's to get her fired.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Hawkins is after the crocodile not for money or a love of killing, but because it has killed dozens of people, whose pictures he has on the wall of his boat, and he wants to stop the suffering it causes, while displaying deep empathy for its victims.

* HandicappedBadass: Hawkins is a capable hunter, whose abilities are emphasized by his noticeable limp. [[spoiler: This is actually unrelated to his hunting, and came from a forklift accident in the air force]].
* IntimidatingRevenueService: They keep showing up when Konsong's keep reporting Jack for unpaid taxes and then make it harder for him to pay said taxes.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Andy Konsong throws up after [[spoiler: finding his brothers body, right before being killed himself]].

* AdultFear: Two parents see one of their children snatched by the croc and dragged off to his death.

* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Hawkins is after the crocodile not for money or a love of killing, but because it has killed dozens of people, whose pictures he has on the wall of his boat, and he wants to stop the suffering it causes, while display gin deep empathy for its victims.

* LifeOrLimbDecision: Shows up the climax when [[spoiler: Jack]] has his leg stuck in the mouth of the crocodile right as it's killed, and is trapped underwater, being faced with the choice between drowning or an amputation [[spoiler: before the others knock open the crocs' mouth with a boom stick]].

* DeathOfAChild: A young boy is among the crocodile's victims. There is a HopeSpot when Jack and Evelyn don wetsuits and go into the water to try to save the boy, whose alive but in the creatures mouth, but they fail.

* HomegrownHero: The movie is set in Thailand but focuses primarily on an American expat and his family, although the Thai characters have a decent amount to do as well.

* MeetCute: Jack's nephew Theo meets his girlfriend Chompoo this way, eyeing each other across the room with Theo then login over to flirt (with some lies mixed in) which quickly lose their steam when some tax people show up to question Jack.
* StarCrossedLovers: Briefly Theo and Chompoo when her sister is a victim of the croc and everyone thinks that it came form Jack's farm, causing her family to get mad at him.

A rogue saltwater crocodile has journeyed to Thailand and started killing people. Local zoo owner Jack [=McQuade=] (already facing attempts to run him out of business by his influential rivals the Konsong brothers) finds his animals being accused for the deaths, as circumstances end up forcing him and his friends and family to ally with mysterious hunter Hawkins (''Creator/MichaelMadsen'') who has been tracking the crocodile, to kill it.

A rogue saltwater crocodile has journeyed to Thailand and started killing people. Local zoo owner Jack McQuade (already facing attempts to run him out of business by his influential rivals the Konsong brothers) finds his animals being accused for the deaths, as circumstances end up forcing him and his friends and family to ally with mysterious hunter Hawkins (''Creator/MichaelMadsen'') who has been tracking the crocodile, to kill it.

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* HandicappedBadass: Hawkins is a capable hunter, whose abilities are emphasized by his noticeable limp. [[spoiler: This is actually unrelated to his hunting, and came from a forklift accident in the air force]].

* KidDetective: Theo tires to get proof of the Konsong's corruption in one scene.
* MeetCute: Jack's nephew Theo meets his girlfriend Chompoo this way.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler: the crocodile is killed without a single fatality to the hunting party, although there are a couple of close calls.