Instead, this film merely aspires to be a Jaws rip-off. Kelly determines that the tooth belonged to a large, almost pre-historic, reptile. He joins the team to find what does turn out to be a 30-foot Asian crocodile, that has somehow made its way to the back woods of Maine. Nobody seems to like each other in the beginning. Everyone makes sarcastic remarks towards the sheriff.
Hector is an abrasive, pompous jerk.
Kelly is a fragile New Yorker that hates the locals. Jack is pretty much completely uninteresting, but does manage to jab the sheriff a few times. Jack is pretty much scenery. Camaraderie somehow develops beetween these characters by the end, as it had to, I suppose. Using effects that Spielberg certainly wishes he had in 1975, a very convincing monster is created that can jump out of the water and take down a brown bear as if it were a rag doll.