I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Yes this is a b-movie, but it's a fun b-movie! Jeffrey Combs is perfectly cast as a crazy scientist who tries to save his son from terminal cancer by introducing shark DNA into the young man's body. The result, of course, is a shark-man hybrid with some very big teeth and an appetite to match. The ensuing monster madness is highly entertaining with a good combination of action and suspense in a nicely utilized island setting. The cast is excellent as well, as not only does the great Jeffrey Combs do a terrific job of chewing the scenery as the requisite mad scientist, but the wonderful Hunter Tylo steals the show as the beautiful and appealing heroine. William Forsythe does a good turn as well, and he and Tylo make for a great team as they try to lead the other people on the island to safety as the man-shark ruthlessly hunts them down. Special effects aren't top of the line, of course, as this is obviously a low-budget production, but they are adequate and the director does a good job of managing his resources so that everything looks fine. No, this is not Jaws or the Curse of Frankenstein, but as a sort of combination of both it makes a surprisingly effective sci-fi thriller.

Actually SharkMan was worse than bad, I personally found it awful. Was there a redeeming quality? Yes, and only one. Jeffrey Combs who gives his all to a character who is not only clichéd but never really believable. The rest of the cast don't put anywhere near as much effort, you actually do question what William Forsythe was doing here in the first place. But the acting is not the only bad asset. There is also the hilariously terrible special effects, very rubber-like and silly-looking. Instead of feeling any sense of danger, I was silently chuckling to myself at how ridiculous the effects looked. The camera work and editing was also too much, rapid and always moving, sometimes it is very difficult to see or work out what's going on. The gore was nothing out of the ordinary, you do get the sense that you have seen it before and in much more of an inspired way. The dialogue is cheesy, the story predictable and devoid of suspense(which would have made the gore work a little more I think) and the characters stereotypical and annoying, the Russian scientist character never rang true to me. Overall, apart from Combs SharkMan was a mess. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Hammerhead is a combination between the mad scientist and killer shark movie genres. In a bit of type-casting, Jeffrey Combs plays the aforementioned mad scientist who develops a human/hammerhead shark creature. Bizarrely, this being is in fact his son, who he has turned into this monster to prevent him dying from cancer. Or something.A group of associates are invited to the scientist's private island. They end up being used as shark bait or shark mate. For some unknown reason the head of IT has been brought along as part of this team. Who knows why? Luckily, he turns out to be a resourceful, if somewhat overweight, Ramboesque hero. I'm working on the assumption that he learnt how to handle an assault rifle as part of his day job working in 1st line support. A normal day for this IT man presumably involves fixing someone's network connection followed by a call to gun down gun-toting evil-doers. Or perhaps a call to fix someone's PC has to be scheduled between physical confrontations with land-based human-shark hybrids? Anyway, he's amazing and saves the day. He even get's the girl.The shark-man is a slightly lame creation but OK, I guess, judging by the effects in general in this film. And the movie moves on at a decent pace. It's complete hokum of course but if you buy a movie called Hammerhead and expect it to be a complex drama about the emotional conflicts experienced by a man turned into a land-based killer fish, then really you have no one to blame but yourself. As it is, there are guns, gore, girls and possibly even an exploding helicopter. It's rubbish but not as bad as some might say.

This is a sad movie about this woman who thought her ex who she loved so much was probably dead, but really his scientist dad had just put a spell on him to turn him into this really cute shark-guy. Kind of like in Beauty and the Beast. It could probably use a ballroom dance scene and maybe some singing candlesticks, but there are some pretty gross plants instead. They make this one girl really itchy, so she lets herself get eaten by the shark-guy instead of scratching through the whole movie. The scientist guy is a good dad who tries to reunite his fishy shark son with the woman he was engaged to, he even arranges for them to have private time for s-e-x, but the woman in this is a really shallow snob and thinks the shark-guy is an ugly, icky monster and wants nothing to do with him. She gave up on love! Just because he was a shark! I thought it was pretty sad how all she had to do was kiss him and he'd turn back to normal and they'd live happily ever after, but it's not that kind of movie.