Good start, but then it gets ruined

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

In the town of Alpine Lake, locate on Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in a movie called Shark Lake, filmed in Mississippi, Clint Gray (Dolph Lundgren) deals in illegal and exotic animals. During a police chase, a bull shark gets loose in the lake, unknown to everyone for five years, the same amount time Clint was in jail. Clint's young daughter Carly (Lily Brooks O'Briant) is adopted by arresting Officer Hernandez (Sara Malakul Lane). When shark attacks in the lake start to happen, everyone wants to get into the act.Sharks once again attack undetected in clear water one foot deep. The chracter Garreth Ross (Miles Doleac) playing a BBC star should have been extended. He had saved the film from dying and needed and expanded role. The character of Clint Gray was not well developed and his relationship with his crime boss was superficial. Much of the shark fighting was done at night and the shark fin looked extremely fake. Rubber shark close-ups with stock footage, but not as bad as an Ed Wood film.Guild: No swearing, sex, or nudity. Felt like a made for TV film.

Low budget shark films generally do not get a good reputation and one can see why. There are a few guilty pleasure ones, like the first two 'Sharknado' films while not considering them great by any stretch. Most are just painfully amateurish with very little to them to set them apart or make them different, other than the odd silly idea not well executed. The good news is for 'Shark Lake' is that there are far worse shark films out there (those from SyFy and The Asylum are notorious in this regard) and at least there are redeeming values, even if not many. Something that cannot be said for too many other low-budget shark films, of the shark films seen recently 'Shark Lake' is actually one of the least bad. The not so good news is that 'Shark Lake' is still not a good film at all, with a lot wrong with it and the wrong elements are done poorly.That 'Shark Lake' stars, or more like features, Dolph Lundgren is one of three reasons why people are likely to see it for, the others being if they are trying to see as many shark-attack films as possible (my main reason actually) or intrigued by the interesting idea the film had going for it. Lundgren is the best thing about it, his character and presence do feel shoe-horned in and seemed to be mainly there for obligatory star power, but Lundgren does try hard and gives actually a pretty reasonable performance considering what he has to work with.Did think that the scenery was fairly atmospheric, though wasted by how terrible the rest of the production values are and that the location didn't feel enough of its own character. The music is ok, not exactly memorable but gets the job done and there are far more ill-fitting scores in low-budget films.However, everything else is bad. The shark effects look terrible, even for low budget, and there is not much menace, suspense or fun in the mostly under-utilised and under-characterised shark action. No menace or personality here from the threat, not even unintentional humour or weird goofiness.'Shark Lake's' horror element is not scary or suspenseful enough and then there is a romance thrown in that is too bland to feeling anything for and too strange to take seriously. Pretty good idea but executed in a not too good way.Rest of the acting is dreadful, especially from Sara Lane, and the characters are not worth investing in or interesting. The script is a shambles, how the actors said all that awkward and toe-curlingly cringe-worthy dialogue without falling about laughing in front of the camera is worth anyone's guess. The story has nothing to it and doesn't do enough or execute well its main selling point. The direction is flat. Overall, there's worse but there's not much to this. 3/10 Bethany Cox

When some sharks are released into a the lake at the quiet town of Lake Tahoe, it's up to an overzealous cop who ignores the law, her love interest and a criminal to stop those sharks before the body counts rises further. Shark Lake is the kind of straight to DVD Dolph Lundgren film that i feared that it was going to suck but thankfully it did not and i'll tell you why. First of all it's fun seeing Lundgren kicking a big shark away or punching him in the face so he can let him go and 2nd of all it's a shark movie where people die and 3rd of all it has a big plot device about a woman that adopted this little and adorable blonde girl and her father that is a criminal and tries to do things right and i gotta say that whole plot with the Family and the Custody of the child i gotta say it was quite good and the acting wasn't as bad as some people said it was sure it wasn't Oscar Worthy but it wasn't awful either Sara Malakul Lane and Lily Brooks O'Briant have a nice chemistry together and that shows quite well threw out the whole film and Dolph Lundgren is pretty good too. Now where the movie kinda "fall down on it's knees" is where you get the glimpse on the Shark which is an awful looking computer effect plus there's some of those dumb moments that every single of this films seem to have in common which is some chick with big boobs that kisses a guy inside the water and he ends up dying or just some chick loosing her leg from one of the sharks and i could honestly see those stuff coming from a mile away but even with those problems aside i still enjoyed the movie: is it Jaws kind of level good? Hell no but it's no Jaws 3-D or Jaws: The Revenge and you can see Dolph Lundgren kicking a Shark away for about 2 minutes so your welcome. (9/10)

My quick rating - 3,5/10. Really bad. I do appreciate the CGI swimmers against a underwater backdrop that has to be public domain video at this point. The movie is laughable to that level and the only shimmering glimpse of hope is the story? Did I really just say that? If you take away the stupid supposed horror element of normal sized bull sharks hanging out in a lake you actually have a somewhat interesting idea. The romance involves the dealer that sells exotic animals and something he lets lose in the water happens to have babies and is a shark. OK, dumb there, but when it is revealed for other purpose just seemed like the story warped two together since he did so to get back with his ex. OK, sounds dumb, but I saw a glimmer of hope, didn't say it was great. Either way, avoid this movie but maybe Jerry Duggan has something up his sleeve(if he hangs onto his screenplay writer) for something better.