Waste of time

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Not with me. What a bad movie! This has virtually nothing to do with sharks but more with the director's voyeuristic desires to be involved with a woman and a man at the same time in a sexual relationship. More on that in a moment. The first killing by the shark happens at the film's 20-23 minute mark. No one even knows the woman dies by the shark. The next death comes at the hour mark. There are two more deaths maybe three by the film's end. We maybe see the shark with all its unimpressive glory about five or 6 times. So what do we get in Tintorera - lots of sexual situations, lots of guys in bikini shorts sipping drinks or sitting on a couch or lounging in a hammock. We get lots of girls bare-chested. We get a bizarre(and sleazy) love triangle with Hugo Stiglitz, Andres Garcia, and Susan George. Garcia is the only one with ANY acting ability. George is pretty if nothing else(and that is all we have here with her). Stiglitz. I have seen this guy in other things and BAD is the first word that comes to my mind. He looks off into to space like he is suppose to have some life-changing angst to deal with. Instead it looks like he is having a bowel movement. He is creepy in every fiber of that word. The film ends abruptly and ridiculously. This is a clumsy attempt to make money on the Jaws craze. It is not poorly done in terms of directorial ability, etc...but in terms of what is done with the resources at hand. I didn't see the point at all. The script is the major problem here with all its inane dialog, and sleaze. Is this the worst movie I have ever seen? by no means. It is just quirky enough to hold your attention, but after awhile you will be scratching your head saying why?, why?. Fiona Lewis is the first girl that dies. She is gorgeous. In fact all the girls are gorgeous which is definitely a nod in favor of this sleazy yet primordially entertaining piece of whatever. It is not a horror film by any definition of mine. By the way, what is with the two female leads both being British? Hmmm.

First of all, I don't understand why any movie made in Mexico gets this "bad, cheesy, laughable" comments. I have watched this movie several times and it's better than the killer shark movies produced now-a-days by the Sci-Fi channel.The plot is simple yet effective, the acting is what you would expect from a 70's movie. The shark attacks (specially the one at night next to the boat with a REAL shark) are really believable, it achieves it's goal of scaring the crowd in my personal point of view.The only thing I didn't like was the excessive nudity, although it keeps it groovy to say the least. A good Saturday night pop corn flick if you have no plans to go out or if you just want to have a good time while cuddling in the couch.

"Tintorera" is a rather sleazy shark film with some big flaws.**SPOILERS**Stuck in Mexico, Esteban, (Hugo Stiglitz) is able to heal up before going back out to the beach after Miquel, (Andres Garcia) his long-time rival. After several missed opportunities, the two realize that they are each going after the same women, but soon enough they decide to meld together to be able to help themselves more. Mentioning that they are both avid fisherman, a recent spate of Tiger Shark sightings nearby prompts them out to search for it. Meeting up with Gabriella, (Susan George) an American tourist in the area, they are soon struck by more attacks by the shark. When one of them is a victim, the remaining members decide to hunt down the shark to avenge their death and help out with the area.The Good News: This one here does have some good moments. Most of this is taken up with the rather enormous helping of nudity in the film. This one has plenty of women in various states of undress, including full nudity from some as well as some really exciting sexual encounters. From threesomes to mixed versions and plenty of other forms of action. Not a whole lot is really that explicit, but the fact that it features a lot of nudity will certainly please. There's a lot of really great underwater scenes in here, as the snorkeling scenes and the hunts for the shark at least look rather interesting from time to time. Even the travelogue footage of the islands aren't that bad, and make it look like a fun destination. Of course, the real reason for the film is the shark attack scenes which, for what its worth, sit very nicely into the sex-on-the-beach backdrop and feel realistic when they're pulled off. While relying on tried and tested slight of hand style trickery, the attack scenes are not only extremely bloody but remarkably well staged, and mixed together with genuine shark footage and excellent underwater photography, they are actually quite convincing. Therefore, despite the fact that they take up just a tiny percentage of the ludicrous running length, gore-hounds may find the attack scenes worth persevering through the film for. The main one that kick-starts the film's last half is an excellent sequence, as it's a tightly handled, exciting set-piece that plays off wonderfully and contains the most shocking moment in the film, where the shark attacks two surfers in the water and bites off a leg, leading to a mad rush to shore with the still-bleeding victim leaving behind a massive amount of blood in the water. Then the shark turns back and attacks the fleeing troop, taking the victim away in an even more massive blood cloud than before. It's a brutal scene and is handled expertly, becoming the film's non-nudity highlight and a great reason to give this one a viewing.The Bad News: This one here doesn't really have a whole lot wrong. The fact that is a thinly-veiled gay love story set against the backdrop of the wild animal kingdom is the biggest flaw in the film. The fact that the real story here is the relationship between the two star-crossed perverts who find one another really comes out on the wrong end due to the fact that so much time is spent with this storyline that it really becomes more like a relationship drama than a shark film. Not that the segments are all that bad, but that so much of it happens in the film that it becomes aggravating at several points. This also has the extra flaw in exposing the fact that there isn't a whole lot of shark action in the film at all,.leaving most of it to the end of the film and making the beginning completely dull and lifeless. This really should've been trimmed up by a large margin, as there's no real reason why a film with this little shark action takes this long to get through. Several of the sexual shenanigans are a little hard to believe, such as the love triangle that happens or the fact that they actually agree to share women together is a little hard to believe. The last big flaw in the film is the fact that there's a large amount of actual animal deaths in the film. They kill about a dozen sharks in this movie on screen, in long, sustained takes which show every detail. This isn't all that fun to watch, especially the huge massacre scene where dozens upon dozens are slaughtered, and is an obstacle in itself to get over without the other features. The last flaw is that it is also hamstrung by the fact that the dialog switches constantly and rapidly from English to Spanish. These make it hard to understand and lower the film somewhat significantly.The Final Verdict: As a hedonistic travelogue of the countryside, it's not bad, but as a killer shark movie, it's too long without enough shark action. See this only for the rampant nudity or beautiful scenery on display, while killer shark fans should look elsewhere with so much time spent away from doing what it should.Rated R: Full Male and Female Nudity, continuous sex scenes, Graphic Violence and Language

Silly me! Here I was under the impression of owning a Tiger Shark horror movie, but instead there's just a copy of the X-rated Love Boat Chronicles in my DVD-collection! What the hell was this? I absolutely love low budget Jaws rip-off's – the trashier they are, the more I love them – but this has got to be one of the most incoherent and insufferably tedious exploitation movies ever made! "Tintorera" could be described as sex, tequila and sunny beaches. Oh, and a little bit of shark-action too, maybe. Now this may sound like crazy fun but NOT when you have to endure lousy acting performances and lamentable dialogs for 127 damn long minutes. Who the hell is interested in an extra long version of a crap film anyway, especially when the additional footage only serves more crap? This movie has no redeeming elements whatsoever, since even the sleazy scenes are uninspired and boring as hell. Hugo Stiglitz, who oddly resembles Daniel Stern from "Home Alone", plays a millionaire who parked his yacht in front of a tourist beach resort and stares at the girls in their colorful bikinis. He falls in love with a brunette, loses her again because their summer-love relationship is getting too serious and catches her cheating on him with playboy Miguel. The two guys become best friends and the girl gets devoured by a tiger shark without anybody realizing she's gone. Good riddance, I guess. Together, Steven and Miguel seduce a handful of other girls before the both fall for English beauty Gabriella. They then start the most implausible and retarded tree-way relationship ever filmed. Since Gabriella cannot or does not want to choose between her two lovers, "Tintorera" suddenly turns – for nearly 45 minutes! – into a romantic melodrama with few nudity (only male nudity, actually) and really pointless images of three uninteresting people talking. You honestly pray for the shark to pop up again and bring closure to this painfully soporific relationship. He/she does eventually, when the macho boys try to impress Gabrielle with their nasty shark-hunting games, and after killing Miguel this chapter ends suddenly, like it was just a tiny little sub plot. Steven returns to partying on the beach and taking random beauty-queens back to his boat for sex. When that annoying tiger shark kills yet another one of his girlfriends, Steven gets really upset goes after his nemesis. "Tintorera" stands for total boredom and irritation. The underwater footage of the titular animal scouting the bottom of the sea is nifty and professional, but I suspect most of these scenes were 'borrowed' from documentaries or something. It's rather infuriating how this movie contains truckloads of sequences in which fish and harmless smaller shark species are tortured and killed for no reason other than 'sport' and 'amusement'. I'm pretty sure it's real, as I don't see how you can fake impaling innocent little sea creatures. Perhaps it all was archive footage as well, but I don't think so judging by the diving suits the hunters wore, and even if it's all fake it still remains poor padding. I'm normally a great admirer of the gorgeous starlets Susan George, Fiona Lewis and Priscilla Barnes but honestly no one was capable of saving this disastrous production. My advise is to skip it, but if for some reason you do feel the urge of tracking it down, make sure it isn't the long version.