Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
... View MoreI 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.
... View MoreYour blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
... View MoreThe film may be flawed, but its message is not.
... View MoreQuite possibly the most catastrophically stupid shark movie ever made. How country folk are seen by the Limo Liberal slime of Hollywood is perfectly depicted in this wretched piece of trailer trash filth. Every imaginable trailer trash-redneck cliche is stretched to the farthest gear when radiated sharks seek blood and gore on an unsuspecting population of Oxycotton drenched trailer trash. Plot? Who cares about plots at a time like this. Movies like this revel in the theme of despicable type casting, cliche strangled and mangled main characters and zero story line development. The only obvious interest lies in the never ending body count of Billy Joes and Bobby Sues getting "ate" by those damned shark critters. Oh the humanity.
... View MoreNot only the worst movie, but also a dumb stupid director has made
... View MoreDeconnard (Dennis Haskins) owns the Soggy Meadows trailer park (more like RVs). He wants all the people gone so he has the levy bombed. The area floods along with a large CG shark that has the ability to leap and grab things out of the water. The film starts off creating great trashy characters, but doesn't follow through with them. They become lame as the story goes on. All the women in this poor trailer park look like movie stars and none looks like they are on meth or even smoke cigarettes. Tara Reid of Sharknado fame is briefly in the film. BTW they are filming another Sharknado film even after almost all life on Earth was destroyed in the last one. Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity unless you consider "son of a mother's goat" a swear phrase.
... View MoreLulu Jovovich gives nothing less than the performance of a lifetime in a marvelous role that serves as the glue holding this entire film together. Under the skillful direction of Griff Furst and working from a superb script, Jovovich sets the screen on fire with passionate emotion as well as stunning beauty. Furst does a fine job of showing the environment of extreme poverty and hard deprivation that permeates the lives of his characters. The supporting cast is good in breathing life into people who could well have become stereotypes. Instead, they are flesh and blood prisoners of circumstance and shockingly under attack in a way beyond all imagination. The tension is electric and the action never stops as these heroes face threat after threat. Frightening and at times horrible, Furst and Jovovich ultimately depict the triumph of the human spirit as the basic decency and strength of common Americans overcome both human and aquatic evil. This film is the best of the killer shark movies to date and that is due to the direction of Mr. Furst and the incredibly powerful and unforgettable performance of Ms. Lulu Jovovich.
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