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Shark
Attack 3: Megalodon |
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A megalodon,
an extinct prehistoric shark, appears to be not so extinct
as it shows up near a small town and starts to munch on the bathing tourists.
The mayor refuses to close the beaches despite the fact that the bodycount
is rising rapidly. So a team of three now have to think out a way on how
to kill this prehistoric beast before it kills them.
This is one of a million Jaws rip-offs, but hey, I guess you already
knew that
so let's move on. I thought this movie was rubbish and reminded me a bit of
the TV series Pacific Blue, which I also don't like. The shark looks either
very CGI made or it looks like a rubber shark. In the few scenes it does look
like a real shark, it's only a regular white shark, which they just zoomed
in
to make it look bigger. There are many stupid, stupid things in this movie,
too
name a few: A girl screams because she gets a flashlight in her face, even
though it looks as if she's already spotted the guy with the flashlight. Then
we have the scene were a guy sits in a boat and looks at a shark tooth, now
the boat is supposed to be moving but you can tell that it isn't moving at
all.
Also, when the guy photographs the shark tooth with his digital camera to
put
it onto his computer, all the background disappears and only the tooth appears
on the computer screen, as if he didn't even hold the damn thing, no fingers,
no nothing. And get this, he took the picture from the side but on the computer
it was standing up. Oh and one more thing, why would a shark just grab a rope
lying in the water and then swim around with it for a bit? Makes no sense
at
all to me.
The acting is just as dumb as the badass plot. I can honestly say that not
one single actor in this movie was good, so I will just leave it like that
and not say more about the acting. The directing is also quite shit, I've
seen worse though, but it makes it look so SOV. The effects are just terrible,
when a guy runs a water scooter it looks just about as real as it did in movies
from the 30's-60's when people drove cars in movies. I did like the last big
shark though, the first effect when the big shark comes out of the water was
pretty powerful, but then it got overused and quickly grew pathetic.
I would suggest that you avoid this flick and see Jaws 4 or whatever again.
It's really a surprise that this movie was made at all considering that the
first Shark Attack didn't even deserve a sequel. Next time someone decides
to do a shark movie, I hope that we will see some new shark instead of a
white shark zoomed in and renamed Megalodon... Perhaps a tiger shark (and
yes
I do know that there are horrormovies with Tiger sharks already, but wouldn't
it be cool with a new one?) or maybe a whale shark that didn’t chew people,
just sucked them into its big dark mouth.
As
most shark movies this isn't particularly gory, just some blood floating
around in the water. The goriest thing we get is a bit off arm and a bit off
leg.
Just as the plot, Shark Attack rips off the Jaws soundtrack as well, and
throws
in a couple of Caribbean guitar music here and there to make it sound
"fresh".
As
you can see, I don't have a lot to write about this movie, maybe it's because
there's not a lot going on? If you're in the mood for a shark horrormovie,
rent
anything but this. Shark Attack 3... pfff, even the title is cheesy.
Review By: AnthroFred
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