Shark Week

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Made for TV Asylum production. Do I need to continue? A wealthy cartel owner (Patrick Bergin) kidnaps a half dozen or so people to play a shark survival game. About 30 minutes into the film they figure out they were all somehow involved in his son's death. The shark footage look very different from the rest of the film, i.e. Ed Wood inserting stock footage into a film. Acting was sad as well as the dialogue.

Who ever did the editing needs to never work again.... I thought something was wrong with my TV until I played it twice... @ 29:30 to 29:53...the group walking down path jumped BACK ...5 TIMES LOL

That's my entire review, although I am required to type more, or they won't post my review. After watching a series of really good movies lately (Cafe Society, Don't Breathe, Hell Or High Water, among a few others) I apparently felt compelled to torture myself, and watched this, one of the worst films I've seen this year. This is nearly unwatchable, a poor combination/ ripoff of shark attack flicks, and torture flicks. The opening title sequence is rushed through in less than 30 seconds, before we are taken on a lengthy, choppy tour of the greater LA area, as a number of people are kidnapped, and taken to some fruitcake's home. They are on a remote island, and they must fight their way through a variety of shark-related traps if they wish to live. They must also realise the chains they are bound in are obviously so loose they are almost falling off. It turns out this group is responsible for their captor's son's death, and, one by one he kills them, in retaliation. Spoiler alert, I guess. There are so many logic loopholes in the derivative screenplay, that the entire ordeal makes little sense, the effects never even rise to the levels of "so bad it's good", this film is so awful that I can barely even compose my thoughts right now.

I don't mind seeing a man torn apart by sharks, but it strains my credulity when the sharks ROAR while they do it. The 8 kidnapped victims all have their hands locked in chains, but the chains are so loosely wrapped it shouldn't take them more than two minutes to get loose. And that's the biggest problem with this movie, and why I stopped watching it after 15 minutes: whoever thought this movie was worth the cost of making it wasn't too tightly wrapped, either. This review system requires me to write at least ten lines of text; sadly, the movie isn't even worth that much of a review.

Horrible movie but still fun and cheesy. Guilty pleasure for sure. I enjoy B movies lmao.

Another entry by The Asylum so you all know what that means, trash. But I gave it a go due the director (Christopher Ray) being the son of Fred Olen Ray. Maybe that should ring a bell too, Fred's flicks aren't that great too but it has it followers. Still, you know that the Asylum do uses a lot of CGI and not the kind that will win an Oscar. The story itself doesn't make any sense and the acting is far below zero. Just look at the opening sequence. A shark in a swimming pool, really, the pool isn't that big at all but still the shark looks big. From there on it's a bit of a Saw story. try to survive a battle with all kind of sharks. All CGI and sometimes it's okay but most of it all it looks ridiculous. There's no blood to mention. Oh sure, the sharks do bite but the fight between humans and sharks isn't believable at all. A lot of clichés all over the flick, but no suspense at all or even horror. Clocking in at 90 minutes it surely felt like a week, a shark week; Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Coledy 0/5

What a shame for the actors to play a movie as bad as this. 2012? as if it was made in Charlie Chaplin era. I swear it was the worst movie I have ever seen. Worst acting worst Director worst special effects worst music . I have no idea how was this movie released . We should be able to sue them for waisting our time & money on a movie as bad as this. I would give not 1 but -10 for this movie. I don't understand how come the producers put money on films as bas as this movie. Where do they go and learn directing or producing a movie as bad as this one. I swear if I watch an arabic movie made back in the 60's it would have been much better then this. It is really the worst ever movie I have watched in my life. Even in cartoons they make better special effects then this movie.

No real acting, bad cgi, no story ... but so much fun to watch. I've never seen a guy running around with a landmine under his arm, there is a first time for everything I guess 😂😂😂

Well before you sit down to watch "Shark Week", you already know exactly what kind of movie you will be in for, and you know exactly what to (and what not to) expect from a movie such as this. And on that account "Shark Week" delivers. You know what you are getting here. And the package is complete with a ridiculous story, poor CGI, rigid acting and stereotypical character gallery. So no surprises on that account. First of all let's look at the story. A group of people have been captured by a rich mad man for some reason which actually never comes to see the light of day. And they are to compete in his demented contests that include sharks and people dying one by one, if they are to survive and make it off the Island. Wow, really? Oh my, what originality and what creativity. Oscar worthy? Hardly so... Then we have the CGI and special effects. Well, let's just say that it didn't even look like the people hired to do the effects were trying all that hard. Either that, or they didn't have enough money, training to do it better or the equipment to do it right with. I am guessing it was a lack of funding. The effects in "Shark Week" were atrocious actually, and at no point do you really buy into the effects. But of course, you already know what you went into here with a movie such as this. Don't count on seeing anyone familiar or famous in this movie. And those people who were on the cast list, weren't exactly standing in line to harvest awards for this movie, let's just leave it at that. The characters in the movie were one-dimensional and showed about as much personality as wet cardboard. So you never really rooted for anyone of the characters, nor did you care when one of them died in a most laughable way of questionable effects. I do enjoy shark movies, and creature features in general, but the shark genre tend to be ridden with movies that are of questionable value and either lacks proper effects or just use actual footage of sharks in the ocean and then reverse pan the angle to differentiate on using the same shot over and over. "Shark Week" is hardly a noteworthy addition to the shark genre. So why do we keep watching these movies? Well, on the off chance that they actually turn out to be a surprise and a hidden gem in a vast ocean of otherwise questionable movies. Or because there is just something amusing and perverse in sitting down to watch these laughable movies. Sometimes they are so bad that they actually are fun. "Shark Week" wasn't one of those times...