Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Year: 2015
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
Attempting to travel to Florida to visit his family, Finn and April become stranded in the middle of the biggest sharknado yet dropping sharks down on the East Coast and must battle their way through the creatures to save their friends.
Review:
While not quite up to the craziness of the second one, this is still another stand-out effort here. Again, this is due to the running theme of finding just impossibly cheesy scenarios of dumping sharks falling from the sky and killing people, which here never gets old and still retains a spectacle-laced charm that makes this one so endearing. That charm also comes in the form of so many outstanding action scenes along the way here, from the opening assault on the White House dinner where the random guests are all attacked and the rather cheesy fun of taking a chainsaw to the flying shark or blasting them out of the air with a hail of gunfire blowing them away gives this a spectacular start followed by the save later on as they land on the escape route to get away.
As well, the big fun here is the theme park action where the falling sharks land in the water ride, take out the stalled roller coaster sliding up and down on the tracks into the giant loop, crash the set of the disaster ride in front of the panicked guests who assume it's all part of the attraction and the swarm of sharks falling onto the tourists and wiping them out in graphic attacks leaves for quite an extended, highly cheesy sequence that's all the more fun with how it finally gets resolved and offers up some truly suspenseful moments as well. The later attack on the Army base is quite fun with the raining sharks taking out the base with plenty of graphic blood-splatter, offer up the truly highlight moment kill in the film which is unbelievably spectacular and carries on the resolution offered from the first one that pays off nicely here as well with the action in the skies using the fighter jet to take the creatures out.
There's also the fun finale with the space-shuttle being threatened and offering a form of high-impact action scenario to finally end matters while keeping the action furious with the raining sharks coming down on the troops, the multitude of gunfights to keep them at bay and the magnificent finale that truly offers forth floating sharks in space as they attack and get inside the ship which makes for more chilling moments and plenty of fantastic cheese including the final means of getting back to Earth. Again, coupled with some great kills and a few hilarious lines, this one offers up a lot to like although there's a few problems here.
A lot of this is on the special effects, as the sharks here are quite fake-looking with barely any moment of credibility in their appearance as they're obviously so CGI rendered that it's impossible to believe they were ever in the same shot with anyone to begin with and becomes somewhat distracting at times. Also, it does run into sequel-itis at times by re-using many of the scenarios and set-ups as previous entries did even though there's never a truly logical reason to do so other than to homage the past and keep the series running, which isn't nearly as distracting as the sharks but is still noticeable. These here do harm it slightly but not enough to lower the positive points.
Overview: **** 1/2/5
Filled with some really enjoyable elements at times as well as a few flaws, this is a highly entertaining addition to an already fun series. Give it a shot if you've made it this far into the series or are an incredibly huge fan of these utterly cheesy creature features, while those who have no tolerance for that kind of film should avoid this one.
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