Director: Jim Wynorski
Year: 2015
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
Assigned to work detail, inmates of a local female correctional facility are tasked with a job in the woods, but when a friend springs the group as well as takes the crew patrolling them hostage their escape plan brings them into contact with prehistoric sharks and must find a way to escape alive.
Review:
This one wasn’t all that bad overall. One of the better features here is the strong start and overall pacing featured here as this one tends to get started really quickly. The opening minutes here manage to showcase the release of the sharks due to the fracking operation, and that gives a great attack on the workers stranded in the woods right after which gives the film a fast start. Likewise, the ensuing ambush during the initial time on the gang that leads into the kidnapping scheme that features some great scenes of the sharks operating on the outskirts of their hideout.
The action bringing that to pass in the latter half is quite fun. The initial attack showing the creatures tracking the one victim onto dry land that serves to introduce them to the group when they discover the body and get attacked by the creatures gets this going nicely. That this gives a fine start to their attempts at escaping which has some great action as they attempt to utilize the rather creative tactics to get away, and the series of underground attacks as the sharks stalk the group through the darkened caverns makes for a solid time here.
The cast here is incredibly fun and works for this kind of film. Traci Lords as the level-headed and intuitive Detective Patterson is able to work the kind of street-wise one-step-ahead-of-the-game detective which is what she should be. Dominique Swain as the treacherous Honey is a little hokey as the bad-girl leading the prison break but is certainly an imposing figure with her cunning nature. Her partner Cindy Lucas as Anita Conners is a bit one-note simply being a rude hard-edged inmate but they make a great pair. Christine Nguyen as Michelle Alika is the stereotyped good inmate that didn’t need to be there but is still worth rooting for to escape, much like the other efforts in the cast. These here are what hold this up over it’s few flaws.
There are a few minor problems. The main issue to be had here is the absolutely laughable attempt to pass off the sharks as being capable of burrowing through dry land. The tactic of doing so should work mainly in the sense of digging ruts onto land off of the adjoining waterway, yet the method here of just popping up out of nowhere in the middle of the woods is rather silly and comical. There’s nothing mentioned about how they manage to survive on dry land and the manner of how this is shown has some of the weakest CGI in the film. That is the other big flaw here, as the film’s CGI is quite ridiculous as it follows the majority of the tropes associated with these films like sie changes or physical switches. These here are the film’s biggest problems.
Overview: **.5/5
While it’s still filled with enough positive aspects to like and only a few minor issues that are usually associated with killer shark films, in the end, this is a wholly watchable if not ent entirely mandatory watch. Give this a look if you’re a fan of the creative crew, a killer shark movie aficionado or looking for another cheesy shark film, while those looking for something more intense should heed caution.
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