Director: Mark Polonia
Year: 2021
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
After a virus overruns humanity, a group of researchers at an undersea medical lab tries to find a cure using the sharks that initially spread the disease but when a series of calamities arise that puts everything in jeopardy they try to escape back to the surface before being killed by the sharks.
Review:
This was an enjoyable enough genre effort. Among the more likable factors features here is the strongly engaging and outright topical setup employed here. That this one goes for a unique idea that uses the rather current storyline of a virus running rampant throughout the world which is transmitted by shark bites which humanity has no cure to combat is a pretty decent touch. Focusing on scientists racing to find a cure while there are reports of the rest of the world cut off from each other and stuck in a quarantine-like state at their homes while this is going on adds quite a topical touch, especially when this spends s much time s does in their labs on the breakthrough to a cure.
That comes to a head with the shark action employed here. The cheesiness of these sequences is on full display and becomes the main selling point here as the mission to dispose of the old species and retrieve new creatures for testing shows off the inherent goofiness of the material quite nicely. The second half, featuring a lot of fun cheesy action involving the infected sharks getting loose, a viral outbreak causing a zombie-like virus to spread to the staff, and a trailer trying to escape after screwing everyone over causes some enjoyable and fun cheesy scenes here. The finale, with the escape of the crashing system and struggle to get away from the sharks chasing after them is a fun touch, especially using all the cheesy creature effects it does here to really go all-out for a somewhat cheesy time that gives this one a lot to like.
This one manages to feature some drawbacks to it. Among the major issues here is the low-budget here being way too small to handle the type of spectacle attempted here with some obvious and cheesy effects featured throughout here. Using models of the facility to simulate the structure collapsing under the events surrounding them, a puppet for the main shark when interacting with anything around it looks wholly goofy and the GI utilized throughout here is incredibly fake and obvious are just some of the factors here that give this away which is to be expected going into something like his. The other real issue here is a meandering and tacked-on ending that’s certainly here to beef up the running time for there’s nothing about how this connects to the film being told. These all bring this one down somewhat.
Overview: ***/5
A generally enjoyable cheesy killer shark film that piles on tons of highly entertaining moment which might not have a lot of universal appeal, overall this one serves this style quite admirably. Those who enjoy and appreciate those elements or are fans of the creative crew will have plenty to like here while most others, especially if turned off by the negative factors, should heed caution.
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