Director: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2010
Country: France/Japan/USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
When an earthquake releases a horde of prehistoric, man-eating fish in a small Arizona lake, the sheriff's department tries to keep them from attacking the gathered masses at the area celebrating spring break on the water including her son and his friends partying on the open lake.
Review:
This was an absolutely phenomenal film and was just a full-on blast. What really makes this such a fun experience is that there's just so much fun stuff here that this one is absolutely loaded with positives, and the feeling that it wants to wallow in such material rather than shy away from them is the best sign of all to display here. This one features the kind of material here where it's just so much fun and enjoyable that to contain all these elements with plenty of nudity here from so many worthwhile and appreciated sources not just from the main girls but also all of the debauchery and partying which go hand-in-hand together here and allows this one enough to like here already without getting to the film's other big fun the action and suspense featured.
This here is where the film really scores here in that regard as the scenes are enjoyable, from the opening ambush of the lone fisherman on the lake being overwhelmed by the suddenly-released fish, the big ambush in the underground caves against the divers underwater which goes for the absolutely suspenseful with their descent into the cave as well as the search of their breeding grounds before going for the action of their attacks and the big fun of the finale where the race to get out of the sinking boat full of snapping, aggressive fish in one of the film's most suspenseful moments.
Still, beyond all this fine action elsewhere, the film's best moments here come from the fish's massacre of the spring break members partying on the water as this here was quite the outrageous blast here as this is pure exploitation goodness featured here, as the events and discoveries leading up to them attempting to close the lake against the partiers, the debauchery of the drinking and wet t-shirt contest all before getting to the fish attacking. Unleashing tons upon tons of gore getting them ripping people to pieces or even just keeping them alive, the numerous rescue attempts getting people out of the water as the panicking masses flee to the other boats and safety while they relentlessly gnaw at those still out in the blood-red waters as all the rescues get pulled away to safety while the action of keeping the fish at bay just makes this one such a fun and exciting overall effort as this whole set-up is completely over-the-top fun.
The last plus here comes from the cool creatures those fish are, for not only do they come with a rather intriguing and wholly creative backstory but their design is really imposing and vicious which really lets them look cool even with their lame CGI, meaning this one really had it all. Just to nit-pick, this one had some woeful set-ups that look retarded in normal 2D that were set-up to be in 3D and tend to come off as contrived, yet that is just a nitpick to try to grasp at something in order to give this one something resembling a flaw. Overall, this here was a nearly flawless entry and one of the better entries to come along in a long time.
Overview: *****/5
One of the best in the genre, there's so much to like and enjoy with this one that it's frankly minor drawbacks are barely detrimental in the slightest compared to it's positives. Those who are fans of the style or approach as well as those of the creative crew will be really impressived with this one while only those turned off by the presentation will be the main ones turned off here.
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