Director: Brett Bentman
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
After a series of accidents, the sheriff of a small Texas town is forced to confront the fact that a Bull Shark has escaped capture and is living in the lake despite his best efforts to stop it from being there, forcing him into one more battle to eliminate the creature once and for all.
Review:
This was an abject and utter failure in just about every regard. The only thing to enjoy with this one comes from the singular shark attack at the very beginning that sets everything up as the motive to get back into hunting down the escaped creature. The simplistic setup of the horny teenage couple disobeying orders and sneaking into the area where multiple shark attacks have occurred in the past, blowing past any attempt to accommodate their safety for the sake of sleazy desires, and then getting attacked in shallow water because of that is a fun way to get this going. The violence in the attack, the cheesiness of the shark prop, and the suspenseful nature of everything make for a decent starting point that is at least attempted later on when the group takes to the lake to try fighting off the sharks with some intriguing technological advances, which are interrupted by the sharks. These scenes are really all this one has going for it.
There’s nothing else about this one that’s worthwhile. Much like the other films in the series, the pace to this one is just excruciating, offering nothing but endless scenes of the sheriff going through the banalities of small-town life, a near endless series of scenes with him going back to his friends to help convince them to get back onto the lake to deal with the shark problem they thought was behind them, and just monotonous moments of the group traveling out on the water that go on for ages to the point of making for a genuinely uninteresting time. Nothing happens for so long here, and what happens isn’t exciting anyway, so those expecting any kind of shark action will be so disappointed here. There’s little this does to fix it, such as trying to impart witty banter between the group or force suspense with a nonsensical confrontation over the death of a friend, preventing their initiation of an operation to stop them, and with it being cheap and fake-looking as well, all bring this down overall.
Overview: 0.5/5
A disaster of a shark film in most regards, there’s so little to this one that’s worthwhile that it doesn’t generate much, except for the one lone enjoyable factor that makes this one even remotely likable. Viewers who have a sense of completing the franchise or who are undiscerning shark-movie aficionados will want to be the only ones to give this a shot, as most others out there should heed outright avoidance.
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