Director: Stephen "Scruffy" Edgewood
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
Heading out to a remote island, a woman joins other models on a special photoshoot with a prized necklace at the centerpiece of everything, but when they realize that someone might be on the island with them looking for the necklace must try to get off the shark-infested island alive.
Review:
Overall, this was a pretty solid if flawed genre effort. Among the better aspects here is the way this sets up the intrigue of the photoshoot and how everything is going to take place in that location. With the setup involving them traveling to a tropical, remote island with an expensive piece of jewelry as the prize piece in the shoot, and how the whole mystery involving what the necklace means to others on the trip gives this a decent touch for a starting point. As the series of events escalates beyond the photoshoot, including the dead bodies that are discovered, the double-crosses that take place involving who's trying to steal the necklace, and the struggle to stop everything from going down, this allows for some fun aspects to go along with the great scenery present with this one.
There are some big flaws to be had with this one. The biggest issue here is that, for a film concerning the group supposedly coming together for a photoshoot on a remote island, the entire setup comes across rather weakly. Insisting on going for numerous signs of red flags regarding the nature of the shoot, from a last-minute change to the photographer in charge, a lack of proper security going along, the secretive nature of the treatment towards the necklace, the lack of access to the location, and damaged emergency equipment when they arrive, all highlight how obvious it is that something's going wrong yet there's nothing here that brings about any means of figuring out the intent behind it all. Since this all makes the sharks barely essential and not even meaningful to the plot beyond a marketing scheme, this lowers this one.
Overview: */5
A barely watchable non-killer shark thriller, this one is okay enough as long as you're aware of the bait-and-switch in the marketing, where it doesn't even need the sharks in the story, so it's mismarketed. Those who are appreciative of the approach of this one or who are curious about it will want to check it out, but anyone expecting a killer shark film will want to outright avoid it.
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