Director: Dustin Ferguson
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
After an accident on a secret space station, a disaster releases a group of humanoid mutated sharks upon the population of a small community on Earth and forces a government agent to race to stop the creatures and protect the citizens before proof of their existence is revealed.
Review:
Overall, this was a pretty disappointing if still watchable enough cheesefest. What works best here is the genuinely fun and likable attack scenes of the sharks running wild, hunting down the people they come across. The series of ambushes that take place within the confines of the gated community out in the wilderness that includes a couple using the spot for a stopover on their way to a special date, the hiker looking to use the peace and quiet to read, or the series of ambushes that take place on the tour group hiking through the area which includes numerous instances of the stand-by setup of the group wandering off by themselves only to come across the sharks. Their use of disguising themselves with invisibility tactics, heat-vision, and general stalking approaches is solidly ripped off from other films, but they’re integrated here for plenty of campy fun and gloriously chest action as the hilariously over-the-top effects provide throughout here.
Beyond that, though, this one does tend to suffer through the worst of the traditional indie tropes usually featured in the genre. The incessant padding for a film that barely clocks in at an hour long is a prime candidate, featuring a five-minute credit sequence that has little reason to be that way, endless shots of someone wandering around trails looking to encounter something in the woods, or the scenes of the agent receiving threatening phone calls from an unknown source all just feel included here to beef up a running time that desperately needed it. As well, there’s the cheesy low-budget limitations imposed on this one which range from the same locations being used over and over again despite being told they’re different places, flimsy props, and the usual assortment of scenes offering utterly cheap and goofy CGI that captures the charm of the style quite well but has a laughable quality to it as well that manage to bring this one down overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A likable enough if somewhat flawed genre effort, this is a pretty simple cheesefest that works better for those who have an appreciation and tolerance for the style due to the limitations present. Those who do appreciate this approach or who are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here, while most others out there might want to heed extreme caution.
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