Director: Lukás Vokoun
Year: 2025
Country: Czech Republic
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
After a series of accidents, a local police chief in Prague becomes convinced that a mad doctor is experimenting with Bull Sharks in the city canals and turning the genetically modified sharks loose for a world domination plot, forcing him and several other team members to stop the creatures.
Review:
On the whole, there wasn’t a whole lot to really like here. One of the better elements to be had here is the delight in being immensely campy and silly regarding how the creature attacks are handled since this brings the creatures out of the water and onto dry land for a chance to attack humans. Going the route of the creatures being genetically modified and tampered with by a mad scientist so that they’re endowed with special powers to survive on dry land, this is serviceable enough and gives this a workable route to take things as this goes along. The mix of espionage action and creature action that emerges as the authorities race to track down the creator of the sharks and deal with the rampaging creatures here is solid enough, offering the kind of intriguing action where the group searching for the doctor or getting to see quick-cut ambush sequences of the creatures jumping out and grabbing random strangers along the water. These are decent enough and handled with some suspense and cheesy action and gore to give this some likable factors.
There are some big issues present that hold this back. The biggest drawback here is the mind-numbingly dull and bland pace on display where hardly anything interesting happens for long stretches of the running time. Listening to endless minutes of the police officers going through the history of the case and trying to make sense of the bizarre series of clues left behind regarding the animal attacks taking place in the city, and the amount of interest that the whole thing undertakes is absolutely bare-bottom. There’s no energy or enthusiasm in what’s going on, as it’s a dangerous situation here to try to synthesize a cure for deadly, man-eating sharks capable of leaving the water and roaming the streets and canals, but here it’s so bland and lifeless just listening to them going on about how to do so that it completely drains any chance the film had at getting going. The conversations and interactions here are so lifeless that there’s little here that stands out, and when the secondary storylines about the team’s troubled backstory involving not being able to see their family because of how much they’re working, it all comes to bring this down.
Overview: */5
A wholly dull and underwhelming killer shark film, there are a few parts that are worthwhile here, but most of those are overwhelmed by the series of detrimental and damaging issues featured in this one. Those with an appreciation for the style or approach of this one or who are hardcore shark-movie apologists will want to give it a shot, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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