Shark Night
Synopsis:
The movie started with 7 University undergraduates, Sara (played by Sara Paxton) a popular girl, Nick (Dustin Milligan) a medical student, Beth (Katherine McPhee), couples - Malik (Sinqua Walls) & Maya (Alyssa Diaz), Blake (Chris Zylka) and Gordon (Joel David Moore) went on a holiday trip to Sara's vacation house in a secluded lake after their semester break. There, they encountered Sara's ex Dennis (Chris Carmack) and his partner, Red (Joshua Leonard) who nearly got into a fight with Malik and Maya but quick intervention by Sara. They also encountered Sheriff Sabin (Donal Logue) who is a family friend of Sara. While at the vacation house, Nick, Blake, Malik and Maya decided to go on a water skiing but things turn out horribly wrong when a shark attack Malik and bitten off his arm. When Sara, Nick and Maya when for help in Sara speedboat, the shark attack the boat, kills Maya and crashes the boat. While they were still in a daze, Dennis and Red came to their rescue and offer to contact nearby hospital while bringing along Beth and Gordon. However, during their journey, Dennis and Red decided to turn on both Beth and Gordon by revealing that they are the ones who throw the sharks into the lake and later throws Gordon to the water to be eaten by a shark while throw Beth to baby sharks to be eaten alive while shooting their camera. It is later reveal that Dennis and Red is part of a group that capture videos of victim eaten alive to be sold off to reality networks. While at the vacation home, Blake decided to take Malik on a beach scooter to the nearby hospital judging from Malik losing a lot of blood. However during their journey there, other sharks attack and kill off Malik and Blake. Sheriff Sabin came to the vacation home after saw a huge explosion involving Sara speedboat. While there, Sheriff Sabin attack both Sara and Nick and also reveal that Sabin is working together with Dennis and Red to film a snuff movie involving sharks. Nick manage to kill Sabin by pushing him into a water infested with Tiger Sharks and then proceed to save Sara by having Dennis kill off Red during a confusion and then let a shark attack Dennis.
Review:
The premise setting is a normal slasher-monster kind of movie with teenagers partying at the outskirt with minimal people at the surrounding. It was predictable but i kinda like to watch these movie where we get to see the teenagers getting killed one by one in the most innovative way possible. But this movie sucks big time. Firstly, there are not much character development for each of the 7 teenagers even though we knew that they will become shark meal later in the movie. The movie started so-so and it was quite engaging in the 1st 15 minutes when a shark finds the 1st victim in Malik's arm. Then after, it totally gone downhill and there are no real suspense with the shark attack and even worse, the movie isn't really about sharks too. The sharks are consider secondary to the real villain of the movie, Sheriff Sabin, Dennis and Red. It was a total turn-off once it was reveal half-way through the movie that Dennis and Red is behind the shark attack. Well the best thing is that the movie ended really fast. I think the movie only lasted around 80~90 mins which was okay by me judging that they don't really have much script to work with for this movie. It was a disappointing entry by David R. Ellis. The 3D is horrible and there is not much 3D effect at all for this movie, so don't waste money.
The best shark movie is still " The Reef" for this year.
Verdict:
1 star out of 5.
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