Showing posts with label shark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shark. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 September 2025

Dangerous Animals (2025)

As if to demonstrate the abyssmal depths to which film has sunk, this serial killer thriller and creature-feature mash-up, about an Australian serial killer who feeds foreign tourists to sharks, is built up around its thirty-minute-mark spectacle of a woman being torn to pieces by a shark, and nothing else matters:, the plot, very possibly spat out by Chatgpt, starts with a thoroughly unclever and utterly unrewarding opening sequence, then features disappearing bodies, plastic shiv neck injuries and knife wounds that are shaken off and disappear, plot lurches that defy logic, and a lot of repetitive catch-and-escape, catch-and-escape sequences - Tom and Jerry cartoons are more entertaining and efficient - and chaining the film industry to its watery grave forever at the bottom of the ocean is the fact mind-numbed audiences have given this prosaic nonsense an 86% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

★★☆☆☆

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Thursday, 27 April 2017

The Reef (2010)


There are two or three tense moments in this low-budget Australian 'natural horror' movie about a group of friends terrorised by a shark after their boat capsizes off the Queensland coast but otherwise it all quickly becomes a repetitive cycle of underwater goggle shots and the frantic treading of water.

☆☆☆

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Monday, 9 January 2017

The Shallows (2016)


Despite a rather bewildering climax, at just 80-odd minutes, this is a punchy thriller in the vein of the 2015-2016 spate of single-location, simply-themed confined-space thrillers (Green Room, Don't Breathe, Lights Out) featuring a likeable Blake Lively as a med student surfie struggling to stay alive on a rock at sea with a viscous shark circling, high tide approaching, and just a seagull for company.

★★★☆☆

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