Also, the storyline about Jessie going on his would-be honeymoon with her friends was totally unnecessary.
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Honestly, the least believable thing about this movie is the fact that not one of these characters wanted to sleep with Shane West. They’re picking them off one by one only to have it all culminate together in epic proportions! HOW COULD THE FILM HAVE BEEN BETTER? Typically, a shark murders someone in front of the other characters. Something I LOVED about this film that makes it different from other shark movies is no one is killed in front of anyone else for a while. The group revolves around Jessie ( Nicky Whelan) who goes on what was supposed to be her honeymoon with her best friends. While Harlan is doing that, we meet our hot people. So, Harlan sets off on his own revenge journey to take out the shark that destroyed his family. Sadly, but not surprisingly, she is dismembered by the shark.
We meet Harlan as he’s saying goodbye to his daughter who’s heading off to surf. I’ve also decided that this film is 100% a prequel, and once you realize the story is about Harlan (Adkins) and not the hot people it all makes more sense. I found myself laughing, and cheering the whole time. While MANEATER isn’t mindblowing by any means, it’s a great time! The story wastes no time setting up exactly what this film is going to be and never lets up on that promise. It’s easy to be pretentious when it comes to shark movies, but I guarantee if you look back at ones once deemed epic, you’ll realize they are not as good as you remember. The film tells the story of a group of friends who head off to a beautiful island only to be terrorized by a Great White Shark who likes to play with its food. Not one, but two characters are killed because they get tangled in lengths of rope! If shark fans are going to scrape the bottom of the chum bucket, even Sharknado 3 is a better choice than this.MANEATER stars Shane West ( Gotham) and Country Star Trace Adkins. But the attacks also lack suspense, occurring quickly - sometimes one on top of another - with no buildup. Maneater tries to make up for these shortcomings with scene after scene of gallons of blood swirling in the water. When the attacks finally start coming, close-ups of the shark don't seem to match shots of the humans, and the digital effects are so bad that they appear unfinished. Not even a likable actor like Shane West can do much with this stuff. (For the record, Maneater also undeservingly paraphrases a famous line from the 1975 original.) Aside from a flashback showing the first gory killing, this movie takes a while to get going, spending long moments on awkward, time-killing dialogue, all of which sounds like elevator small talk.Įven though the friends came to "party" (whoo!), their partying consists of quietly sitting in circles, sipping drinks, and chatting. Maneater seems somehow to have been inspired by the eye-rolling story of that infamous 1980s flop - i.e., that a cold water shark would somehow find its way to warm waters, not for food, but just to kill.
If you want to know just how bad this bloody, cheap-looking, overly talky shark-attack movie really is, here's a clue: It borrows an idea from Jaws: The Revenge, another abysmally bad shark movie.
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