PLANET OF THE SHARKS (2016)
Bloody hell. Okay so in this one the worlds ice caps have
melted and everything is pretty much dead but a few humans who watched Waterworld and sharks. Yep…just a ton of sharks eating people because that is the last
thing left to eat. As one above water village after another falls prey to a mutated
alpha-shark and his friends, the humans left are trying to basically find a way
to activate a volcano so they can get some land mass going and live happily
ever after. So far so good.
This is a sci-fi movie in conjunction with Asylum so we know we are not getting any sort of real budget here and every explosion will be totally bargain basement CGI. Because of that these movies also don’t get top notch talent most of the time. Unfortunately no one in this thing stands out as someone you would clamor to see in another flick except (maybe Brandon Auret who was in Chappie, District 9 and Elysium). The few that do appear to be trying are overshadowed by overblown fake science non-sense and a ton of unbearable coma inducing dialog. This is normal for a scifi movie, but this one overplays its hand. I literally had to watch this movie one half at a time. In the beginning of the movie this young girl is rescued from an attacked water village but provides nothing to the plot and isn’t even given a single line. What the crap? She is in almost every shot in the movie.
This is a sci-fi movie in conjunction with Asylum so we know we are not getting any sort of real budget here and every explosion will be totally bargain basement CGI. Because of that these movies also don’t get top notch talent most of the time. Unfortunately no one in this thing stands out as someone you would clamor to see in another flick except (maybe Brandon Auret who was in Chappie, District 9 and Elysium). The few that do appear to be trying are overshadowed by overblown fake science non-sense and a ton of unbearable coma inducing dialog. This is normal for a scifi movie, but this one overplays its hand. I literally had to watch this movie one half at a time. In the beginning of the movie this young girl is rescued from an attacked water village but provides nothing to the plot and isn’t even given a single line. What the crap? She is in almost every shot in the movie.
Planet Of The Sharks is not the worst nightmare the Asylum
has heaped on its fans. I do have to
give them credit for at least coming up with an interesting plot, but the
execution and casting is so miscalculated it’s hard to bump up my score based
on that alone. Actual sharks (CGI of course) in this feel very few and far
between when compared to the 1 million other shark movies out there. Even the
slow motion scenes are ineffective and oddly placed. If you are on a
Shark-Movie-A-Thon, I’d skip this in that line up for fear of boring your
attendees to freakin death.
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