RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK (2015)
Tagline: Evil Has An Appetite.
(Action, Adventure, Dumb Security Guards) [R]
Note: This movie wasn’t given an MPAA rating, but it would definitely be an R.
But... this is Canada. We don't have a National Guard. What are we gonna do?
In this one, some friends go to a remote island and immediately they realize there is a weaponized shark that has escaped from a lab hell-bent on killing everyone. Oh yeah, it also turns out everyone knows it was there but them and it flies. It’s literally just flying around gobbling people up. Prof. Carly Reynolds is recruited to kill it for some unknown reason. To top things off, the idiots that went to this island and are being killed happen to be here students.
First off, if you read my reviews a lot, you know that THE ASYLUM is near the bottom of movie making in the b-movie world they do a lot of shark movies. Of the studios that do shark movies, WILD EYE RELEASING is probably the next worst below THE ASYLUM, but they also have pretty interesting concepts. Then you have BRETT KELLY ENTERTAINMENT which has at least this film distributed by WILD EYE RELEASING but is below them overall in quality. There are probably 15-year-olds with iPhones that could make better shark movies than BRETT KELLY ENTERTAINMENT and WILD EYE certainly isn’t much better.
So when you see that cool cover with stuff exploding and a giant shark and all that stuff, just don’t go in expecting that. The CGI in this movie is “expert level bad”. It just sucks. There also isn’t a single plane in the entire movie. We do have a flying shark though, so I guess that’s something.
Acting-wise, Candice Lidstone who plays Prof. Carly Reynolds can actually act. She is better than the b-movies she’s doing regarding her talent. Sadly the rest of this cast is all terrible. No one is even close to good or even trying. It’s possible they do better in other films, but for this one, it’s finding drunk guys at a bowling alley and casting them horribly.
Trying to find positives is like trying to find a real needle in a stack of fake needles. However, we did get a decent poster and I was able to watch this for free on a streaming service. So if you have to lose a little over an hour of your life, it’s best to have whatever is taking that time be free. We also at least get a “lab created this shark” background, which is better than movies like 2 HEADED SHARK which don’t offer any explanation at all as to why that shark had 2 heads.
I can’t in good faith recommend this movie at all unless you are purposely trying to find bad shark movies to watch. Even in that case, maybe just buy a plastic shark are Hobby Lobby and film your own movie. At some point, I may make a list of shark movies and how they rank, but right now this is definitely on par with how bad JURASSIC SHARK is.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK gets a 2 out of 7. Some of the acting is even worse than what we got in JURASSIC SHARK.
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