Theo Robertson A deep sea drilling project has started which means only one thing - bad things are about to happen and the only thing that can stop it are impossibly young and good looking scientists . Just in case you're hard of thinking the lines between the good guys and bad guys aren't blurred in anyway and an early scene sees young good looking scientists get involved in an argument with riggers and greedy company boss that mankind is ruining the planet . The greedy company boss of course has an English accent just like every villain has since cinema started using sound in films so you can guess where all this might be headingActually you might wonder where it's heading because for the first third absolutely nothing happens and the audience might be bored and I know I was and in order to vainly fight against this boredom the screenplay inserts the occasional character development piece such as " pretty blond scientist who doesn't look old to be an undergraduate having a panic attack because she suffers from claustrophobia " Hmmm . Let me see now someone who suffers from claustrophobia volunteers to work in an underwater sea base ? I look forward to seeing an astronaut who is scared of heights As you can guess the film then turns in to a science fiction film set under the sea . There was a glut of similar films released all at the same time in the late 1980s and none of them did very well at the box office , probably down to a potential audience seeing through them as being derivative ALIEN inspired movies that had merely changed the setting of outer space in to the inner Earth of a deep ocean and this movie resembles those . That said it is very slightly better than much of the stuff I've caught on the SyFy channel and better production values would have helped the limp script even though it wouldn't have been a hit at the box office

Welshfilmfan I really enjoy B Movies so I decided to watch 'Megalodon' on an obscure Cable Channel, merely down to it's title, I wasn't expecting a lot & my Expectations were rock bottom as it was, I thought it might be Trashy but Watchable, like the Sci-Fi Channel productions, or something in the vein of 'Shark Attack'.... Nothing could prepare me for this virtually unwatchable pile of steaming crap.It's set on a oil rig supposedly staffed by a mere 22 people....if you thought that wasn't many....actually in this entire movie you only see SIX of them throughout (probably as the budget only covered half a dozen 'actors' at $500 a pop) The acting was actually worse than I expected, The 'Actors' here was so awful they wouldn't even make it as bit players in a Steven Segal Movie... but I Don't mind bad acting as long as it's action filled....erm... this isn't.......NOTHING HAPPENS, It's all filmed in a broom cupboard of about 8 square feet. There is No Tension & No Action - I was bored out of my mind while watching, but persevered To the end, so I could save others from this dreadful fate by writing this review.Everything in this movie is fake, from the oil rig, to the snow, to the helicopter and and even the boat at the end (which does look like the kind of boats kids push in the city lake near where I live) and also obviously the shark using the worst possible computer generated effects.I would be amazed if more than a $100k was spent on this dire & painful mess.1/2 * out of *****

Wite Stik This movie was released the same year as Spider-man 2, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, The Incredibles, and The Day After Tomorrow, you would expect some descent graphics. 2004 was a year of amazing CG achievements. This movie just kills that reputation. It looks like they hired a relative of the producers who knew how to work a PC. Everything is computer animated. Everything looks like crap. They try to blur the images by putting tons of light around it, but it doesn't hide the disgrace. I am a pacific islander, I grew up with fish right in my backyard. The fish in this movie don't look like fish and especially don't move like them.This is not worth your time, rent it and let your grandparents watch it, it should please them.

M. T. From the DVD cover itself, I wasn't expecting much, but I rented this movie anyway because I love the general subject matter (monsters, sharfks, etc). The first thing I was impressed with was the CGI of the drilling platform and helicopter, and from there the acting. Considering some of the crap I have rented in my life I found this acting was not poor because of the actor's talent, rather because of what was (in places) a poorly written script. And on that note, wasn't htis the same plot as Deep Star Six (a superior, similar film)? What about Leviathan too? ANyway, this point aside, the acting and the CGI were acceptable (suprisingly). The pacing was good until about an hour in, when I relaized the shark hadn't yet made an appearance! When it did, I closed my eyes, expecting Deep Blue Sea-type crap cgi, but the shark was done pretty well. From there, however, things went downhill. The characters did not act as I might imagine people would act trapped in an elevator beneath the ocean with a giant shark amongst them; the method by which the shark was destroyed made no sense (was not explained); the scene on the ice flow when the shark attacks the minisub was poor cgi. Backtracking a moment -- what happened when the shark was destroyed? The minisub vanished! I laughed out loud at that point.ANyway, all in all for four bucks and expecting crap I was mildly surprised by the entertainment value of this movie. I love that there are still producers etc., making these types of movies and story lines. My humble, final constructive criticism: TAKE YOUR TIME and watch the final version before shovelling it out the door. A FEW touch-ups to the CGI, a few inserted scene to clarify things, and this would have been a pretty good Saturday afternoon monster movie. How about some personality for the shark, too -- Jaws had personality.See it, but only for the fun of the storyline. Some better, similar flicks include, Deep Star Six and Leviathan.