TronkyLizard
I get what its going for, everyone does. What really ruined it for me was the heartlessness of it. Ill try to explain.The movie just has no vision or point; Its "fun" but if you only understood the word technically. Its weird cause theres scenes and moments that DID have a genuine feeling or idea that didnt feel like it was put together by an alien.Tone/mood moves around from lighthearted to dark an grotesque at random uneven intervals, weird shifts that cemented a feeling that, well, these people dont know what they're doing. Aparently there was a lot of studio interference, so that could explain stuff. But aside from that part, something else that really bugged me was that the megalodon stops acting like a giant predator fish. Theres a whole segment in the middle where it has a chance to do crazy damage! But instead the shark just. Stops.It basically starts acting like a normal shark movie and it feels like forced suspense. Things that logically would've happened already just, wont happen, cause, the script said so.It happens in silly pop corn fluff, i get it, suspension of disbelief is really necessary in this kind of movie. All this negative stuff just keeps piling up, and this is stuff thats in the heart of the experience, i cant ignore it. Characters are fine on their own. Some even have some really nice scenes, but overall, they arent given a lot to do, so a lot of characters deaths dont really resonate. And the ones that were suppoused to be satisfying felt tasteless or like nothing at all.Technically its good, its competent, its an expensive hollywood film that everythi g by the numbers well. Anything less than this would just be ridiculous. Im just dissapointed. This could have been really good fun, I wanted it to be fun. But it was just an artificial and boring mess.
cumal
This is The Starkiller Base of shark movies. It's was action packed. It has decent, grand scale monster movie effects. It had jump scares. It had a bonafide action star in Statham. Warning!!! Leave your brain home and just have fun. The release was perfectly timed because there were no grand scale event type movies the week before or after. Enjoy your popcorn!!! P.S. Just when you thought it was safe to go... Aaaah you heard the before. Be safe swimmers...