Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The_Void As far as Italian rip-offs of American films go, this one is rather good. The film that is being re-imaged is, of course, Joe Dante's Piranha, and while the plot is clearly an excuse to cash-in; director Antonio Margheriti manages it to keep the film fun and interesting throughout. Margheriti is definitely a talented director; as shown by earlier films such as Danse Macabre and Seven Deaths in Cat's Eye, but he also has a tendency to take projects that are somewhat beneath him; films like this one. But even so, it has to be said that he does a rather good job, as he makes good use of his locations and the footage of the killer fish eating their intended victims is better than it was in Joe Dante's film. The plot focuses on a case full of pricey jewels that end up in a lake filled with deadly piranhas. These fish ain't no vegetarians, and they've been put there on purpose to guard the stones for one of the crooks. However, the case must be recovered, of course, and it's not long before all the major characters (which includes some fashion-related people) end up on a boat in the middle of piranha infested waters.The problem with this film is that the jewel thieves side of the plot is clearly and obviously just an excuse to have a film with piranhas in it, and the whole piranha plot is clearly just an excuse to cash in on Joe Dante's popular film...so it all feels a bit pointless. Still, nobody goes into a film like this to see a life-affirming piece of art, and so it's more important that the film is fun to watch, which it is. Some of the dialogue and events leading up the finale are more than a little bit dry, but there's usually just about enough else going to keep it from drying up completely. There's not a great deal of gore involved with this film, and most of the blood is soaked in water. The film waits a short while before anyone is killed, but this isn't a bad thing as the plot involving the jewel thieves isn't too boring. The cast isn't bad, with Lee Majors and cult star Karen Black doing well in the lead roles, and getting support from the likes of Antonio De Teffè. Overall, when it comes to Italian cinema; there are a lot of films that should be seen before this one - but if you're running out of stuff to watch, you could do worse than this.

neil-blackshaw1 I love this movie!!! We are talking "double cheese" here 1970's style. I saw this film many years ago on TV - I was a huge fan of Lee Majors in the "Six million Dollar man" - and it was great to see him in action taking on Jewel thieves/sexy models and Nasty killer fish in this low budget gem. The Brazilian background is really cool along with the 1970's fashions. The theme song performed by disco Diva Amii Stewart is catchy and the overall acting is ridiculously fun !! You don't get to see the actual killer fish very much but this only adds to the overall tension of the picture. A funny scene where "Ollie" - the fat photographer who gets eaten by the Piranha fish is really hilarious and a classic B Movie sequence. I am now a proud owner of the film on DVD and it stands proudly in my collection of B movie killer fish movies

dinky-4 This movie mixes together two sets of characters at a Brazilian lake-resort: a gang of jewel-thieves fresh from a heist and a company of people involved in photographing a fashion layout. The tensions and turmoils which occur when these two groups come together are not without interest but they create too much clutter. To correct this, some of the characters, (such as those played by Marisa Berenson and Gary Collins), might have been eliminated. A few of the incidents in the first half of the movie might also have been shortened or cut entirely in order to concentrate on the movie's strength -- a long but suspenseful sequence in the last two reels in which a number of people are trapped on a boat which is sinking in the middle of a piranha-infested lake.At least the clutter provides room for a large and rather bizarrely-diverse cast. Where else can one find, on one marquee, Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson, James Franciscus, Gary Collins, and Dan Pastorini?Lee Majors has a brief and disappointingly modest shower scene and James Franciscus gets to take his shirt off for a weight-lifting shot but most of the movie's "beefcake" is provided by 27-year-old football-quarterback Dan Pastorini of the Houston Oilers. There's a scene on his hotel-room bed in which Karen Black examines his bare chest for injuries following a car crash. This scene serves as kind of a warm-up for his appearance, two years later, in a Playgirl Magazine photospread set inside a shower room. While most of these photos showed Pastorini in a wet, filled-to-capacity jockstrap, others featured him in poses which suggest that his position on a football team should not have been "quarterback" but rather "tight end." The Brazilian backgrounds provide a bit of scenic interest, though not as much as one might wish, and there are some passably-good special effects when a dam breaks, creating a tidal wave of havoc.

stills-6 Watching Margeaux Hemingway in this movie is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Her lisp and stone-faced moroseness makes Lee Majors' eyebrow look like Marlon Brando, but she is nonetheless compelling. The same goes for the rest of the cast. You just can't believe how sincere everyone is trying to be and it's fascinating to watch.The last third of this movie is actually good fun, sort of like "Key Largo" without all of the intelligence to get in the way.