Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

thesar-2 (Here's a resurrected review from early October 2008 when I began writing reviews, for the first time on my own – not published in a newspaper. It's extremely raw and I like to think I've improved since. My opinions rarely change and despite the quality below, I think I got most of my thoughts across.) I love it when film students take on huge projects for their final. Some categories to grade on: Originality (Deep Blue Sea, Jaws, Jaws: The Revenge, Piranha and any scene involving sunglasses), Dialogue ("You need to Live!", "This isn't good" and the best: "Shark alert, Shark Alert" (repeat 45x) – it would have had more urgency coming from Woody Allen) and Cinematography (Someone really, really likes rotating objects – there's an abundance of scenes looking up to those wonderful blades and as many angles as possible from someone driving a jeep). I was looking for a little corn, found this gem, and had to watch. I did, however almost give up laughing out loud at some of the 1st half scenes, but what kept me was the BBQ setup scene, and our hero flying out of the back of the jeep. Really nice of this guy to keep giving up his (not one but – ha ha ha ha ha, ah hem) multiple cars. I can see how they were trying to add humor, and they succeeded. Unfortunately, we were laughing at them. All I wonder why the bad Pokemon dubbing vs just subtitles. Perhaps they were afraid that would scare people away. No, not the crappy product they made, it was subtitles they were afraid of. I hope this film student flunks before Lions Gate gets a hold of him, or worse, Project Green Light.

George Kaplan I watched an English dubbed version of this, and I liked it. It's a bad, bad, bad movie but it's enjoyable for a couple of reasons.First, its fun to spot the ripoffs. The main plot is a mash of Jaws and Jurassic Park. I guess the makers really like Spielberg, because there's also a sequence that looks just like it was lifted from Duel. It also rips off a scene from the Terminator. I bet there's a bunch more 'borrowed' moments that I missed. Feel free to add more.Second, there are a couple of 'did that really just happen moments?' in the film. There's a rich playboy that pops up a couple of times that talks about the German Barbecue Association, and a band that plays a song all about 69, just to start. I'd also put the Terminator sequence in this category.Finally, there's just a bunch of stupid stuff, like helicopter pilots on long trips that don't go more than 100 feet off the ground, poorly composited special effects, and some really bad dubbing, that merit pointing out to friends and making fun of.To some up: it's a bad movie, but its enjoyable with the right frame of mind. Or maybe my standards are just slipping.

Axel_F My TV-Guide showed a big question-mark next to the film's title. They weren't able to give a comment on this film because the producing TV-channel didn't show it to journalists before its premier screening on TV. Well, they knew why...Quite ambitious for a German TV-film with quite a budget and quite a known cast and very large marketing campaign. But the film I had to see - the try of a mixture of "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park" - was very disappointing. And the special effects - not really good - weren't the worst of all things about the film!!! To me it seemed that the director tried to fulfill every audition's needs and so he delivered a patch work of multiple film elements, that didn't want to fit to each other. While as well "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park" were thrilling movies, in this movie every time there comes at least a small moment that might become thrilling, there is a cut and a change to a different scene, that destroys every thrill.And in a lot of cases, the following scene is an absolute senseless filler to make the movie longer. For example there is a long dancing scene on a party - maybe to give the 14-25 year old TV-customers some Mallorca-impressions - totally senseless. Or like some kind of "product placement" a full lenght performance of the German starlet Jeanette Biedermann singing her new song on the beach....I'd say: drop about 30 minutes of the film, take 10 minutes of new material and a very good cutter, maybe you can make at least an average film of it. Like it is by now, it's absolute waste of time watching it!

pierrot-3 *SPOILERS AHEAD* Well, what could I say about this "movie"... it's one of these movies where you wish you could sue someone to get the time wasted back, and you could also sue for the pain endured while watching it. 3 elements make this movie a pain:a "plot" which doesn't deserve this name. A man wants to kill the prehistoric shark (!) that killed his wife. Jurassic Park meets Jaws. Yawn. Besides missing any scientific logic, you will quickly start to realize that most roles in this movie are only clichés being filled: the German hero (ex-navy diver), the lazy Spanish policeman (who always looks stressed), the Spanish crook (played by a German with a whig on...), the good and the bad scientists (the good happening to fly helicopters in her leisure-time), etc...Bad acting. There is bad acting due to poor directors and bad acting due to poor actors. Here we have both. Its hard to fill a role which consists of saying highlights like "Sharks eat people", but at least try to look credible when you have to say such a thing.Computer effects which make Tron from 1982 look like the latest of special effects. Sharks (the secret heroes of this movie) which look fake. Not just a bit fake, but VERY fake (you can see that already in the beginning of the movie where sharks attack divers in a cage).In resume, no plot + bad acting + bad computer effects = painI' ll give it a 0,5 out of 5 stars for all the kerosene used in the helicopter-scenes.