The Last Shark

1982 "You're what's for dinner."
4.3| 1h28m| PG| en
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When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.

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Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
JasparLamarCrabb A dim witted & entirely shoddy rip-off of JAWS directed by none other than Enzo G. Castellari. To say Castellari, director of many great Italian crime thrillers, is out of his depth here is an understatement. When a 35 foot shark invades the waters off of an unnamed coastal community, James Franciscus & Vic Morrow (as deep sea divers?) attempt to kill it. Franciscus is bland while Morrow is absolutely dreadful...at times brandishing an Italian accent, at other times sounding Irish and then occasionally speaking with zero accent at all. All this and the inane dialog would be forgivable had the shark looked even remotely realistic (it doesn't).
oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1981, Rather bad rip-off of the block buster shark film from Universal Studios. The movie is a 'spin' doctor of the exact scenes that made the other film so successful. A bad copy of it.*Special Stars- James Franciscus, Vic Morrow.*Theme- Sharks love to eat.*Based on- Universal's film, 'Jaws' *Trivia/location/goofs- Filmed in Italy to cash in on the shark craze. *Emotion- A somewhat forgettable as a carbon copy of the big budget shark film with different leads. Here is the best example of how many international films and US films are just obvious remakes of films that caught the public's attention and made millions for their producers. This one fails miserably.
abigailjeffries I got a laser disc of this movie with very high quality and I instantly loved it. James Franciscus and Vic Morrow do great, and Franciscus does excellent in the end with his emotion. This movie is still a jaws rip-off but is still pretty original, and steals no footage from other movies. The only thing I didn't like about this movie were the terrible special effects. In some scenes, the shark looks horribly fake-but in others, it looks realistic. When people get eaten, some times they get pulled under the water. Although there will be occasional parts with disembodied limbs that are very, very fake looking. Other than that, the movie is great.
TheExpatriate700 When it was released, The Last Shark (aka Great White) got quickly pulled from theaters due to threats of a lawsuit from Universal Studios, producers of the Jaws movies. Having seen the film on DVD, I can see why. The writers of The Last Shark basically watched the first two Jaws movies and stole every good scene from them, even going so far as to clone characters.All the main elements from Jaws are here. The gnarled seaman...check. The heroic everyman...check. The corrupt government official who tries to cover up the attacks...check. Even some of the attack scenes mimic specific scenes in Jaws I and II.These things are made worse by the fact that the Italian studio behind this film had nowhere near Spielberg's budget. Consequently, we have an obviously fake shark model that appears every time the shark sticks it's head out of the water, which is quite often. The underwater shots are accomplished by a mixture of stock shark footage and very fake looking stop motion animation.Making things even more ludicrous is that the shark appears to be intelligent, engaging in uncharacteristic shark behavior such as trying to trap people in caves with rocks and using ropes as tow lines. At times, it comes across as a comedy.