hyped garbage

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

September 2, 2011 "Shark Night 3D" is the worst shark picture to come out since "Jaws: The Revenge" sunk audiences back in 1987 and scared them away from going to the theatre to see a shark movie. "Deep Blue Sea" reminded us to stay away and"Piranha 3D" was considerably bad but this picture shows that the shark movies are long outdated and dead in the water. I knew this going to be bad but I didn't think it would be as terrible as it is. This film is just awful in every aspect.It's about a group of university graduates, Sara (Sara Paxton) and who the hell cares, who drive to Sara's family vacation home on a private lake. When one the kids goes wake-boarding, he is attacked by a shark and loses his arm. Realising the lake is infested with sharks, they attempt to get to the mainland before they become lunch.That was an easy plot to get through mainly because I don't care about anyone of anything in this picture. Thanks to a faulty PG-13 rating, the gore is reduced and the nudity is cut out. I walk into every film expecting something out of it but I got nothing from this but a headache. I had a hard time trying to figure out what the title of the film means? What the hell is a Shark Night? The 3D aspect is to rip audiences off, even more, most of them paying 12 dollars to see this and we are left with one of the worst films in the last 30 years. I think this might be more stupid than "Jaws: The Revenge." I use it because its fabled for being a terrible film that Universal Pictures road off. It's so easy to compare the films but I think this trash might be more stupid in terms of intelligence.Do You remember in "Friday the 13th Part III" when the van died and the woman becomes trapped and must fight Jason in the barn? Now in the digital age, cell phones lose service and the characters must find a way out of the situation. In this case, it's driving a boat on the water and hoping they don't become lunch. It's very hard to confuse me with a movie but I had to ask myself the question "how does one get the idea to feed college kids to sharks simply by watching the discovery channel?" While, they try to make sense of that by using the digital age as a backdrop. The moron villains of the film have dumped the sharks into the lake with cameras attached to the bellies in an attempt to show snuff films on the internet. I don't feel bad that I ruined that and I might reveal the end of the picture because this is as close as I hope you get to seeing this film.None of the characters prevail in any form and are simply shark bait. The screenwriter of the film couldn't have worked very hard to write something decent and his decision to write a screenplay where the film is taken seriously as a slasher film is laughable. I can't begin to believe a major motion picture like this could be greenlit or maybe I can. With the rise of recent 3D movies, it's no surprise that this was conjured up as a means the suck the dollar out of the average moviegoers. Why not, 3D failed to save the "Jaws" series back in 1983 and since 3D is too expensive, post-production 3D is cheaper, hence ripping off audiences more who will pay to see this. Even the 3D to the film is bad. There are two aspects: 3D above the water and 3D under the water. The depth of field under the water is so sharp, it will give you a serious headache.Sara Paxton is wasted in the film as the one who is supposed to have brains, none of them do, but it's the stupidity of the characters that really took me by surprise. Why would you swim out into shark infested water to retrieve your friends arm after he was just attacked? Furthermore, why would anyone arm themselves with a harpoon and venture into the water to attack the shark that ate your girlfriend? you might get eaten you know. The sharks look worse than anything in this picture. They look absurd and one of them leaps out of the water and attacks someone on a jet-ski. It's worse than it sounds, trust me. By the second act, you know the moron villain, Dennis (Chris Carmack) and Sara have a history together and it will serve as the climax of the film.If you haven't figured out the ending yet, don't worry because It doesn't matter. I have decided not to ruin the ending, although it's very tempting but with a film as stupid as this, you can figure it out for yourself. When we learn the revelation, it's enough to make you want to get up and leave because we have had a horrible time. As pitiful as this film is, it speaks volumes about Hollywood as well. If they are willing to greenlight a cash grab film such as this, it shows the they are willing to easily rip off the unsuspecting moviegoers and that's about as despicable as this trash film is. Save you hard earned money, you will be thankful.0/10

This shark attack thriller directed by David R. Ellis follows a group of Tulane University students who head off to spend their spring break at a lake house at the Louisiana Gulf. What starts off as a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare when one of their friends trails out of the water with one of his arms torn off by what they first believe to be an injury from a skiing accident. It quickly turns out to be a result of a shark attack. With a large group of sharks lurking around the lake and no signal for help available, these seven college kids are faced with unimaginable terror as they fight to survive against the massacre of hungry sharks and authorities who reveal to be who they appear to be. Featuring the cast of Sara Paxton, Katharine McPhee, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Joel David Moore, Chris Zylka, Alyssa Diaz, Donal Logue, Sinqua Walls, and Joshua Leonard; this creature thriller borrow elements from movies like 'Jaws' and uses him with poor execution and sloppy direction.This creature feature was already targeted with criticism before its release when it first received its PG-13 rating, much to the dismay of horror fans who were expecting to experience the blood and gory fun that creature films are often known for. As a result, the film is neutered down to gore-less shark attacks. Jaws received a PG rating at the time of its release, but that is only because the PG- 13 rating was not available at the time. The blood and gore displayed in that 1975 classic would definitely be slapped with a PG-13 today, if not an R. Suffering from lazy execution, this film is not only depraved of its blood and gory fun and solid written characters, but it completely empty of any sort of suspense. The movie is never scary nor is manage to be suspenseful, and instead treats viewers with dirt cheap thrills that fall of the horror aspect. When a character is attacked by a shark, all that is seen blood filling up the water with the character's offscreen demise, no suspense associated with these scenes. Now lets discuss the plot and the characters. With the lazing writing by Will Hayes and Jesse Studenberg, the characters feel so wooden and underdeveloped that you don't really care for any of them, and the plot doesn't do much to redeem this. The first half focuses on the teenagers trying to fight against the sharks after one of them is attacked and another one gets eaten. Then the second the half deals with the characters being taken hostage by men played by Chris Carmack and Jimmy Lee Jr. who reveal to be mindless savages trying to feed them to the sharks. From there on, the plot falls into extreme inconsistency and ceases to make sense. Shark Night is a terrible excuse of a horror film, and is way too watered down for its own good. The thin characters, poor plot, and overall sloppy script make this film far too difficult to recommend thanks to its PG-13 rating.

Trying to have a relaxing weekend trip on a freshwater lake, a group of friends finds the festivities ruined by the repeated attacks by a group of sharks placed in the lake by exploitative fishermen and must try to get out alive.Frankly, this is one of the more disappointing and frustrating efforts to come along since there's so much here that could've been made great that instead turns this into a rather pedestrian affair. One of the biggest lapses of all is the complete and utter stupidity and lameness regarding the plot which has several humongous holes in it. Besides the fact that most of the species chosen pose no threat to man and don't eat meat in their diet yet do so here, one of the biggest is the fact that the sharks featured are all fresh-water creatures and can't survive in fresh-water, of which we're told repeatedly that it is, yet there's nothing that states why the sharks are able to thrive as long as this one states as the operation is evidently running smoothly for quite a while. As for why it's gone so long unnoticed manages to uncover it's biggest non-surprise plot-twist later on almost right from the beginning with the surprise helper in the operation uncovered right from the moment this is found out, and thereby forces the film to go on far longer than it should with scenes clearly shown simply to beef up the running time and keep the group in danger beyond all sense of realism since the first gimmick part to this clearly isn't strong enough to support a full-length film without a lot of extra help in order to keep them in the water, and because they're being forced into the water by others rather than faced with no alternative and must be there to begin with, it really takes the fear out of the sharks because they're only the lapdogs of someone else and don't have a mind of their own, making for a rather piddly sense of fear from them. On top of that, we're faced with utterly atrocious CGI for the sharks that don't in the slightest portray any sense of realism or hide this computerized nature, and the 3D effects are pretty much the same exact gag repeated over and over of the shark swimming open-mouthed at someone from out of nowhere which really wears thin after a while. While there's some fine attack scenes in here, including a marina explosion, a frantic race to get to a safety dock in the water and a water-ski chase through a lagoon providing both action and some suspense that proved it could've handled some fun scenes here and there, overall this one was a terrible disappointment.Rated PG-13: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, drug use and animals-in-danger.

**Spoiler Alert**There I was, standing in front of RedBox trying to figure out what to rent with my "free rental code" and after the anxiety had slipped away I landed on Shark Night. Now I was very unsure how to accept or prepare for this movie after reading other reviews on this movie, And I will tell you this..... If you are looking for some just plain old movie fun then this is your movie. Shark Night was actually filmed quite well, had good acting, and there was a story involved too. Sure it was silly and dumb and some scenes did not really make sense, like how smart and amazingly aggressive the sharks were, but man this movie was fun!!!Its about 7 college friends that go for a weekend of fun at a friends lake house for vacation. After some crazy in-water occurrences happen, they realize that there are a lot of different species of sharks in the water. I will not spoil the movie too much for you but after a dude gets his arm ripped off and people start to die then things start to take a twist.Basically if you like to watch good cinematography, little bit of blood and gore, action, and scenes that don't really add up but are still entertaining to watch then I suggest this movie.RATING 7 out of 10