Very disappointing...

Powerful

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

"James Ziegler" (Carlo Mucari) is a young man who likes to live dangerously and as a result decides to blackmail a rich and influential mobster for approximately $2 million in diamonds. Upon receiving the payment he then double-crosses them and flies to Mexico to see his brother "David Ziegler" (Treat Williams) who lives on a beach near shark-infested waters. Unfortunately, as soon as James arrives in Mexico he is murdered and the mob subsequently targets David who they believe now possesses the disk that implicates them in criminal activity. And these mobsters are more than willing to kill everybody associated with David to get what they want. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this wasn't a great movie by any means and could have been better if it had a bit more depth or attention to detail. For example, in one specific scene a bomb was placed on a boat but it didn't show who actually put it there. So for a moment it inadvertently appeared that David's loyal friend "Paco" (Antonio Fargas) and possibly the village priest "Father Mattia" (Christopher Connelly) were the guilty parties. Likewise, a couple of the conversations involving Father Mattia were almost inaudible as well. Even so, it was still entertaining to a certain degree and because of that I rate it as just slightly below average.

One positive for this film - it was cool to see old Huggy Bear once again, Antonio Fargas who was a trip in the late Seventies on the 'Starsky and Hutch' TV series. But they made him do that corny accent, what was it - Jamaican? Answer this question - why keep antagonizing the shark? And why go swimming where the shark hangs out if you know he likes attacking anything in the vicinity? Ostensibly this was a quick paycheck for Fargas, Treat Williams and whoever else showed up. "Night of the Sharks" if I recall correctly, has no night time scenes, but there are a couple of bloody encounters with the great white one that in a better flick might have been more terrifying. The story rambles and takes a tedious amount of time to wrap things up, so help yourself out with the fast forward button; you won't miss anything important.One other positive - Juanita muy caliente!

I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 because I think "The Wild Women of Wongo" is worse. This is an exercise in patience. It's like having your teeth cleaned by a bad dental hygienist. There's no plot. There's no logic. There is certainly no acting (although the shark has some quality dialogue). We don't wonder about anything. We don't know how people got where they got. It's always amazing to me how things like this even get released. I agree with the previous writer that it isn't even funny bad. I know. It's about 90 minutes long and that will fill up about that much space on a DVD collection. It's like a paperweight. Or a bad painting you bought at a starving artists' sale. It covers the crack in the wall.

-SPOILES- Lame south of the border adventure movie that has something to do with the blackmail of a big cooperate executive Rosenlski the president of Unasco Inc. by on the lamb beachcomber David Ziegler who's living the life of Reilly, or Ziegler, in his beach house in Cancun Mexico.Having this CD, that he gave to his brother James, that has three years of phone conversations between Rosenlski and the President of the United States involved in criminal deals. This CD has given David an edge over the international mobsters who are after him. The fact that James get's a little greedy by trying to shake down Rosenlski for 2 million in diamonds not only cost him his life but put David in danger of losing his as well. Ropsenlski want's to negotiate with David for the CD by getting his ex-wife Liz to talk to him about giving it up, Rosnelski made a deal to pay off her debts if she comes through. David is later killed by Rosenliski's Mexican hit-man Tony, with the help of a great white shark, who just doesn't go for all this peaceful dealings on his boss' part. Tony had taken the CD that Liz left for his boss at a local hotel safe and now want's to murder James, like he did David, and at the same time keep the CD to have something over Rosenlski.David who had secretly hidden the diamonds that James had on him at the time of his murder is now the target of Tony and his men to shut him up for good. David also wants to take the diamonds and at the same time give his boss Rosenlski the impression that the CD that David had is lost but use it later, without Rosenlski knowing who's behind it,to blackmail him. The movie "Night of the Sharks" has a number of shark attacks in it with this huge one-eyed white shark who ends up taking out about a half dozen of the cast members including Tony. David who's a firm believer in gun-control uses knives high explosives and Molotov cocktails, as well as his fists, to take out the entire Tony crew. Even the killer shark is finished off by Tony but with a hunting knife, not a gun. When it came to using firearms to save his friend and sidekick Paco a girlfriend Juanita and his priest Father Mattia lives from Tony and his gang guns were a no-no with David; he was more of a knife and spear man then anything else. The ending of the movie was about as predictable as you can make it with David thought to be killed by the one-eyed shark later pops up out of the crowd,after Rosenlski was convinced that he's dead and leaves the village. David continues his life as a free living and loving beachcomber with no one looking to kill him and about two million dollars richer. to David's credit he had his friend Paco give Rosenski back his CD but under the conditions that if anything happened to him his cousin, who Rosenlski doesn't know who and where he is, will shoot his big mouth off and let the whole world know about his dirty and criminal dealings.