Blind Waters

Anthony Ferrante is now left to direct small scale shark movies in the aftermath of his Sharknado films becoming both the summit and pit of such things. That was all awhile ago now. Those films had larger and larger budgets and probably helped crasht the Science Fiction channelas they finally stopping making their lousy CGI ANIMAL attack movies. The fact that is over is something to be thankful for, but sadly Ferrante was unable to escape from the cheap but still clutching at him movie produced by The Asylum, a company that pays so little the State of California Labor board was actually after them for awhile.

In this one a too skinny girl and her too handsome boyfriend encounter a too much like BIlly Zane in Dead calm guy, rather well acted by Francisco Angelini. It'd be nice to see him have a real career, his take on the "Indianapolis" speech--if you dont' know what that is then you've never watched a shark movie before--is well done, though somewhat ruined by a sudden need, by the director, to shake the camera around, perhaps thinking this is the Blair Witch confessional/goodbye cruel work, mom I loved you, moment from that film. Hard to keep the iconic rip off moments straight I guess.

A couple of the cgi shark shots look okay, none of the shark attacks are convincing or scary or exciting. Some nice drone shots, which could be stock footage but probably aren't. A choppy ineffective music score credited to three people--probably just reused music from other Asylum produced movies.

It takes them 53 minutes to figure out they can use a cell phone to call for help and that's the least of the logic problems in the movie.

The movie is bits of other shark movies and basically runs out of ideas about an hour in so the lead gal then becomes more of less blind and we get back to a kind of Dead Calm plot for a bit. There are a numbe of soft focus shots supposed to be the point of view of our hapless lead gal, but none of them match what would be her natural perspective, the point of view shots aren't her actual point of view, though they often try to be. Someone kicks her and is aiming way off camera, this type of thing happens over and over.

It's just after so many years and so many shark movies you'd think Ferrante would have it down to an art or at least a craft, then again these are now made for so little money is so little time maybe there just isn't any art or craft that can escape. Ferrante is left to try to do what he can in the remains of Asyulm the production company. Too bad for him, but as viewers we can look elsewhere in this case.

This film is better than SWIM which Ferrante just wrote, to be even more terribly directed by Jared Cohnhead. Swim I believe was the first movie to bear the shame of the TUBI ORIGINAL brand, one we can only hope leaves behind what was done to death and badly a few years ago to do some films that can be more like Tubi's wide ranging titles. To be clear I like Tubi as a streaming network and I hope for better from this ORIGINAL BRAND, but I've not gotten it yet.

I suppose this film could be a drinking game with every time a character yells, "Faster." or "Swim," of or course "Shark."

The movie is really bad. Don't lose your time. Even but the usually shark movie standards this is really a bad one. I'm. Willing to pin the other way about the special effect and CGI but the plot is absurd. The acting is mediocre at best and the characters don't make any sense. And don't get me started about the shark. Is mightiest than Thor. I now this kid of movies are made to just pass the time but in this case it falls short my a milestone. Watch 47 meters down. It way better, the budget of the too is very similar but the movie is far superior. This one is just bad. Even taking into account the director is the same one from sharkanado don't expect anything enjoyable.

Okay it was free to watch on Tubi, so I thought I would give it a go.

Yes most shark movies land in this lane where this movie is, I.e. Teeeible acting, terrible effects, terrible story been done to death a hundred times better, cliche riddled.

This was in the so bad it's not even good category.

The boyfriend in the film, well the girlfriend should have dumped him on the spot, talk about accident prone, drops the ring, his boat won't start and gets bitten by the shark.

The girlfriend goes blind halfway through the film and she turns into a shark kicking butt person by the end of the movie.

They couldn't even see that the bad guy was acting strangely for them to be put off by him.

Even though the effects were badly done, obviously the film was cheaply done. If the story and attack scenes with the shark were any good then the movie would have been much better.

Terrible movie, waste of the runtime you could spend doing anything else more interesting including watching paint dry.

The shark wishes it could be as well done as the one in jaws, a movie made.almost 50 years ago and let's mpt ,emtion the story (or lack thereof) or teh acting.

It is not even bad enough it is good, just plain bad and that's coming from someone that usually enjoys cheap sharkl movies. This one is just plain bad and a waste of time. Watch ANYTHING else really.

What can I say more to complete this review? I mean The Shallows is also a ridiculous movie where a shark kills and eats so many people during the runtime that must have been one hungry shark but it is highly watchable, this one isn't, not just because it is ridiculous just because it is terrible in every way.

I think the director and actors don't know anything about ships, sharks, sea and human as well.

The acting is woeful. The performances that feel more like primary school drama class than a feature film. The characters are one-dimensional, delivering lines with a lack of enthusiasm that makes it hard to care about the survivals. You find yourself wishing for the sharks to finish them off just to end the agony of their interactions.

Visually, the film is a disaster. The special effects are laughable, with the CGI sharks resembling something out of an outdated video game. The underwater scenes are poorly lit and lack any sense of realism, making it difficult to feel any tension or fear.