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While it's difficult to find anything useful to add to the many insighful reviews of this "movie," there is at least one performance I think deserves special mention. Shark Attack 3: Megalodon offers one of the best examples of "method acting" I've ever seen. Leading man John Barrowman so immerses himself in his character that his single-minded approach dominates every scene. Unfortunately, the character he assumes for this movie was not that of Ben the glorified lifeguard who appears in the script, but the character of Tom Cruise playing Ben the lifeguard. In almost every shot, Barrowman can be seen ripping off a Cruise smile, a Cruise laugh, a Cruise pose, a Cruise expression, a Cruise anything he can get his hands on. And all this is completely independent of whatever Ben the Lifeguard is supposed to be doing in the scene other than being a Tom Cruise impersonator. I've seen some other actors attempt similar feats (Skeet Ulrich as Johnny Depp comes to mind), but none has taken on this particular role with such scrupulous dedication and total disregard of its effect on the actual movie.

Shark Attack 3 is truly an awful movie, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't grab some friends and popcorn and spend your evening watching it. It is so awful, the acting so campy, the special effects so cheesy, the dialog so terrible and the plot so contrived from Jaws that this movie is a must see. The sharks are nothing more than stock footage (and how does stock footage eat people? you ask...oh, you'll see!), the Mexican actors are, in actuality, Russian/Bulgarian, and there are some truly unforgettable scenes. Not to mention a rather dirty pick-up line...

I've seen some bad movies in my day, but I must admit that Shark Attack 3 truly takes the cake. Go check it out yourself. (But avoid Shark Attacks 1 and 2, they're reportedly decent.)

PS I changed the ten to a one since a lot of SA3 'fans' want it in the Bottom 100. I agree.

I can say in all seriousness that this film is the funniest I have ever had the good fortune to watch. The fact that the humor is unintentional only makes it that much better (unless this is all a joke and it really is supposed to be this bad). In any case, anyone who feels like their life is going poorly, just remember: not once, at any point in your life have you ever produced anything half as bad as this movie. Everything about this movie, from the script to the acting and, especially, to the special effects, is literally laugh-out-loud funny. I strongly strongly recommend Shark Attack 3: Megalodon to anyone who hasn't revelled in its B-movie glory.

I watched this film a couple of nights ago and found it positively hysterical. It feels like either a really good spoof of Jaws (and lets face it, how many good spoofs do we get nowadays?) or a completely awful rip off of Jaws. From the very first scene with the cigar-chomping incomprehensible sailor guy to the magical size changing shark I was rolling around on the floor laughing. There are actors who look like they are laughing when they are supposed to be crying, there are random bikini girls who strut by during most of the talking scenes, and I haven't even started on the gems in the script (I won't spoil any of it, but it's safe to say: If you know anyone who talks like this in day to day life, please slap them). You have to see this movie.

When I first watched the movie, I recognized a lot of footage from underwater documentaries (the producers should check copywright details with the estate of cmdr. Cousteau & others). The first half of the movie was no more than a lame excuse to show naked women and people being eaten. If you look close you can actually see a lot of editing mistakes. PS. sharks do not roar like some kind of mutated dog in the water !!!

When the director tries to create the feeling that the shark is swimming at a tremendous depth, you can see the surface in the background. The same goes vice versa.

In the second half there are different sharks taking on the role of the lead character. The actual megalodon is displayed as a 30's monster that eats everything in its path. A shark (even a Megalodon), would never eat a full size motorboat or jetski, try passing such a thing true your intestine...?. And why, were people jumping in the water when there is a shark attacking your boat? Why .... you should check it out yourself, you'll find lots of fun things to discuss.

I don't usually comment on films that have more than 100 reviews I agree with, but I can not help but comment on this one. Not that there is much to add, mind you. This film is craptacular! On one hand it may just be the worst movie ever, and I mean ever, made. One the other, I have never laughed that much at a film before.

The shark that changes from a Great White to a Tiger shark, back to a Great White in one attack. Ben's fabulous digital camera, which magically knows what he's taking a picture of and removes everything else from the photo. The lead actress (and I use the term actress loosely) who never stops smiling, even when she's crying. The mini sub that's bigger inside than outside. The Bulgarian actors trying to sound like Mexicans. The totally redundant sex scenes. The LINE (you probably know what it is, but on the off chance you don't - you'll know it when you hear it). All this adds up to hilarity. Too bad they were aiming for horror.

Some people will say that it's a bad film, and advise against it. If I had expected a good megalodon (megalo-who? lol) film and been shown this instead, I would have been disappointed. But people, lets face it, it's called Shark Attack 3! How serious can such a film be? Instead, read the reviews (and in this case even spoilers don't actually spoil anything), grab your friends and prepare to laugh like a loon!

In short, I'll give this film 1 star, but it deserves 10 for pure comic value.

Several years ago, I saw a movie called 'Komodo'. Since that time, 'komodo' has been a movie experience I have never forgotten. It was far and away the WORST cinema ever filmed and I felt that I had truly witnessed the pinnacle of human creativity and artistic expression.

Today I saw a movie called 'Shark Attack 3' and everything I had come to believe was shattered. THIS is truly the pinnacle of human existence.

Watch this movie, but beware, all you have come to take for granted, all you have ever believed in, all you have ever loved and cared for will lose all meaning. 'Shark Attack 3' will blow your mind and you will never be the same again!

It almost pains me to give this movie such a low rating, but it would be criminal to score it any higher, it's not that it isn't watchable, because it is I guess. I've watched it with with friends, and we all laughed the whole way through, the acting is absolutely shocking, I think you can tell the cast are having fun and loving hamming it up, I like John Barrowman very much, but even he is shocking, some of the lines are dire. I'm sure the shark was glad to be blown up at the end, was it me or was the Shark growling?

Shark Attack 3 is to Jaws what Scary movie was to Scream, a harmless spoof.

1/10.

Ah, this is a fun one to watch. I'm sure the makers of this film were fully aware of what they were making, but I can say without a doubt I enjoyed this more than Jaws 2, 3 or The Revenge. It's full of action, gore, nudity, stupidity, pearl white teeth, stock footage, one-liners, dubbing, crap effects and is never boring for a minute. It's like the film makers were channelling Bruno Mattei - it's that good! However, if you're one of them 'serious' film fans you might want to steer clear. I don't have a brain, and therefore was mightily impressed by this bundle of nonsense. For some reason, the shark makes noises like a guy in a porn movie.

I can clearly see that there are a great many other reviews for this flick and that the general tide of opinion has approached the material in the correct way……simply put, this my friends is a veritable trash movie classic!

Highlights? Too many to mention but for starters just check out the hilarious usage of mismatched stock footage; enough in fact to make even the likes of the mighty Bruno Mattei envious! Also the bizarre 'tummy rumbling' sound the baby megalodon emits(!), some mightily ropey acting displays (including the main actors clearly and unsuccessfully trying to stifle laughter during supposedly perilous situations!) and finally and best of all, the giant megalodon attacks……

Words simply cannot express how hilariously they have been rendered! Simply, the makers have taken stock footage of Great White sharks and via (shoddy!) digital technology, 'shrunk' the victims/boats/dingys etc so that the stock shark appears to be swallowing them(!!!)

The end result looks utterly ridiculous and reduced me to fits of laughter.

A pre Dr Who/Torchwood John Barrowman appears here as the highly likable hero and utters THE line…..ahem.

Best scene of all? Well put it this way and trust me on this, you really have not lived until you have seen a man jet ski right into a sharks mouth!!!

What more can be said? An hilariously daft film and essential viewing for fellow bad film enthusiasts!

I haven't seen either of the first two Shark Attack movies; nevertheless, I'm willing to bet that this is the one that the series is going to be remembered for. This is a bona fide trash classic with umpteen moments of laugh out loud hilarity. Don't compare this to Jaws. Despite containing many scenes that rip-off the 70's big fish classic, it's far better to lower your expectations and treat this as a comedy classic.

The story involves a giant megalodon shark that is picking off people off the coast of Mexico. In the time-honoured tradition, a life-guard hunts it while the authorities pretend it doesn't exist.

No cliché remains unexplored. But, to be fair, Shark Attack 3 does introduce one original element to it's schema that takes film-making technique forward. The highly innovative concept that this movie introduces is – death by stock footage. Yes, in Shark Attack 3 people are actually killed by stock footage. How did the filmmakers achieve such a seemingly impossible objective I hear you ask? Well, I won't spoil it for first time viewers but you'll see. You'll see.

A number of other people have pointed out the appearance of 'the line'. And quite rightly so. For the uninitiated, 'the line' is a pickup line uttered by John Barrowman to the leading lady in the latter half of the movie. It is both hilarious and appalling. If you are unaware of it, I won't spoil it but you will know it as soon as it is uttered.

The film also has the distinction of being really badly dubbed from English TO English! Never have I seen this before. It has to be some sort of achievement to dub a film in the SAME LANGUAGE but for the voices to have all the authenticity of a character from a spaghetti western or a Mexican wrestling film.

Please don't let any of the above put you off. All of it is intended to encourage you to seek this out. This is trash cinema at its finest. It's an unforgettable modern suck-fest masterwork.

What has this film taught me? It's taught me that if you choose to swim in shark infested waters, it's just possible that you might be attacked and eaten by stock footage.

If you enjoy B-movies, this is one for you, plenty of nudity, a Tom Cruise look-a-like and even more stock shark footage. If that's not enough, the lead lady was actually in the first Shark Attack movie as a different character. This one makes me want to see the other two with my friends and laugh until I get sick. You really can appreciate a movie like this if you were an avid MST3K watcher. Oh yeah, contains the CORNIEST LINE EVER! You will not miss it, trust me.

This film is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! I haven't laughed so much in ages!

Is it just me.... or do the two main actors have massive teeth? I'm thinking the tooth found in the underwater cable belongs to one of them , Lord knows they have enough to spare!!!

The acting in this mess of a movie is so appalling; I kept expecting there to be a lot more gratuitous nudity and sex scenes, although I've seen pornography with more talent in it.

And what's with the grunting and groaning from the shark? Maybe it read the script and was trying to communicate with it's agent! I'd sue!

Meanwhile, if this is the 3rd in the series, I don't think I want to see the other 2 .... it would be very hard to match the standard of this film.

I'm going to pop down to the DVD store and ask for my 90 minutes and $1.95 back ... I'm not even going to illegally burn this one.... not that I do that sort of thing....

I didn't think much of the first two movies either, however whatever low points the previous movies did, they are next to nothing compared to this. Shark Attack 3 is to me an example of a jaw-droppingly bad movie, yet there is some novelty value in how unintentionally hilarious a lot of it is.

Firstly, Shark Attack 3 looks cheap. The setting looks nice, but because the editing is so haphazard and the camera angles as odd as they are you can't appreciate it. The stock footage looks rushed constantly with a shark that is as menacing as a rubber fish.

Sound quality especially in the attacks and the stock footage is muffled, and the attacks look clumsily staged and have no build up to them. The music is at best forgettable too, and the direction is one of the most incompetent directing jobs I've seen recently.

The script is really quite awful with some of the most inane bits of dialogue you'll ever. There is one line in particular that is very badly written and delivered, and whether it was supposed to be like that or not, you cannot help cracking up.

The storyline is hopelessly contrived, with the sex scenes unnecessary and slowing it down. The ending while extremely unrealistic is the only real scene that actually tries to have some suspense and thrills and coming close to succeeding.

As for the characters, I didn't care for them at all, none of them. All of them were stock and clichéd and were either underdeveloped or annoying. Some of the victims are so bad you wish the shark would get them, the villain especially despite his being one of the film's most clumsiest moments. The acting is horrendous, John Barrowman is a likable actor but his dialogue is stilted and cheesy and you can tell he is trying to keep a straight face but to no avail.

Overall, truly bad but has novelty value. 1/10 Bethany Cox

When an unusual Shark tooth is found off the Mexican Coast, 2 researchers band together with a. . . lifeguard?; to rid the world of the gigantic menace it belongs to.

This is the kind of B-Grade Horror you have to laugh at. With lines like the one quoted above, and acting that will make you clench your teeth; you just know you're in for a night of hilarious pain. Kind of like when you hit your funny bone.

After my wife & I first watched it we turned to each other, at the end of the film, and knew we had to screen it to other people. Thus, 'Megalodon Night' was born. A large group of close friends attended the B-Grade fest and it was one of the funniest experiences I have ever shared with a film.

Direction: 2/10 (David Worth...wait, didn't he do 'Kickboxer'? What happened, dude?) Cinematography: 2/10 (David Worth again. Give him a break, he was tired from directi...never mind) Editing: 2/10 (Kristopher Lease seems like he should stick with TV series) Acting: 2/10 (John Barrowman should get an Oscar for keeping a straight face during those lines) Dialogue: 2/10 (Scott Devine & William Hooke basically ripped this off a book called 'MEG') Sound: 1/10 (These guys definitely didn't put in any overtime. Absolutely awful mix-down) Effects: 3/10 (I'll give the Special Effects team something for effort) Art Direction: 3/10 (At least the rich snobs looked like proper tools. Great job!) Costumes: 4/10 (The tuxedos on those snobs was the icing) Music and/or Score: 3/10 (Ashley Miller's sound couldn't even be heard due to poor effort from the sound department)

Total Score: 24/100

I don't want to spoil what could potentially make you choke as you laugh so I'm not going to mention the Shark looks like they had a budget of $5 for CG. Anyway, if you can bare it, it's a great piece of awfulness. All I can suggest is to do what I did. Make a night of it and just enjoy it for what it is . . . or what it isn't for that matter.

I agree with the previous reviewer who also apparently thought that the characters were often laughing for no apparent reason. In particular, the actress playing "Cat" (Jenny McShane) often seemed to have facial expressions that were inappropriate for what was happening at the time. Watch her during the dinner scene, as well as after she fails in her attempt to rescue the girl whose parachute had been pulled down by the shark. I couldn't tell if she was laughing or crying in that scene!

I've read a little bit about the Megalodon on various websites, and although it was apparently a very large shark, could it really have taken in a small powerboat in one gulp?

An even more ridiculous scene in the movie is when the big, bad corporation is taking people out for a fundraising cruise on a large yacht. When the shark makes its appearance, person after person goes flying off the decks of the boat, even jumping off with and without life preservers, EVEN THOUGH THE BOAT ISN'T SINKING! The shark has tossed it around a bit, but there was no water coming into the boat. Nevertheless, person after person plunges into the water (of course, if they didn't go into the water, they couldn't be eaten by the shark!).

To sum up, bad acting and an implausible storyline get this movie "two thumbs down".

...because no one will ever be able to top Shark Attack 3. If you would have come up to me a few hours ago and told me they made a better movie than Shark Attack 2, I would have spit in your face and called you a filthy liar. But you would've been right and I would have been wrong. Sorry, I should have believed you. Out of all of the new generation of B-Films being made for the straight to video market, Shark Attack 3 towers above them. From the insane dialogue (one line is jaw dropping), the mixture of wooden and overacting, the wonderful stock footage, and the surprise appearance near the end, it just don't get no better than this. Plus, those drunken boaters, the republican/militia guy, the ass man and the not ass man, the evil corporation heads, and of course the amazing lead guy and girl make for a perfect ensemble cast. It's like Short Cuts with sharks. Robert Altman could learn a few things from this movie.

The best horror movie I have seen in ages! When we see the Megalodon for the first time it is the most sublime moment! Never have I seen anything so extraordinary on film! This movie is so, so funny! Just absolutely brilliant b-movie stuff. Nothing in it makes sense. The size of the Megalodons tooth, for example, is quite small although the shark is supposed to be gigantic.

I did watch most of the non-shark scenes in fast motion though. This is a highly recommended viewer technique.

"Shark Attack 3: Megalodon", in my opinion, has to be one of the worst "shark" movies I've ever seen in my life. Every single thing about this movie was so underwhelming, I'm even surprised that they allowed these filmmakers to make it. First of all, it's almost a complete rip-off of "Jaws 3". Saying that is being extremely generous. I mean, in "Jaws 3", the baby shark subsequently dies in a pool at an underwater aquarium, and then its mother comes in and begins to wreak havoc on the town. And that's almost very similar to what happens in "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon". A baby shark comes in and begins to wreak havoc on a small town, and after it's killed, then ITS mother comes and begins to wreak even more havoc.

Here are my "Top 5" reasons why "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon" is so bad and should not be worth viewing.

1) The actors. The only actor in this entire movie that actually gives a decent performance is the one and only John Barrowman. All of the other actors are completely worthless. Sometimes, you can't even hear what they're saying, and most times, they can't even talk in nice and complete sentences. It would literally take them 2 seconds to say 5 words and then another 4 or 5 seconds to finish what they're saying.

2) The plot. Hello? How many times have we seen this type of movie before? "A police chief must stop a shark from wreaking havoc on a small town." Don't get me wrong. This was also the very same plot for "Jaws" that was made all the way back in the year of freakin' 1975.

3) The special effects. Nearly 50 percent of this movie is stock-footage and not special effects. They also used stock-footage in "Jaws" during the scene where Hooper is in the cage and being attacked by the shark. I mean, it's okay if you use it for just one scene, not almost every freakin' scene as in this movie. Well, believe it, the size of the shark constantly changes throughout the movie and hell, even the scene where it eats the swordfish, you can easily tell that it's stock-footage. Even when we do see the shark, it roars like a freakin' dinosaur. Now, let me give a little word of advice to the filmmakers who made this: SHARKS DO NOT AND CAN NOT ROAR!!!

4) The action. Okay, so a lot of people do get eaten and killed by the sharks (the baby and its mother) in this movie. But, at most times, it becomes absolutely ridiculous how these people get eaten by the shark. The mother shark, in particular, seems to have a jaw the size of a freakin' mall. Don't believe me? Then watch the part where the mother shark attacks the big yacht at the end. Yep, she's able to swallow people falling in mid-air, able to consume a whole raft with people in it, and gobble up a man who's driving a speedboat. COME ON!!!

5) The filmmakers. Personally, I don't think anybody who did this movie had a clue of what they were doing exactly. These are the kinds of movies that were probably very easy to make. Stealing material from other old "shark running amok" movies, adding new characters, re-writing the same exact plot and calling it a horror film. You know what, it's starting to get old. The director, I guess, just didn't care about the actors in this movie. He just let them say their lines the way they did and decided to cast them in this film. Hell, even the writers should have done a better job with the script.

So, these are my 5 reasons why "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon", in my opinion, is one of the worst "shark" movies I've ever seen in my life. Please do yourself a favor and DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! Trust me, this is absolute poor cinema at its finest. Hell, I'm even amazed that it wasn't nominated for any Razzie Awards. I think it most certainly should have.

From here on, I can only pray that they're not going to make a "Shark Attack 4".