Space Sharks

Granted, when I sat down to watch the 2024 movie "Space Sharks" I harbored zero expectations to the movie. Why? Well, first of all, the movie's title was sufficient in itself. And the fact that the only familiar name on the cast list was Eric Roberts just didn't elevate any hopes for the movie. But I am a sucker for shark movies, and of course I would give writer and director Dustin Ferguson's 2024 movie a fair chance on the off-chance that it might actually be a worthwhile movie.

The narrative in the movie is near non-existing. You mostly just watch random people mill about with their daily lives and chores, to the way-too-high sounds of 1980s synth music. Yeah, it wasn't really particularly entertaining to say the least. And the writer copies heavily from the 1987 movie "Predator" as well, to the point where it was embarrassing to witness.

And the dialogue in the movie was terrible. It was as if it was written by either AI or some pre-school student with dreams of being a script writer.

The acting performances in "Space Sharks" was sluggish and laughable. It felt like the majority of the actors and actresses didn't buy into this movie themselves, and they were just there to collect an easy pay cheque. And even Eric Roberts looked and felt like his mind was far away on some remote tropical beach while his body was on the set of "Space Sharks". Aside from Eric Roberts, then I was only familiar with actress Brinke Stevens. Yeah, I've seen enough low budget and dubious movies to recognize her, I admit that.

The movie's dialogue track is very low, and you need to crank up the volume to hear the dialogue properly. But there is a problem, because the movie's annoying 1980s synth score is way higher than the dialogue, so you have two very different scales of volume going on.

I am beyond amazed how a movie that is made in 2024 can have CGI effects that look like something from a game from the early 2000s. The CGI animation scene with the corridors after the intro sequence was just insanely cringeworthy to look at. The graphics were just so horribly outdated.

And you have to suffer through about 39 minutes of the movie before you get to see the God-awful sharks themselves. And 39 minutes was well over half of the movie, as it runs at a staggering 70 minutes of pure pointless boredom.

While the movie is terrible and abysmal, it wasn't even on the scale where it was fun to watch. Nay, "Space Sharks" is just straight up a terrible and ridiculous movie, that is not worth your time, money or effort. Some of us suffered through this dumpster fire of a movie, so you don't have to; you're quite welcome.

My rating of "Space Sharks" lands on an undisputed one out of ten stars.

Dont watch it. Thats all.

I absolutely love everything science fiction. Movies like this, I dont even read the reviews... I look at the title..look at the cover art.. get excited this may be that gem waiting for me to find, press play and hope for the best... Honestly the first few minutes I knew that the cover art was as good as it was going to get!!!

Its not even funny bad. Its just bad. In every way possible. Its without a doubt the most incompetent, with unbelievable ineptitude seeping from its every orifice worst thing I have ever seen... and I have seen it all.

Its not fun like sharknado can be at times... this is cringe level 1000 and beyond.

I know that Roberts is a Z actor at best these days, but god damb if he didnt find a new low with this one!!!

The special effects in were atrocious, given the fact that this movie is made in 2024. It looked like a video game from -94... and the rest was filmed in the woods... CHEAP!!

I could go on but you get the point.

My wife said "Eric Roberts.must have owed someone a favour."

Julia please give your brudda some $ this is unbearable.

It hurts too watch but it made me laugh and cry. There is no $&@&$$ way my wife and I could make it through the entire film.

I just wanted to see a space shark :(

Looking at wife's face while we watch this was priceless.

She hates me now and wants a divorce.

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Eric Roberts y.

I wasn't expecting much when I started to watch this.

Plagiarizing some shots or ideas from Alien, Predator without any originality, it makes some sequences 'funny' when you realise how stupid this is.

Luckily, it was short enough to not become a snooze fest. After a 10 minutes intro on space visuals, who by the way looks worse than what was done for Alien in 1979, you will jump into a CGI travelling that seems to be extracted from the alpha version of Doom 3 (the video game, from 2004).

The acting goes from 'high school production' to 'bad' all along.

I don't blame them though, it's a director job to lead is actors.

All the 'monsters' and the blood splash visuals effects could have been rendered on a arthritic Xbox 360.

But the thing I will remember for a long time, it's all the shots of people who are just.. walking or running from the foreground to the background and vice versa.

The only conclusion I can draw from this incomprehensible waste of effort is that Eric Roberts owes somebody and is repaying the favor with his participation in this movie. This isn't like one of those Bruce Willis Post Dimentia movies, It is far worse. Although the movie tries to have a plot, the actors and dialog don't even compare to a kindergarten play. Accommodation of the fully drawn special effects on human acting Are a travesty of the film industry. Clearly someone wanted to make a movie with an iphone and just decided one day to rough sketch a story about Mutant sharks in space and fill it with marginal actors and idiotic dialog Imdb needs to provide for a negative scale rating on movies because this would be negative 1 billion. I am thoroughly appalled that this movie, but what really gets me are the Fake ratings.