Raging Sharks

In just about every way that you can think of, RAGING SHARKS utterly fails. I'll start by listing all the positive stuff I can think of. For a quickie shot in eastern Europe, the sets they build for the underwater laboratory and the nuclear sub weren't bad. And I did get a good laugh when one character in the sub says "Captain, we have a problem" in a passive voice while the sub he's in is blowing up. And that's all I can think of that was positive about my experience watching this loser. The shark attacks aren't very bloody and are filmed in a way that's hard to make out what's happening (probably to mask that the shark they use is made of rubber.) The movie is filled with stock footage, and the plot eventually comes to a crawl, with a lot of the movie still left to run. Incredibly, the last third of the movie, despite the title, is pretty much shark free! To top things off, the movie ends with a deus ex machina resolution that will leave you feeling cheated, even though the device used was introduced in the (pretty incomprehensible) beginning of the movie. If you get your hands on a copy, send it down to Davy Jones' locker!

There is so much wrong here.... they are on the ocean floor, deep enough for a submarine to try and rescue them, yet SCUBA diving in that depth is perfectly fine... no worries about the bone crushing pressure from the atmosphere. Also, the shark scenes are awesomely cheesey because you can see they are just below the surface. I rate this on a "oh, come on" scale of 15 out of 10. Want a stupid movie to watch when Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is not available? This is your show.

When the crew of an underwater lab discovers an unearthly sunken object that is mysteriously attracting hundreds of sharks, they become a security risk and a target.

I do not think this film deserves a real review. It is another shark film, plain and simple, and not a good one. From executive producer Avi Lerner, who also brought us "Kraken", there seems to be the idea that throwing in a big squid or shark is all it takes to keep an audience watching.

The shark subgenre has been done to death. It started off strong with the classic "Jaws", but has gone downhill ever since. The Jaws sequels are decent for what they are, and other shark series are okay. Now we have more than a handful of megalodon films, films that have sharks fighting octopi, a film with a shark crossed with an octopus ("Sharktopus")... By comparison, "Raging Sharks" is bland and just one more on the heap. You can make a hundred slashers, each unique, but there are only so many ways to have a shark attack and it has been milked to death.

I am not going to lie... I spent more time listening to this film than watching it. I just could find nothing to hold my interest in it. Nothing. I am sure those involved with the production put their best effort in, but starting with a lackluster concept can only get you so many good results.

The cover of the film proudly announces that Corin Nemec is in it. And that is true. But if your first reaction is wondering who Nemec is, you are not alone. It is bad enough trying to carry a film with pop star Tiffany or Lorenzo Lamas, but if your star is Corin Nemec, why even hire actors we have vaguely known at all? Do not watch this film, please. I own it ass a part of Echo Bridge's Horror Four Pack. I have now watched half of the films, and they are both garbage. The next two are about werewolves... I want to believe they cannot possibly be worse.

OK, don't get me wrong here, this is an awful movie. Awful story. Awful acting. Yet AWFULLY entertaining! Yeah? See what I did there?

It's aliens, sharks, a thermos full of orange goo and Parker Lewis. How can you lose on this one?

I don't know what it was about this movie, but, for as awful as it was, it was strangely entertaining. It made zero sense, but was fun to watch. Think SciFi Channel on a Saturday afternoon. It's that kind of entertaining. Keep in mind before watching it though, that it's going to suck. If you can shut your brain off for a minute and enjoy the (repeating) bits of stock footage, you might just get a few (unintentional) laughs out of it.

Geez! Unfortunately, I didn't connect to the IMDb to check on this before we went to the video store, these sharks (and their lousy producers and cast) chew away $4.00 from me. As it happens very often in a bad movie case, I found myself making fun of the movie and wondering how in the world there are not authorities to prevent these disasters from even getting to innocent hands like ours. My poor daughter was hoping for a "Deep Blue Sea", and she got the "Deep Goo Sh**".

The people commenting here about this movie are so right about the spoofs they found out, that I wont repeat them. But it chocked me mysteriously that when the female star decided to go "to help" the poor people that were actually being eaten by the sharks outside, the producer magically omitted the at least half and hour or more that takes to change into a diving suit. Who she thought she was? Superman, that changes inside a phone booth in an instant??? Oh wait...there are no phone booths undersea!...Oh well.

If you are in a bank account suicidal drill or just love Animal Planet (and I'm not referring only to the sharks), don't let us commenters stop you...go ahead and rent it... Don't say we didn't warn you.