Blood in the Water

That's an insult to both "Saw" and "Jaws". To be honest it's an insult to "Jaws the revenge" and that's a difficult movie to insult.

First scene a guy tries to cut through a metal shackle with prunning shears. So you already know this is going down hill quickly.

Bad acting, terrible script, horrendous direction and if this movie had an editor it was only in name as they clearly didn't actually do any work.

Dismissed.

If I had to rate each category, it would go like this:

Acting: 7 Color: 1 Special Effects: 0 Plot Twists: 0 Scenery: 1 (the whole movie is a pool) Story Line: 5 (it's been done so many times before)

After awakening from being abducted, a woman joins others in a special pool where they're forced to reveal secrets they all hold which binds them together that ends up requiring them to be fed to a killer shark if they fail the game, requiring them to work together to find out how to get away.

Overall, this was a rather interesting if flawed genre effort. Among the more enjoyable features here is the film's initial concept of integrating sharks into a highly unusual setup. The melding together of the genres by forcing a group of strangers chained together in one location who are forced to recall details of a crime that tied them together with the shark showing up to kill them off adds a rather dynamic flair to be had here. This is all given a bit more seriousness than it really needs with the clandestine abductions showing off the purposes of the group being targeted and how it all ties together which at the least is interesting. That gives the film a decent setup to hang incredibly cheesy genre attacks on. The premise of this one allows for the rather goofy nature of the struggling victim being overwhelmed and dragged underwater in a swarm of activity that is far more effective than it should be given the use of the prosthetic shark head for the attacks. Their infrequent placement comes off quite nicely to help pump up the running time outside of the arguments that emerge even though that highlights the utterly unimpressive shark prop that gives itself away every chance it can which isn't too big of a deal but is all that holds this one up. There are some big flaws here that hold this one down. The main issue here is the utterly unbelievable and unrealistic scenario which strains credibility to the point of agony. The whole idea of managing to capture a Great White Shark and sneak it into an indoor swimming pool that would exist in a random backyard strains incredulity to a breaking point rarely seen in the genre as this premise is so hard to logically work out and believe that the film is nearly doomed from the start. The pacing is way too uneven with too many scenes of them arguing with each other in between the shark attacks that become dull after a while, and alongside the general cheapness of everything leaves this one a highly underwhelming feature.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

Really bad torture/captive Saw type movie cept its in a pool that has a shark that swims around in it. Pretty stupid. Bad dialogue. Really not a lot to offer.

And IMDB has now made it so a review has to have 600 characters before it can be entered. I really don't expect that to last very long because people are sure to complain about it. But until that happens I guess we have to expect reviews to be long winded and sometimes about absolutely nothing to do with the show in question.

I think this might have been yet another Gravitas Ventures movie made for IFC but I could be wrong. Definitely no more than a 2/10.

This is the movie Saw meets the movie Jaws, which I do not understand how that would work. But this movie was made, and I do not know why.

The acting is terrible, and the characters are awful. I did not care about what would happen to them and if they will live or not, especially when they are hard to watch.

You barely see the shark and it does not look that great. The whole movie was hard to wat, as in I could not see anything because the movie had bad camera shots, and a tint to the camera that makes it look they turned up the brightness all the way.

When it comes to them being attacked by the shark it turns off the lights and keeps this red light on making it hard to see what is happening. The flashbacks to the characters are filled with slow motion and are drawn out longer than it should be.

Jaws (1975) is a great movie and Blood in the Water (2022) plays out exactly how the movie Saw (2004) plays out. Blood in the Water (2022) has a bad ending that does not make sense and I could not believe that it chose to end in such an anticlimactic way.

Do not watch this movie at all. Go watch Jaws (1975) or Saw (2004) they are both good separately, but not good together.