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Sorry to say but it's just not worth your time! Bad acting, I thought I was looking at a comedy!

Right away I knew that when you cast, Nigel Barber (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!) into any movie, you are shooting for another campy movie success. What SyFy does lately is push out this camp more than ever. What SyFy failed to remember is what really made "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)" successful... Elvia (Cassandra Peterson) who hosted the movie on her late night TV show back in the day.

No one is going to sit and yuck it up at those movies without some late night horror host rifting on it. We watched the campy movies because of Elvira's "Movie Macabre", Joel Hodgson's "Mystery Science Theater 3000", Count Gore de Vol, or Karlos Borloff. This made the campy horror sci-fi movie watchable.

SyFy needs STOP cranking out the camp. They use to have a lot better programming on in the late 1990s. Remember series like Farscape, The Invisible Man, Battlestar Galactica, Good vs. Evil, and Eureka? Their movies were also about space and fantasy. Every now and then SyFy network CEO comes along with a new bright idea and we get only the one flavor. The network has these bad phases. Let's do nothing but ghost busting reality TV! Oh great idea...

This movie is the product of a company who thinks, if one campy shark movie is deemed a success, more will be a gold rush.

Worst movie I have seen.... Omg porn movies have better acting and story line. Don't waste your time with this or you will be wishing you had those minutes back in your life. Poor graphics, acting, story line...what more can I add... Nothing that's the whole movie.

1 scene where the military enters the mall to shoot roboshark they ALL stop and the store locator at the center of the mall like they are searching for some special store.... Let's see there is a metal shark swimming around the mall, maybe they should go where the people are fleeing from.

You could use this movie as a teaching tool on what not to do....

A metallic sphere from space is swallowed by a shark, which then turns into evil Roboshark & proceeds to wreck havoc on Seattle. Everything about this dross is bad. Perhaps the only thing that I liked was a co ordinate given as THX1138, an obvious nod to the sci fi film from the 1970's. This movie is very tongue in cheek, with one character saying events are "starting to look like one of those Sci Fi movies". Only this is probably the worst of the lot. And thats saying something! In an early scene a mother asks her husband, referring to her daughter & her mobile phone, " why does she waste her time watching this nonsense?". Why indeed am I watching this nonsense!!?? Don't make the same mistake.

Roboshark (2015)

* (out of 4)

A UFO drops an object into the ocean, which is eaten by a great white shark. Soon the shark turns into the title creature and goes on a killing spree in Seattle, Washington.

ROBOSHARK thinks it's a lot better than the countless other killer/mutant shark movies that have been shown on SyFy or gone straight to the Redbox. This one here likes to think its in on the joke and the dialogue here has a lot of so-called wit throwing jokes at SyFy and other shark movies. The problem is that this film is just downright annoying from start to finish and it doesn't contain a single spark of energy.

There are a lot of issues with this film but we can start with the main story, which has a reporter, her cameraman and her daughter running around constantly trying to get the scoop on the shark. This here leads to a social media storm and several fights with another reporter trying to get the same stuff. All of this was rather annoying and it certainly didn't make you want to like the characters. This is meant for some tongue in cheek action so I won't bash the film for not being scary or anything like that.

The performances, for the most part, are decent enough but we're really not here for that, are we? The death scenes are all bland and bloodless and I'd argue that the CGI shark looks okay considering what this movie is. Still, ROBOSHARK is just a flat out boring movie that can be skipped.

An absolute load of rubbish. My son's daycare has better actors.

The good news is that of the SyFy shark movies, Roboshark is one of the better ones, and among the more tolerable SyFy outings. The not so good news is that that doesn't stop Roboshark from not being particularly good or great.

Roboshark is one of SyFy's least amateurish-looking movies, with nice scenery, slicker-than-usual photography and a design for the Roboshark that has some menace and is one of SyFy's cooler- and- less-cheap- looking. The Roboshark is also well-utilised and unlike a lot of SyFy creatures has a personality, a threatening one rather than being too goofy that it brings unintentional humour. The movie clearly knows what it's trying to be and which audience it's aiming for, and in the process doesn't try to do too much while not playing it too safe either, and contains some clever inside jokes and hilarious one-liners. There are also fun performances from Laura Dale and particularly Nigel Barber, the only ones in the cast who show that they can still have fun without overacting, as well as some spirited and confident direction.

On the other hand, the rest of the cast wildly overact and in the case of the extras and Matt Rippy to an embarrassing degree, something that really hurts the tension. The characters are barely developed and some are annoying, which makes them difficult to root for, the movie drags a little in the exposition moments and some of the more dramatic parts veer on turgid and ham-fisted. The story is well-intentioned and clearly knows what its aim and audience is, but the silliness gets very over-the-top sometimes that it gets ridiculous (like with the bacon) which gets in the way of generating suspense or tension, and it gets tiring towards the end. Aside from a catchy opening, the movie is generically scored too with not an awful lot standing out as memorable, and while the opening is fun and quite scary the climax of the movie is predictable and rushed..

All in all, not great but one of the better and more tolerable SyFy shark movies. A decent guilty pleasure-type movie if you will. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I would feel genuinely sorry for the people involved in the making of this film if I didn't feel so much contempt for it's existence.

Naturally the title of this movie indicates exactly what you will be in for; another one of those low budget and very off key Sci-Fi movies that just raises so many questions. The main question is why did this even get turned into an actual movie.

The storyline is about a shark that bites into an UFO vessel, and it is transformed into a robotic killer shark. Unstoppable both physically and in its hunger, Roboshark goes on a killing frenzy which makes both land and waters unsafe.

Right, well there was no plausible direction to the storyline, especially given the circumstances of how ludicrous it was. But still, it is one of those bad Sci-Fi movies that you just have to watch because it is so bad.

The effects in "Roboshark" were hilarious. And by hilarious I mean that they were so poor and bad that it was actually fun to witness. And it still amazes me that it is possible to make movies now a days with effects so poor.

As for the acting in the movie, well it was pretty much as to be expected. It is one of those questionable Sci-Fi movies after all, so you know what you are in for prior to sitting down and watching "Roboshark".

While there are a heap of movies like this, and some are actually enjoyable because they are so campy and cheesy, then "Roboshark" didn't fall into that category. "Roboshark" wasn't really worth spending an hour and thirty minutes on.

My final rating for "Roboshark" sinks to a mere two out of ten stars. If you enjoy these types of campy monster flicks, low budget Sci-Fi movies, then there are far better choices out there.

This is genuinely one of the best films I have ever watched. It has superb acting and the effects are another level. You would think the movie was made in 2050, and the shark looks completely real. I do not use this phrase often but this film was robbed of an Oscar. It truly is a masterpiece.

I understand actors need to earn a living, but their choices of media can sometimes serve to limit their futures. The actors appearing in this not even laughably bad video, in the words of the last Crusader, have all "chosen poorly." This is pure dreck, with only porky performances, poor effects and a tired story line ("we're gonna need a bigger bang"). This work can only be a financial play for some well-heeled backer wanting a tax break, but for all associated it is an utter embarrassment. So many of these direct to TV (not even video) movies keep appearing that makes one wonder if they're on to something, and this can provide an outlet for the welter of talent that's out there. It offends the audience, however, to squander the available talent and take so many struggling actors for granted by barely even pretending to turn in something better than execrable. Don't waste your time on this total disaster.

Wow this is one of the worst movies I've ever 'started' to watch! Couldn't get past the first 30 minutes. I thought Highlander 2 was bad but this movie tops it for bad/cheesy/corny acting, plot, and effects.

Very bad actors, as if no one in this has any experience at all. Very bad "jokes". They seem like they are supposed to be jokes but they are not funny. Very bad editing and lots of obvious mistakes. One guy tells a group in his office to take care of something. A few seconds later, he calls that same group and tells them to do the same thing again. Lots of lame dialog and bad references to other movies. Of the entire movie, there was really only one moment that I thought was even a little bit funny - and that was the way they did the effect on the strings of a guy's hoodie. Very bad special effects. I've seen many movies from the 1950's and 1960's with much better effects.

This film makes a mockery of spoofs as we know them. The acting was so poor. The idea, the concept would make a great thriller if it was done on a decent budget with a star cast I mean an alien shark hybrid terrorising California or the east coast, has prospects. However this movie.......Wash out!!!!!

Dear IMDb, I saw this movie. I was told this was a comedy through the voices of actors playing the roles of characters, is that breaking the fourth wall? Yeah, it was not a comedy, by the way. Why does stuff happen? Is there some deeper mechanism behind our day to day decisions or is there no such thing as conscious thought? This movie is about a city where some people live, but when the Roboshark shows up, less and less people live in the city until the movie's end. People will do that. Uh, this movie Okay, what do you want to know? Do you want to know some trivia? Do you want to know who is in this movie? Do you want to know my opinion or are you just being polite?

I mean reallyy, its 2015 movie, what the heck 🤣. The animation really old like this movie was mad in 1990's .

One can make a better story and performances with a toy shark in a baby pool.

Navy Admiral in the movie is a psychopath who wants to bomb a school.

Male lead actor seems partly insane in his real life too. He is better off in his toilet than to have dialogues.

Female lead actor needs acting classes at primary school.

Competitor reporter Veronica gets crushed by the Seattle tower and her co workers watch with their hands in pocket how she dies.

The Girl named melody talks to the shark using emojis from her phone and the shark replies too.

Bill Gates the software tycoon in this movie is playing with a toy drone to lure the shark and gets eaten. His staff watch from the side as if he has gone for a swim in a pool.

Director of the movie has to be an alien himself.

I wonder if authorities in the movie are planning to use nuclear bomb on a wild insane shark on a loose, what weapon they would use for situations like Covid!!

From the thundering opening scenes to the shattering climax staged incredibly on the Space Needle, this will grab you and not let go. Brilliantly clever and delightfully self-aware SyFy production that is nothing less than breathlessly exciting and uproariously funny. The hilarity is as non-stop as the thrills when a shark bites into an alien entity and becomes the expression the alien itself. Taking on the essential being of the alien, roboshark emerges and threatens to destroy Seattle. A superb script and inspired direction makes this one of the SyFy channel's most spectacular "creature features." Surprises abound and none will be spoiled here (but a fabulous performance by Steve Sires as a famous personality is utterly stunning.) Nigel Barber will have audiences on the floor in the role of The Admiral. The special effects are the usual SyFy brand of awful but are absolutely perfect for this particular exercise in satire and offbeat humor. It's hard to believe that Sharknado achieved cult status when something this wonderful seems to have been missed! Do not miss the ending sequence on the Space Needle itself!

This movie is just so bad, on so many levels. It's not even so stupid, that it's funny. The only appealing thing about it is the destruction and dismemberment caused by the shark, hence the 2 star rating.