Ice Sharks: Requins des glaces

I really appreciate the limited time I now spend with my 12 yr old son as he now prefers to play xbox so movie night is precious time. However, I wish for this movie he stayed playing online as film is horrific. Was this a media college project or something? Have you noticed that the shark teleported one of the people into its mouth because the CGI is bad. Acting is woeful at best however the constant close ups of the ski mobiles are out of this world. Just skip

Hunters disappear in the Canadian Arctic area near the open water. A bunch of pretty mean sharks is to blame for that. A research station sinks 80 ft below the surface when the ice breaks, and while their oxygen is running low, David (Edward DeRuiter), Tracy (Jenna Parker), Michael (Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau who looks like a surfer from Hawaii because he is a surfer from Hawaii) and Alex (Clarissa Thibeaux) are looking for a way to escape. Many sharks, no weapons, and then the extreme cold...

If you are willing to ignore the abysmal special effects, you get a decent thriller about a rescue mission. What is the last place where you'd want to be when sharks are in the water? Yes, locked in under water with them, and this movie manages to keep up the tension, the script is better than others of the genre (although I still wonder why the scientists tell the rescue experts how to do their job), and the acting isn't too awful, either. It obviously is a C movie version of 'Deep Blue Sea', but it is watchable.

The storyline had 0 potential as I predicted from start to finish and who survives

It wouldn't have been that bad if the storyline actually made more sense as most problems had simple obvious solutions. Yet the script was written so that all the characters literally shared only ONE brain cell between them.

Only gave more stars for the blonde guy and the black woman as their acting was spot on and not cringe at all.

The storyline and graphics get 0 stars

Recommend a watch I suppose

Ice Sharks (2016)

** (out of 4)

The setting is an Arctic research center where a group of scientists are trying to determine why the ice is thinning so quickly. Unfortuantly for them it's not due to global warming and instead it's a new kind of shark that is able to break through the ice and attack.

ICE SHARKS is pretty much the type of "C" non-sense that you'd expect from a film that aired on SyFy. thankfully the film is well-made enough to where the viewer can stay entertained even though there's no question that the story is quite silly and there are countless logical issues including the fact that they're in the Arctic yet you can never see anyone's breathe. With that said, if you enjoy watching these movies then this one here will keep you entertained.

If you're familiar with the type of movies SyFy makes then you should already know that you don't go in expecting some sort of art. In reality you just hope for some mindless entertainment and on that level ICE SHARKS delivers. I thought the scenes of the sharks breaking through the ice were fun and for the most part the characters were entertaining enough to keep you interested in their fate. As I said, I thought the film was well-made for the most part and director Emile Edwin Smith at least keeps the action moving and there really aren't any slow spots in the picture.

The CGI is pretty laughable as you'd expect but it's still much better than what you normally see. ICE SHARKS certainly isn't a masterpiece but it succeeds at what it set out to do.

Right, well let's just be honest and agree to the fact that right from the very beginning then "Ice Sharks" doesn't really have the odds stacked to its favor, now does it? I mean, this is after all another shark movie set in an environment that normally does not encourage shark activity as such.

But hey, shark movies do come in an abundance especially in strange environments. There are "Swamp Sharks", "Sand Sharks", "Avalanche Sharks", "Atomic Sharks", and the list goes on and one.

So why do we watch these movies when they have the odds stacked against them? Well, personally I do enjoy the campy and cheesy movies like this. They usually turn out to be hilarious, just as they turn out to have more than questionable special effects.

And "Ice Sharks" is no different.

The story here is about a group of researchers or scientists working in the frigid Arctic, when they become prey to a particularly aggressive type of sharks.

The special effects in "Ice Sharks" were adequate, although you should take this with a pinch of salt. You know what you are getting into beforehand sitting down to watch a movie with a title such as "Ice Sharks".

As for the acting, well I will say that people were doing fair enough jobs with their roles, taking into considerations the restrictions and limitations imposed upon them by the script.

For a shark movie, then "Ice Sharks" turned out to be in the lower part of the enjoyment scale. It wasn't a particularly fun or entertaining movie, and there are far better shark movies available.