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La nuit des requins

Original title: La notte degli squali
  • 1988
  • R
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
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La nuit des requins (1988)
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David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico... Read allDavid must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who will get David first, the gangsters or the shark... Read allDavid must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who will get David first, the gangsters or the shark?

  • Director
    • Tonino Ricci
  • Writers
    • Tito Carpi
    • Tonino Ricci
  • Stars
    • Treat Williams
    • Janet Agren
    • Antonio Fargas
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.7/10
    509
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tonino Ricci
    • Writers
      • Tito Carpi
      • Tonino Ricci
    • Stars
      • Treat Williams
      • Janet Agren
      • Antonio Fargas
    • 20User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Treat Williams
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    • David Ziegler
    Janet Agren
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    • Liz Ziegler
    Antonio Fargas
    Antonio Fargas
    • Paco
    Stelio Candelli
      Egidio Termine
      Carlo Mucari
      • James Ziegler
      • (as Charles Mucary)
      Nina Soldano
      • Juanita
      Sal Borgese
      Sal Borgese
      • Garcia
      John Steiner
      John Steiner
      • Rosentski
      Christopher Connelly
      Christopher Connelly
      • Father Mattia
      Ivano Silveri
      Rinaldo Zamperla
      Franco Ukmar
      Ferdinando Tomassini
      • Henchman
      Marjorie Manushaw
      • Lona
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      • Director
        • Tonino Ricci
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        • Tito Carpi
        • Tonino Ricci
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      2Platypuschow

      La notte degli squali: NOT a shark movie

      Night of the Sharks is an odd creature, based on it's name and cover you'd amost think *Drumroll* that it was a shark themed movie right? Wrong.

      Instead we have a generic action film where a shark just happens to pop up a couple of times but is a side character and none of the plot has anything to do with it.

      Starring the underappreciated Treat Williams and Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas this Italian made film has a lousy rating on IMDB and truth be told it doesn't even deserve that.

      With a plodding pace that didn't keep my attention in the slightest Night of the Sharks is neither what its advertised to be nor in this guys opinion anything that resembles entertainment.

      I'm not even addressing the plot in this review as it's so generic it hurts.

      Give this movie seven shades of avoidance.

      The Good:

      Treat Williams & Antonio Fargas

      The Bad:

      The rest of the cast

      No originality

      Boring as hell

      Things I Learnt From This Movie:

      Shark movies don't need to about sharks

      People are willing to gamble losing a hand for $100
      6TheFearmakers

      RIP Treat for Sharks

      Extremely low-budget Italian-import-exploitation involving one of the most familiar plot-lines: a flaky sibling and their inevitable, semi-deserved death from being involved with the seedy crime world to begin with...

      Leading to vengeful, tropical-shark-hunting older brother Treat Williams (with sidekick Antonio Fargas and priest Christopher Connelly), whose balmy paradise gets encroached by killers... either the dorsal-finned kind or those wearing cheap suits, providing danger from the blood-soaked ocean to a machine-gunned jungle...

      Throwback to the previous decade's pulpy third-world body-count action programmers, combined with what, at the time, was technologically modern: the blackmailing brother had damning information not on the usual spy-genre microfilm, but something called a CD...

      Making NIGHT OF THE SHARKS more a would-be thriller than what the adventurous title attempts in a rushed third act, and, with a techno track by iconic composer Stelvio Cipriani under a similar MIAMI VICE-influence of director Tonino Ricci, this SHARK -- on land or sea or foam -- is decent way to either fill or waste ninety-minutes.
      5Hey_Sweden

      Bruce needn't worry about the competition.

      David Ziegler (Treat Williams) is an American beach bum living on the Mexican shore with his buddy and business partner Paco (Antonio Fargas). Unfortunately, a lot of melodrama is about to be dumped in Davids' lap because his brother James (Carlo Mucari) got mixed up with a shady businessman, Rosentski (John Steiner), and figured to get rich by secretly recording the phone calls that Rosentski had made to the President of the U.S.! James mails David a CD he's made of these incriminating phone calls. The bad guys recruit Davids' ex-wife Liz (Janet Agren) to try to persuade David to hand over the CD, holding her debts over her head as a means of motivating her. David must ultimately battle the goons that Rosentski sends after him, and *also* do battle with a local one-eyed great white shark (named "Cyclops" by the natives) which has become a kind of personal nemesis for him.

      Mediocre, fairly dull time waster could possibly have been more entertaining on a "so bad it's good" level, but very crude direction (by Tonino Ricci) and even cruder editing (by Gianfranco Amicucci) prevent the movie from being more fun. That isn't to say that there aren't some very amusing moments here and there, and things do pick up a little during the whole fight / pursuit sequence in the jungle. The music score by Stelvio Cipriani is fun even if it's not one of his best. The use of locations, at the least, is adequate. Williams doesn't look too happy to be here, but Fargas is rather engaging, Swedish beauty Agren offers some appreciable eye candy, and Steiner, the ubiquitous Brit character actor of so many Italian exploitation items, is a passable villain. And as one can see the story is pretty damn silly.

      By the way, unless the word "shark" is used for its multiple meanings, the viewer should be aware that there's actually only one killer fish in this thing.

      Five out of 10.
      3ccatiller12

      Fishing for So-Bad-It's-Good? Fish elsewhere :(

      I wanted this movie to be a "so bad it's good" gem very much. The cover looked like a classic 80s cheese-fest that would fill me with much joy and laughter. The opening scene was promising. However, my initial expectations were eventually butchered and thrown into the water like fish bait.

      The movie gave me little to no reason to invest in the characters. There's almost no backstory for anyone including the lead, David (Treat Williams). What little backstory you get isn't really explored or establishes solid character motivation. Even with the lack of character development, I was at least hoping for some charismatic acting or cheesy dialogue to keep me entertained. Unfortunately, there isn't much of it.

      The soundtrack was laughably terrible. I'm sure they used the same track of suspense music for every "tense" moment in the movie whether it was a gun fight or a shark attack. It is super irritating after having heard it for the 100th time. It will forever be ingrained in my memory.

      I wasn't expecting a stellar plot or anything but it was a complete mess. It's like the writer said, "I want to make Diamonds Are Forever," but the director said, "I want to make Jaws." So they compromised and combined them into one movie.

      As bad as this movie was, there were a few moments that were enjoyable. Almost all of them involved the shark (or sharks? I'm not sure cause they seemed to use footage of multiple species like tigers, lemons, reefs and maybe bull sharks). The attacks were well shot and edited cutting between real and fake sharks. Not saying it was Jaws quality but decent enough for a movie like this.

      In the end, there really isn't enough "so bad it's good" moments in this movie to recommend it. It's really boring for long stretches and the scenes with the shark are too few and far between to justify wasting 86 minutes of your life (it felt way longer than 86 minutes).

      FUN FACT: Did you know tiger sharks can roar? I didn't until I watched this movie. Maybe a "nod" to a worse film, Jaws: The Revenge.
      Wizard-8

      Though it has Treat, it's not a treat

      Just a few years before this movie, it seemed that American actor Treat Williams was becoming a major star. So it's seems puzzling as to what he is doing in a low budget Italian movie. Despite the different environment, Treat does seem to be trying hard, but his valiant efforts aren't enough to save the movie. Though it's only 86 minutes long, it feels much longer, with barely a plot on display and scene after scene passes by where little to nothing actually happens. There also isn't that much action, and the little there is isn't for the most part particularly exciting. The movie does look somewhat better than other Italian B movies made around this time - it's nicely shot (both on land and under water), the scenery looks good, and the remaining production values are somewhat slicker than usual. But as you may know, a good look does little when you are saddled with a sorry script.

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      • Trivia
        Christopher Connelly's final film.
      • Alternate versions
        The Media VHS, along with various public domain DVDs of the film, is missing 8 minutes of footage from the original film. The Japanese VHS and the Italian DVD both have the full 95 minute version.
      • Connections
        References Deux flics à Miami (1984)

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      • Release date
        • April 1, 1988 (Italy)
      • Countries of origin
        • Italy
        • Spain
        • Mexico
      • Language
        • Italian
      • Also known as
        • Night of the Sharks
      • Filming locations
        • Dominican Republic
      • Production companies
        • Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA)
        • Belma Cinematografica
        • Italian International Film
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 30m(90 min)
      • Sound mix
        • Stereo
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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