Les dents de la mort

My partner and i enjoy our regular DVD night's as the video shop we use has the biggest archive of hard to find movie's in Tauranga,but as my missus is usually in a hurry,she just grab's random movie's cause the cover look's good without reading the blurb on the back of the cover,hence we end up viewing the odd abomination such as this film.Some of my mate's came round that fateful night and viewed this jaw's invading the waterway's of a small hick town/criminal's searching for submerged loot sub plot, we could not help but giggle,make snide remark's and pick hole's in the sub porn wooden acting and the 'menacing' bull shark.Lot's of the ridicule was directed at coolio, washed up rapper/actor who seem's to think he's in a L.A gangsta flick and not in a small backwater community being terrorized by a vengeful, rubbery shark.Lou diamond phillip's career has taken a turn for the worst over the year's,yet he was in some fairly good movie's like La bamba,Young guns and The first power(i liked it anyway).Well worth a look to poke fun at but seriously do not see this thinking your gonna get a top notch thriller.

It's a shame that us American seem to be so totally incapable of making low budget horror movies when those all around us - The Japanese and the Brits are miles ahead. The whole film is just so throw away and the special effects are terrible. This is a real old fashioned boring mess...

Then again, I think that just about anything Lou Diamond Phillips does is good. THAT is a true fan, in my opinion. The shark looked very real...even moreso than the one in the "Jaws" movies. Granted, there was a substantial amount of blood and gore, but it was a horror movie so that's to be expected. There still wasn't as much of that in "Red Water" as there was in "Jaws" (any of them). OK, that's all of my "review"...Now I have to ramble to make up the 10 line minimum...lol! As I said before, NOTHING Mr. Phillips does (in my opinion) is bad or something I wouldn't want to watch again, so maybe I'm not really the right person to review any of his movies...lol!

Channel 5 broadcast this immediately after showing the 2010 version of PIRANHA . This is very lazy transmission but you can see the thematic logic of this . What it does mean is that a film like RED WATER comes off second best compared to a in your face comedy horror spoof because this is a very conventional , flat movie featuring a killer shark

RED WATER gets off to a fairly good start . You want to grab an audience's attention? Well what better way to grab every man's attention by having a couple of cuties swimming in a lake wearing very skimpy bikinis . Even better a couple of minutes later the action cuts to a bad guys swimming pool where some really hot women walk around in bikinis . The board on this page has a few comments noticing this somewhat cynical crowd pleasing scene and all state this is in fact the best part of the film . You got hot chicks in bikinis and it's the best part of the film ? Yes it says a lot about the movie you're watching

No matter how many hot chicks you can cram in to a movie you'd better have a story to go with it and how many great films have you seen featuring sharks that weren't directed by Steven Spielberg ? You'd also do well to remember RED WATER is one of those made for television movies so goes out of its way not to offend the audience . Example ? Someone gets eaten by a shark and a verbal reaction to this scene of horror is " Damn "

This movie was described by the actors, as being "unlike any other shark movie out there". I didn't find that to be true when watching this movie. The shark is killing people, the authorities at hand want the shark killed (for a handsome reward). The acting of is mediocre and somewhat very corney at times, screen cuts and slow motion sequences are cliche, and the ending (and pretty much the whole movie) is predictable. Lou Diamond was by far the best talent on the screen, and did his best to carry the film.

Overall, not a GREAT movie, but better than the later Jaws movies (and thats not hard to beat). :-)