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As Good As It Gets

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Ahhh spaghetti horror with Lee Majors.A group of American terrorists blow up a Brazilian mining operation, in an attempt to heist a collection of jewels.They hide their take in a local lake...not realizing the waters are infested with piranha.Turns out, the man behind the whole operation, seeded the dam with piranha, to prevent anyone from betraying the group.Now, they're all dying.And only the most cunning will come away with the booty.I mean, this is obviously a complete ripoff of Joe Dante's Piranha from the year before...but it's also a bit different, and a little epic- at least in it's vision.Execution is another story.The acting is mediocre, at best. And the special effects are bad. So bad at some points, you can almost see the persons hand holding the things in a tank of water. Laughably bad, at least, and reliant upon models that look like fish tank props. Though, they do give the film some of it's charm. It's the story, which has a lot going on, that saves this from totally sucking. But it's still pretty bad. Worth a laugh if anything.3.5 out of 10.

A group of thieves dump the proceeds from a heist on the river bed before adjourning for a sixty day sunset pause, but before they can see out the self-imposed 'cooling off' period, betrayal emerges and greed threatens to unravel their 'perfect' crime. Fortunately, the river is home to a particularly aggressive strain of piranha who protect the treasure from recovery, ensuring no pain, no gain for anyone.Lee Majors makes a rare film appearance (somewhere between "Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Fall Guy") trying to compete with double crossing accomplices, while his love interest (Hemingway) and her entourage become embroiled in the web of deceit and double cross. Franciscus is a highlight as the shady mastermind and backgammon enthusiast, with a weak but very cold heart.Prolific Italian director Antonio Margheriti transforms this standard crime caper with his catchy title, the climax in particular aboard a stricken tour boat delivering a few toothy critters doing what they do best. An unusually strong cast including Gary Collins, Marisa Berenson, prolific Spaghetti westerner Anthony Steffen and the corpulent Roy Brocksmith add considerable depth and talent. Apart from some dubious sub-plots (e.g. the storm), sets and 'special' effects (miniatures), "Killerfish" is a reasonable creature-feature flavoured crime caper that should hold the interest in spite of being somewhat overlong.

I remember seeing this on British TV around about 1983 or 1984. The reason i mention this is because i had seen Jaws on British TV in the summer of 1981 (it was its premiere) and i remember wishing that i had seen it on the big screen. Jaws is my favourite film of all time.Now back to Killer Fish. I was about seven or eight years old when i first saw this. There are only three things i remember about it.1. Lee Majors gets a lot of Piranha bite wounds (im a little bit foggy on that one mind).2. A fat guy who looks like John Candy tries to make an escape by rubber dinghy and gets torn to pieces.3. And finally, i have always remembered Majors and the rest of the cast being adrift in a sinking cabin cruiser out on a lake somewhere. I always mind the boat sinking more or less the same way that The Orca vessel sunk in Jaws.Turns out its another rip-off. But back in the early eighties in Scotland, some families were still unable to afford a VHS so the TV was what you had to make do with........as was these type of B Flicks!

I saw this movie yesterday. I liked the beginning. A couple of jewelery-thiefs carries out a plan to steal some jewels near a powerplant and a barrage. They succeed to steal them and also avoid getting caught when "escaping". They hide the bait in a preplanned secret place for them to recover later on. So far so good. In this part of the movie i thought that "yes! this could be a quite a good/exciting/thrilling movie to watch.." But when they gather together afterwards, a "new" twist in the plot appears or comes up to surface. One member of the company has already planned a deceiving backstabbing plan to get hold of the treasure alone. And how that is done and carried out in the movie is where I get a bit disappointed. I don't gonna say how, but the realism in that plan is far from reliable. It's quite dull how it is carried out and how the actors acts/behaves in that part of the movie. As the title of the movie claims, there is a human threat in the movie called as we all know "piranhas". Small and dangerous predators. But I don't like how they are described in the movie. Of course they can be dangerous to other mammals and us humans, but they don't attack that easily in real life as in the movie. For what I have learned blood and hunger triggers an attack. With that in mind you can wonder how in h-ll they can attack people so easily as in this movie and will they not ever stop being hungry for one single moment!!!?? They just keep attacking and attacking. I'm not gonna let out all details in this movie, I stop here. However this movie does not s-ck totally. it has some tense/exciting moments but you will probably get bored out quickly. At least i did. I Grade it 4/10.