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Sharktopus
The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
Release : | 2010 |
Rating : | 3.2 |
Studio : | Syfy, New Horizons Picture, |
Crew : | Set Decoration, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Eric Roberts Kerem Bürsin Sara Malakul Lane Liv Boughn Héctor Jiménez |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction TV Movie |
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Surprisingly incoherent and boring
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
This was the most ridiculous film I have seen in a while. It got repetitive after a while but it was not very bad. the effects are really bad, any person could do them with ms paint, But the power of VFX was not used as much as bikini babes. There was at least 100,000. The keyboards are typed on by slapping them. (SPOILER) #passwordpumpkin (end SPOILER) There was a lot of ludicrous scenes, for example, the 'cameraman' saw the shark, there were 10 beers on the table, and he was completely sober, he even drove.Thus I rate this movie 10/10. Excellent. Thrilling, Fantastic absurd, crazy, exotic, Fanciful, grotesque, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, outlandish AND perfect.
After about 15 minutes that's all I could think of - WHY?There is no logical reason to actually make a movie like this. It's not even in the "so bad it's funny" pile, it's just plain stupid and it's another movie in a growing line of movies that's ruined by bad CGI.A Scientist, Eric Roberts, is commissioned by the navy, along with his daughter, to develop a biological weapon to combat drug runners, pirates, slavers and anything else that the military might need it for, so naturally they set about splicing together a shark & an Octopus and manage to create the perfect killing machine apparently.As usual during a "routine" test of this creatures abilities, the device which controls this aberration of nature, is clipped by a motor boat propeller and gets damaged. The device is little more than a transmitter fitted with flimsy belt strapped around the creature, which they call S11, and once the scientists are no longer in control, the creature pulls it off, discards it and then sets about doing what every twisted freak of nature does best, travels to Mexico to feast on Chicas, boats, bungee jumpers and anything else you can wrap a CGI tentacle around.The thing that makes this movie just plain bad is that it actually tries to pull itself off as being a serious movie. Eric Roberts was either incredibly drunk when he agreed to do this or just plain desperate as he looks bored and bemused through the whole stupid mess. At a stretch if there was anything in this flick that could save it, it would be some of the scientific dialogue and that for once the action does not take place in the U.S but in Mexico instead, however even with that, this is a total disaster.Even if it were possible to splice together the genes of 2 totally different species like this, I don't get why it suddenly feels the need to come up on land to look for food. I've never seen an octopus do this except to get to the next rock pool before it dries out and what's it breathing? The CGI effects are terrible as is the faux reaction that needs to be done by the "actors" whenever this thing is supposed to grab them. I've also never known any shark that was impervious to a machine gun.A particularly brainless scene involves S11 coming ashore near some cultural dancers. It perches itself up on some nearby columns yet no one saw it come out of the water? One retard in the audience actually asks "is that part of the show" before all hell breaks loose. Another equally dismal scene has this bikini clad girl treasure hunting along the shoreline with a metal detector. She finds a gold coin but is pulled to her death by large tentacles. The whole scene is watched by an old man, who never warns her, never cries out for help, doesn't even appear shocked by what he just witnessed, he simply picks up the gold coin and walks off!And the movie goes on like this. The death scenes are way too predictable and clumsy, the effects are cheap, there's no acting at all and the fact that it exists as a movie is an abomination. Movie makers were doing stuff like this better back in the 1950's with "It Came from Beneath the Sea", with less of a budget and when you needed a working brain to create special effects. Even Jaws was made of rubber & fibreglass and it looked more real. Save your time, your sanity and your money and avoid this. If you must see this, get a cheap copy or borrow one and then rid the earth of it.
I purchased this little nugget in a four-pack of DVDs that also contained cinematic treats such as "Dinoshark" and "MegaPython vs. Gatoroid". I suppose there was no way i could ask for a refund afterwards, as it can't be said that i didn't know what i was getting myself into. Not that id've ever entertained such a notion: for these films are the stuff of a madman's dreams - the kind of thing you and your friends would make up when drunk, and never think someone would actually make.The man forever to be known as "T.V.'s Eric Roberts" (or, in our house, "The Master from the rubbish version of Doctor Who") stars - or at least turned up for the afternoon to film his scenes, possibly for the Scotch he gets to neck on the boat rather than actual wages - as Nathan Sands, mad scientist creating a deadly hybrid monster for a shady government defence project. Will these people never learn? Along for the ride are Sands' hot daughter (Sara Malakul Lane), an ex-marine shark hunter played by possible the most annoying actor ever to walk the face of the earth (Kerem Bursin), a hot in a sleazy kind of way female reporter who looks like she'd be filthy in the sack (Liv Boughn), and comedy drunk fisherman / eyewitness Pez (Blake Lindsay) - who almost salvages this by being pretty funny. Not to be approached when sober!!
Some of the other reviews are saying this was 'MEANT to be bad' as though this is some kind of NEW genre of movie making.Listen, it's NOT. All this is is VERY, VERY bad, period. It was not made to be campy or a B-Movie or anything else. It was made to try to make a quick buck. Eric Roberts, the only notable name in the film, pumps out LOADS of films. Look up how many films he's made in the past and how many are current;y in production. This guy is super busy making bad films. Here is an excerpt from an interview about the movie with Eric Roberts. The interviewer asked him where this movie would 'sit' on his resume: Eric Roberts: Well I have to be honest with you this project doesn't really fit in my resume. This budget was done for fun. And this project isn't in my resume any more than going to the gym does. Everybody knows they go to the gym, everybody knows I mean I made this movie.But you know, I don't brag about it. If it comes up, I don't pretend it didn't happen because I made the movie because I wanted to, because you don't work for Roger Corman for money, he doesn't pay people.So all sarcasm aside if you bring it up I'm going to talk about, and if you don't I'm not going to bring it up. That is where it fits in my resume.