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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

12 Days of Terror is a made-for-TV dramatic account of the 1916 Jersey Beach and Matawan Creek shark attacks that inspired both the novel and the movie Jaws. And that's what this basically is. The movie doesn't even try to hide that it's basically Jaws except being told through real historical events. People defend this movie by saying that because the events told here inspired Jaws, it shouldn't be criticized in this manner. But I'll say this (and this seems to be something I end up saying a lot now): write a script that doesn't make it seem so much like Jaws. I know it's possible. In the middle of the movie, we have a predictable romantic subplot with a nice guy who is too afraid to show his feelings for a pretty girl he once knew who is marrying this other guy who has a good standing in business and has a lot of money, blah blah blah. You gotta wonder, are these kind of movie girls really that heartless? The guy she's marrying isn't even a nice person, so you gotta wonder what she sees in him, other than being part of a business and having a lot of money. The nice guy, who is a lifeguard by the way, looks too good to be a 1916 type and I'm happy to find out I'm not the only one who thought the makers of this film tried to get someone who looks like Tom Cruise. The film repeats a lot of the plot elements from Jaws and you can tell which characters are copies of the ones from Jaws. A positive note is that the production design of the movie really makes it look like it is set in 1916. The shark looks o.k. too, when it's not a lame CG creature swimming in a river. A horrific chore and an insult to the film that inspired this. Will you shark movie filmmakers stop trying to remake Jaws? It's getting tiresome.

12 Days of Terror: 5 out of 10: This is one strange film. A period piece Jaws taking place in Matawan NJ in 1916. (They actually do a nice job recreating the early nineteenth century Jersey shore line, except the boats are too modern.) I always have enjoyed a good (or even bad) shark attack movie. I always figured it was because of the fun munch the swimmer action. I never really thought about the T and A part of it. You know all those nice girls running around in their string bikinis or even less. Since 1916 female swimwear was apparently designed by the Taliban there is barely an ankle visible in the whole film. Funny how you don't miss the little things till they are gone.Creating an even bigger quandary is the surprising over the top homoerotic overtones throughout the entire film. Seriously not since Jeepers Creepers 2 have I seen more shirtless boys making googly eyes at each other. The two leads Colin Egglesfield and Mark Dexter are supposed to be in a love triangle with Jenna Harrison but the way these two carry on with each other that poor girl doesn't have a chance no matter whom she chooses. It's like Brokeback Beach Bingo.That aside this is Jaws by the numbers throwing out the actual historical facts and having our hero along with John Rhys-Davies (who apparently still will appear in any movie offered him.) go shark hunting with barrels and a crazy naturalist. (This along with the rundown ship having an inboard gasoline motor is needless to say ahistorical.) So if you like your Jaws slow paced, with a made for TV Merchant and Ivory feel and you prefer the first victim be a hunky guy in wet clingy cotton one-piece rather than a naked blonde girl. I have got your movie. I on the other hand am going to go watch a Ginger film to help clean my palate.

I have been obsessed with great white sharks since I saw Jaws when I was a very small child. I have seen the movie 'Twelve Days of Terror' and read the book as well, and both are utterly fascinating. Like it was said in the book, this incident in 1916 was a 'once in a lifetime' deal. Nothing like this has ever been happened before (and if it did, it was NEVER documented) and probably will not ever happen again, at least not in our lifetimes. I whole heartedly believe that the culprit back in 1916 was a juvenile great white shark. There are scientists that believe it was a bull shark, or a group of sharks. The shark that is on the cover of 'Twelve Days of Terror' was later autopsied and 10 to 15 pounds of human flesh were found inside. There is no doubt that it was a real, true man-eater that attacked all of those people (I believe it was 6 people total, and only one survived.) A shark that preys on humans (which is not a natural food source for sharks of any species) truly, in my opinion is a freak of nature. Very fascinating.

While I thought the movie was good. In the fact that it was filmed well and had good acting in it. I still felt it was a "Jaws" rip-off. The movie had great references to actual true life accounts of the incidents. Because of the way the story was played out I felt some what cheated out of a movie that could have captured the events of that era more accurately.I'd recommend seeing it as its not a bad movie at all. Just don't expect to see much more than a Jaws remake as far as the story line goes. To give it a little more credit than Jaws though I'd have to say the special effects were awesome. The action scenes of the attacks were totally believable. Over all I'd say if you are into sharks and action flicks this one is well worth seeing.