06.11
I tend to be a fan of bad movies. But sometimes I forget that there are bad movies, and then there are Bad movies…
First, I will have to comment on the effects in this movie. They are bad. They aren’t even SciFi chanel bad. I don’t know if it’s CGI, or if they used clay mation. Hell, sometimes, it looks like they just put a drawing of a shark on a stick and moved it around. And talk about continuity errors, first they show an offshore oil rig, then they show it wrapped in tentacles, then its fine, then wrapped in tentacles. And they handle the ship getting hit worse than season one of Star Trek, only half the damn bridge seems to shake. One group is flying around like idiots, and the other is just sitting there, also like idiots.
Anyways, actual plot time. Basically, you have a megalodon shark and a giant octopus who were frozen mid combat way back in the beginning of time. And now, thanks to global warming, they are unfrozen. The giant shark makes his way to San Francisco while the octopus goes to Japan. One the way, the octopus takes out an oil tanker, while the shark eats a jet, by jumping out of the water and biting it in the air. Awesome scene, if it weren’t for the above mentioned horrible effects. Several navy ships are lost due to this kaiju sized duo, again, in horribly shot and edited scenes.
Eventually they decide that the weapons of man are useless against these great beasts, after all, missiles just blow up in the water around them, not even leaving a scratch. This is where you get to the title scene where, and I really hope I’m not giving anything away here, the shark and octopus meet up for the climactic battle.
The only other thing worth mentioning is that Allen, played by Lorenzo Lamas, is a racist. There was no reason for this that I could find in the story. And the lines certianly weren’t added for comedic value. It was just awkward and forced. It’s like you grabbed the script and just added, “Jew’s are bad” into each dialog.
All said and done, it may be worth a dollar rental from a redbox, or adding it to your queue on Netflix, but it really wasn’t worth the hype it was getting.