Shark Night 3D

Plot synopsis:
Seven Tulane University undergraduates Sara, Nick, Beth, Malik, Maya, Blake and Gordon drive to Sara's family vacation home on a private lake. There, Sara encounters her old boyfriend, Dennis and his friend, Red.
Nick, Blake, Malik and Maya go wake-boarding when a shark attacks Malik. He is able to swim back to shore missing his right arm. When Nick swims into the lake to retrieve Malik's arm, he is pursued by the shark, barely making it to shore. Being a pre-med student, he stabilizes Malik, and they all take him to the hospital. Blood from Malik's wound attracts a shark that attacks the boat. Maya is knocked into the water and eaten. The shark damages the steering column of the boat, causing it to crash in front of the boathouse. Sara, Nick and Malik make it to shore.Dennis and Red arrive and agree to take Beth and Gordon to the mainland. During the boat trip, Dennis reveals that he and Red put the sharks in the lake and feed college students to them. Dennis forces Gordon into the water by shooting him; he swims to a mangrove tree but is devoured by a bull shark. Red and Dennis force Beth to strip down and feed her to cookiecutter sharks.Malik arms himself with a harpoon and ventures into the water to kill the shark that killed Maya, who was his fiancee. His wound attracts a hammerhead shark; he kills it but is further wounded. Nick and Blake pull the shark to shore, and Nick finds a camera attached to its belly. Blake decides to take Malik to the mainland on a jet ski. When they are pursued by sharks, Malik sacrifices himself and Blake is killed by a great white shark.Sheriff Sabin visits Sara and Nick and gives them soup, which makes Nick and Sara's dog, who has also eaten the soup, pass out. Sara hears Dennis and Red speaking from Sabin's radio, describing Beth's death. Dennis and Red then appear and take Sara to their boat, while Sabin prepares to dunk Nick into the lake, where sand tiger sharks await. Sabin reveals that he, Dennis and Red have been inspired by the Discovery Channel's Shark Week and Faces of Death videos to film people being eaten by sharks. Nick is able to break free and ignite a can of gas. Badly burned, Sabin plunges into the lake and is eaten by the tiger sharks.Dennis reveals he is bitter at Sara for leaving him. After throwing her dog into the water, Dennis and Red lower her into the lake in a shark cage. As Dennis is about to release her, Nick arrives, following a scuffle. Nick shoves Dennis into the water and tries to set Sara free but Dennis appears and tries strangling him. Nick escapes as a great white devours Dennis. Nick kills the shark and frees Sara. Nick, Sara and Sara's dog swim to the boat, having survived. A distance away, a great white shark breaches, signifying that sharks remain in the lake.

Tags: murder, sadist

Review:
For these movies to work I think they need to have some humor thrown in to the mix, films such as Piranha 3d know what they are and play with it but Shark Night just takes itself far too seriously and in the end it's just bad bad bad.Even Sara Paxton and Chris Zylka, two young actors who I quite enjoy couldn't save this film.
The fact that you barely even see any sharks is dumb too, basically all you see us fin and that's it, and the scenes when you do see a shark the special effects are so cheaply done that I felt like I was having a joke played on me, the special effects are not much better than the ones that you see in the SyFy TV movies like Sharktopus, but even those films are better than this garbage.One scene when a shark literally flies out of the water and attacks a man who is hanging on to a tree is just ridiculous, these people can't be really taking it serious I hope.
which is all you'd be wanting going into a 3D horror movie about sharks.It's a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of 'Piranha 3D' but without the tongue-in-cheek self-awareness or over the top gory thrills, there's very little to recommend in 'Shark Night 3D'.
This movie started out so great, it had that whole "Jaws"-theme going on, and it really looked like it was going to be a movie that would pay homage to the classic "Jaws" movies, then it all came crashing down hard and went downhill."Shark Night" is without a doubt one of the stupidest story lines I have ever seen in a shark movie.
The people they had cast for the various roles actually did good jobs, and that was the main thing that "Shark Night" had working for it.Having seen "Shark Night" now I feel very disappointed and cheated out of my time, because this movie was disappointing on so many levels.
I knew deep down it would never be anywhere near comparable, but everything about the film suggested it would be an enjoyable ride.Sadly, this is not the case.Instead of getting a ridiculous movie about sharks mauling pretty 20- somethings that embraces the sheer silliness of the very idea, we get a deadly serious, high-concept slasher film that seems to have no concept of what fun is.
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Ever since Jaws debuted nearly 40 years ago, the flood gates for shark movies seemed to have been permanently forced open, allowing countless films to be made, most of which fail to come even close to Spielberg's classic.
However this first attack is only a mild beginning as the sharks become more aggressive and fear begins to take its toll on the teenagers.I'm going to come right out and say it, this movie is essentially Jaw meeting a teenage slasher film.
Yeah I told you these positives were pretty shallow.To wrap this review up, Shark Night is a movie meant to kill time and provide some very cheap entertainment.
Shark Night is a movie that takes its subject matter very lightly, it doesn't try to be a serious horror film, or even try to show a lot of gore or being scary.
If you are expecting a scary movie with a lot of gore than I warn you stay away from Shark Night because it's just a light comedy with some bad acting and bad special effects.
What begins as innocent fun, ends up being a nightmare for Sara and her friends.The actors are all relatively unknown and there is a good reason for that (they aren't exactly great actors), but you can't have a shark film without hot young teens.
The movie really works better as a comedy than as a horror film because the plot is just ridiculous, but I did have a fun time with how the shark attacks were exaggerated.
After the first attack sequence, which starts with a predictable twist and then becomes a practical shot-for-shot knock-off from the all-more-effective opening scene in "Jaws," the only thing that ran through my mind was wondering how long it would be before Steven Spielberg and Universal decided to pitch out a lawsuit for copyright infringement.The whole movie looks and feels very much like it was made directly for a television release, giving it a sort of schizophrenic, out-of-place feeling.
Not scary, not entertaining, not even remotely interesting, "Shark Night" was one of the more unhappy times I've had at the movies.It seems like the only folks who can still produce good monster flicks are the Japanese.
Now I don't know about you, but the latest shark flicks I've seen are either lame melodramas based on true stories ("Open Water", "The Reef") OR taking place at the most ludicrous of locations (in Venice or in Tsunami-struck areas) OR dealing with imbecilic hybrid creatures and/or genetically altered species ("Dinoshark", "Sharktopus") So yes, call me soft and gentle perhaps, but I was reasonably pleased with the straightforward shark action and relatively refreshing plot of this "Shark Night 3D".
"Shark Night" opens like any other clichéd horror flick, namely with a bunch of teenagers heading off to a sunny lake house for a holiday full of water sports, alcohol and hormones in overdrive.
I know that sounds harsh, but although the trailer made Shark Night 3D made it look like another SyFy movie I wanted to see what it was like, as I like films like these when they are done right.
Featuring the cast of Sara Paxton, Katharine McPhee, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Joel David Moore, Chris Zylka, Alyssa Diaz, Donal Logue, Sinqua Walls, and Joshua Leonard; this creature thriller borrow elements from movies like 'Jaws' and uses him with poor execution and sloppy direction.This creature feature was already targeted with criticism before its release when it first received its PG-13 rating, much to the dismay of horror fans who were expecting to experience the blood and gory fun that creature films are often known for.
Shark Night is a terrible excuse of a horror film, and is way too watered down for its own good.
As for why it's gone so long unnoticed manages to uncover it's biggest non-surprise plot-twist later on almost right from the beginning with the surprise helper in the operation uncovered right from the moment this is found out, and thereby forces the film to go on far longer than it should with scenes clearly shown simply to beef up the running time and keep the group in danger beyond all sense of realism since the first gimmick part to this clearly isn't strong enough to support a full-length film without a lot of extra help in order to keep them in the water, and because they're being forced into the water by others rather than faced with no alternative and must be there to begin with, it really takes the fear out of the sharks because they're only the lapdogs of someone else and don't have a mind of their own, making for a rather piddly sense of fear from them.
With a movie having a name with the word '' shark '' in it two things are guaranteed to make me go to the cinema hall---.........one is the cheap thrills that one gets by seeing some blood curdling sharks with even more stomach turning teeth tear some innocent victims to pieces...........and the other is the presence of some water body like the sea or the ocean where the sharks live ; a water body that is guaranteed to make goodlooking girls take off their clothes and go swimming nearly naked into the sea.....Now which of these two things makes me more willing to go to the movie ??Clue to the puzzle---I am a lecherous man So off I went to the cinema hall to feast my eyes on some mouthwatering bodies and even more mouthwatering blood and gore....And the director of '' Final destination '' didn't disappoint---in fact the movie is more like a mini horror movie rather than a thriller.....So a group of good looking guys and hot chicks go to an island in the middle of a lake for a holiday.....But the girl who brings them there is a mysterious one ; she's a local and she's got a past she would rather not talk about.....And as they move to the place they encounter trouble with some locals who turn out to be the girl's friends...........And the locals seem to be mean guys---one of them even has a scar running up his face , while the other is a bucktoothed drunkard.....The sheriff though seems to be friendly enough....or is he ??Things certainly mysterious out there.....But nothing is meaner than the sharks.........And deadly trouble erupts as the sharks begin to kill the holidayers one by one.....But wait.....How come the sharks came into the lake ??
Even the most eventful, exciting, and thrilling scenes in Shark Night 3D aren't done properly thanks to poorly executed CGI, pitiful acting, a lack of logic, and not to mention, the biggest problem of all, the film's rating.
Some scenes in 3D are actually effective, but unlike The Final Destination, they fail to actually leap off the screen.The pluses in Shark Night 3D are just little perks that don't make the film worth seeing at all.
Its a format which has been done to death.This particular film starts off bad and gets no better.You may well enjoy this film if you have had a lobotomy at some point.If there is a tragedy in this film, it may well be the destruction of a speedboat,Think Piranha, which was only held up by good acting and a good budget, and the few college kids off for a weekend at a lake, then throw into the mix, bad acting, a very weak plot, a storyline which desperately tried to find something more than a shark attack to make it even slightly entertaining, and you have shark night, possibly the biggest turd to have been excreted by Hollywood in recent years.It is quite literally a couple of hours of your life you will never get back and will regret wasting..
Unfortunately, the movie stays on the PG-13 field from the beginning to the end, with the shark attacks represented by agitated water and a little bit of red paint.I do not think the special effects can become a bad movie into a good one, but they can at least make an experience a bit more tolerable to those of us who use to watch these kind of movies.
Don't make me laugh.In conclusion, Shark Night 3D is a tedious, predictable and atrocious "horror" film in which I unfortunately wasted my time and my money.
We actually do get some substance and story here, much more than other sharkploitation films like 'Jersey Shore Shark Attack' - whereas here, there are 'bad guys', unlike 'Jaws', with a hidden plot and agenda, and there are a few twists.A movie that fits above average in the genre of two headed shark, sharktopus and sharknado.
The CGI is also not what I'd expect from a $25 million dollar price tag, but it doesn't detract from the movie too much if your goal is just to enjoy the ride.You don't watch Shark Night 3D expecting to see Jaws, just like you don't watch Final Destination 2 (one of the director's earlier films) expecting to see The Shining.
For me, I found it surprising that this flick made it to theaters so there has to be some value to the movie and, to some degree, there is.Interestingly, the plot is rather creative: college teens go to one of their homes in a salt water lake, unknown to them that several different species of sharks are put there by some locals with sick intentions.
I guess this movie literally has a bigger bite than "Piranha 3D." While far from great, Shark Night is at least an entertaining flick, worth the watch once or twice.
A weekend at a lake house turns into a nightmare for seven stereotype young vacationers as they are subjected to shark attacks, but its not only the sharks they need to worry about.There's some good effects and action set ups but Shark Night is poorly scripted, with an equally poor storyline that compared to Scooby-Doo makes it look like The Usual Suspects.
Piranha 3D was over the top; it was tongue in cheek movie; it was fun, gory and entertaining - Shark Night 3D doesn't come close to anything.
Look I could easily give you a blow by blow of how stereotypical and underdeveloped the characters are of how there is at no time in this film character growth and development or character redemption taking place or how ineffective the character acting was by the actors or how lame and overused and played out the scenes were Hell i could even talk about the fact that shark films have been done to death but I'll save you the troublethis film was absolute GARBAGE!I thought this film was so bad I demanded from the theater my money back!
Unfortunately, as usual, the trailer has most of the films good moments included and there's not much left to see that's original in the actual film.I liked the concept of the movie, and the reason that the sharks ended up in a lake could have made for a great film, but the studio's decision to make this PG-13 killed it.
We don't care if the stars of the movie are dodgy fake looking CGI and equally dodgy fake looking boobies, we want our 80 minutes of eating popcorn and laughing guilt free at things that would be horrible if they happened in real life.Unfortunately Shark Night either forgot or decided to ignore the rules half way in.
Where at one point a bikini clad lass is trapped underwater for so long that you must start to wonder if her brain cells might start dying through lack of oxygen, before you swiftly realize that with these kids that wasn't a big problem Unfortunately shortly after they 'meet the locals' a second time the film takes an unwelcome turn, because in this case the locals I refer to aren't actually the sharks but real, walkin' (sorta) talking' redneck locals.
So what a bunch of rednecks put some sharks into a lake and started feeding random people to them that to me is better then watching the same random jaws rip off it was funny and fun i had a great time.My favorite scene is when the black guy killed the hammer head with a spear.
Its about time they brought out a killer shark attack movie that wasn't just another low budget direct to video or made for TV cheese fest but one that came out in theaters, even though SHARK NIGHT was in fact released in theaters it is unfortunately not the kind of shark movie I had hoped to see in theaters, mainly because its too tame and doesn't have a whole lot of suspense, keeping in mind this film is PG13 it was almost as if the producers were trying to cater to a certain type of audience with the wrong type of film.For instance the central characters are a bunch of college graduates in their early to mid 20's so obviously this film was aimed at teenagers instead of fans of killer shark films, in one way its not a bad thing in the other many people are not going to want to see a kids movie they would want to see a suspense packed, fast pace and very intense shark movie and like I said SHARK NIGHT is not that movie.Overall, SHARK NIGHT isn't a terrible movie but its more of shark movie for kids, all that we need now is a shark movie for adults..
As with most monster movies, the central plot involved staying alive and getting out of the danger area, and it's nothing different in Shark Night as well, with events transpiring over the course of 24 hours, with an introductory kill thrown in for good measure.Special effects wise, perhaps I did not view this in 3D as its intended format that the entire film lacked depth and looked way flatter than any other normal 2D film.
The 3D was about the only thing good about this and for a film with the word Shark in the title I'm amazed how little of them appear in this movie.
SHARK NIGHT 3D is an incredibly stupid movie that features really bad dialogue, horrible, unscary situations and a story that is so silly that you really want to start throwing things a the screen.
I'm going to be nice and not ruin a few "twists" in the film in regards to why the sharks are doing what they're doing and how they got into a lake but those who do walk into the movie should be expecting something so stupid that not even something like MEGA SHARK VS.
You can guess how the sharks got in the water way before the movie is even half over, which completely killed some of the fun.If the plot doesn't make you iffy then you would look at the cast, most of whose names many of us have never heard of.
It's entertaining enough, with a fun cast, but know going into this film that you aren't getting ANY gore, and not too much actual "shark time" on screen.
Shark Night was actually filmed quite well, had good acting, and there was a story involved too.