Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
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Plot synopsis:
In the five years since the previous film, Fin has moved to a farm in Kansas named "April's Acres," where he lives with his mother Raye and young son Gil. April is believed dead after being crushed by the wreckage of the space shuttle. Tech mogul Aston Reynolds has developed a new type of high-speed space travel with his company Astro-X, which was used to save Fin's father, Colonel Gilbert Shepard, from the moon. Astro-X has also developed a technology that is capable of using radio waves to diffuse tornadoes, leading to the end of the sharknado phenomenon.
Fin travels to Las Vegas with his cousin Gemini to meet up with his son Matt, who has returned from deployment in Iraq. Meanwhile, Reynolds has built and is opening a shark-themed hotel featuring a giant tank of sharks. While Matt and his fiancée, Gabrielle, marry and skydive from a plane, a sandstorm tornado develops that cannot be diffused by Astro-X. The tornado absorbs the water and sharks from Reynolds' hotel, creating the first sharknado in five years. The streets of Las Vegas flood, but Fin, Gemini, Gabrielle, and Matt work together to survive the storm until it heads back out into the desert.
Since returning from the moon, Col. Shepard has become an employee of Astro-X, working on the development of a weaponized mech suit with the aid of his granddaughter Claudia in San Francisco as well as April's father Wilford, a scientist. However, he is unaware that Wilford has reconstructed April into a cyborg to save her life, and told her that Fin and their family were killed by the shuttle debris to keep her at his laboratory. Fin, Gabrielle, Gemini, and Matt decide to take a train back to Kansas, only for the sharknado to follow the train after destroying the Hoover Dam. Astro-X blows up the Grand Canyon to stop the resulting flood, but as an accidental result the sharknado picks up stones to become a "bouldernado." The train ends up in Arizona, where Fin meets Anton Reynolds at Astro-X. Fin's group ends up in a small town in Texas, where they acquire chainsaws and construction gear to fight off the sharknado, which hits an oil field and transforms into an "oilnado" and then ignites into a "firenado". Meanwhile, two other sharknadoes develop, one near San Francisco that heads north and becomes a "hailnado," and the other near Yellowstone National Park that quickly transforms into a "lavanado."
At the Kansas State Line, Fin, Gemini, Gabrielle, and Matt pick up a red & white 1958 Plymouth Belvedere named Christine from Fin's friend, Colton, and reach April's Acres just before the sharknado - which has now picked up cows and become a "cownado" - strikes and Gabrielle is killed, to Matt's devastation. The house is picked up by the tornado and thrown all the way to Chicago, where it lands on the mayor. Elsewhere, April - who has learned of her family's survival and left Wilford's lab after angrily confronting him - saves Col. Shepard and Claudia from the hailnado in San Francisco. Later, Reynolds brings the three of them to Fin, Gemini, Matt and Gil, reuniting April with Fin and allowing her to introduce herself to Gil for the first time.
Reynolds informs the group that Astro-X has developed a way to alter their beacon pods in order to shut down the new sharknadoes. This method works on the hailnado and lavanado, but the cownado has since evolved further into a "lightningnado," and its electricity blocks their attempts. The situation further worsens when the lightningnado strikes a nuclear power plant (the Perry Nuclear Power Plant) in Ohio, transforming it into a deadly "nukenado" filled with radioactive sharks. Reynolds realizes that the only way to stop the nukenado from destroying everything in its path is to transform it back into a regular sharknado so Astro-X's pods will work on it, and the engines of Col. Shepard's mech suit can be used to power a device to remove the radioactivity from the storm by drawing massive amounts of water into it. Fin realizes that the only location with enough water to work is Niagara Falls, so they travel there with the nukenado following them.
At Niagara Falls, Reynolds volunteers to jump near the falls with a squirrel suit to set off the device, which will reverse the water flow upward into the nukenado and cool it. However, the device does not have enough power, and Reynolds falls off a cliff. Col. Shepard volunteers to pilot the mech suit to complete the plan, but is swallowed by a shark before he can put it on. Fin puts on the suit and flies into the storm alongside April - who can fly and shoot laser beams from her hands - to fight through and reach the device. Claudia and Matt are also swallowed by sharks. Fin manages to use the suit's power supply to activate the device, but he is electrocuted in the process and bitten in the chest by a shark. Niagara Falls is reversed into the nukenado, neutralizing its radiation and rendering it a normal sharknado again. The Astro-X technicians activate the pods, destroying the storm. However, Fin becomes unconscious and falls over the cliff and is swallowed by a shark, which is promptly swallowed by three more sharks and a blue whale in quick succession. Gil, having survived by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, pulls his own small chainsaw out of a stone and cuts open and enters the whale, where he cuts open the sharks to reveal Col. Shepard, Matt and Claudia all alive. Together they pull Fin out, but he has no pulse. April and Colonel Shepard use CPR on the unconscious Fin. Using her power supply and two sharks to create an improvised defibrillator, April manages to revive him.
Just as the Shepard family rejoices, the Eiffel Tower falls from the sky, having been blown all the way from France. Nova, who was earlier mentioned to have been vacationing in Paris, emerges from the wrecked structure, causing the Shepards to realize that the sharknado crisis is not only not over, but may now be a global problem.
In a post-credits scene, Reynolds is revealed to have survived.

Review: I've often considered Sharknado to be the worst movie franchise of all time and found myself delaying watching the 4th part and this right here is why.I like Scyfy originals, I think they have a certain charm about them but the Sharknado movies are devoid of that and in it's place will it will stupidity, movie references and cameo appearances of z list celebrities on the downswing of their careers.Once again 90 minutes of moronic scenes, ridiculous "action and humour that will appeal to nobody over the age of 9.So far out of a potential 40pts they've acquired 4 from me and I just don't see the fifth and/or any subsequent sequels doing much better.Just so very very dire.The Good: Kudos that the franchise has lasted this long The "Hoff" is actually on form The Bad: It's a sharknado film Pretty much everythingTara Reid Things I learnt from this movie: If you are a company specialising in preventing sharknados it makes perfect sense to have a giant tank full of sharks outside Male strippers can deflect sharks using nothing but their penis Corey Taylor may be a flawless musician but his movie role choices suck The pirate ship in Las Vegas is a real fully functional ship complete with real swords and working cannons A 100ft by 50ft tank can hold hundreds if not thousands of fully grown sharks The water from said tank is sufficient to flood a city and keep afloat an entire ship Seth Rollins plans on super kicking a storm It's a cownado!.
'SHARKNADO 4: THE 4TH AWAKENS': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)The fourth installment in the popular Syfy network television film series (which began in 2013).
The story takes place five years after the events of the third film; and there hasn't been a 'sharknado' in all of that time.
All of the 'SHARKNADO' films are laughably bad, which makes them also somewhat enjoyable.
Fans of the series will probably still enjoy it.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/AZDkLpTvRzc. Should have stopped a long time ago....
And this 4th movie sure is the icing on the cake so far - I bet it will be even worse if they continue to make these movies."Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens" is now at the point where it stopped being fun, and it was actually somewhat of an embarrassment to witness.
Don't get your hopes up.The acting in "Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens" was as to be expected, and if you have seen any of the previous three movies, then you know exactly what you are in for, especially since none of the people on the cast list has been particularly improving their acting talents.The effects, well, let's just say that they were also as to be expected.
To celebrate five years of bliss, billionaire businessman Tommy Davidson (as Mr. Reynolds) opens a "Shark World" theme park in Las Vegas...The inevitable happens.
This looks like a job for Superman or, rather, super-hero Ian Ziering (as Finlay "Fin" Allan Shepard), strange visitor from "Beverly Hills 90210" who came to Asylum with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
Part of the "Sharknado" fun is seeing someone like Matt Lauer or Ann Coulter disappear into a shark's mouth.
They can keep making Sharknado movies until the end of time, and I'll keep watching.These movies are hilarious.
Maybe one a year.You know why Sharknado movies will always be good?
Just like we'd come to expect from the series, SHARKNADO 4: THE 4TH AWAKENS is campy B-movie-esque fun.
the plot lines are fantastic and well thought out, you can see the sacrifices the actors make to act the best they can in this movie, all the dialogues don't only give solid relationships for the last 3 movies butt also bring all the characters to life and even make you feel like you are part of the action!
Besides the movie has absolutely 0 plot holes and it all makes sense.I like the fact that they gave the five year old a freaking chainsaw to cut open some innocent wildlife.
I like the first 2 Sharknado movies.
I really don't care how much credibility I lose for saying it but it's a great satire of the so-bad-it's-good kind of movie and the Syfy Channel Original movie, it seems they went for escalation in the second one and...
If you want to choke from laughter I recommend watching this movie that is so bad it's actually amazing..
On the other hand, I don't think anyone will ever accuse the Sharknado movies of being intellectual or really something with gravitas (no pun intended of course).There are quite a few cameos and star appearances (one from a fellow actor from another beast Scy-Fi movie with different animals as beasts.
With the world stabilized from sharknados, a freak accident with the prevention technology forces the world into another round of attacks by these incidents and brings the heroes with their greatest challenge yet in stopping them from happening.This here was simply another highly enjoyable and utterly crazy entry in the series.
The fact that this one starts in with the newfound means of setting up the new reality where it's intended to prevent the world from the sharknado appearing again in a spectacular opening sequence that brings about the spectacularly cheesy action the series is known for with the different monuments getting ravaged by the creatures and having the greatness of the different mini-attacks that play along to their universe's rules while getting in plenty of the treasured cameos.
Likewise, the big action set-pieces that come about here because of the general plot line in play here means that this one really so full of awesome action scenes that comes along throughout here which gives us the train attack alongside the howling tornado outside, the great town- attack in the blazing oil-field moves past the group and the big attacks on the different cities that really allow the kind of over- the-top scenarios and action which become quite fun.
That even includes the rather exciting and thrilling encounter at the farmhouse where the tornado-like winds provide this with some really thrilling sequences as they have to fight off the wind as well as the encroaching sharks whip around outside that stands as one of the greatest scenes in the film.
Sharknado 4 (2016)** (out of 4) The fourth film in the series has a company creating a special shield that has prevented any future sharnados.
Unfortuantly when Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) is in Las Vegas the thing breaks down and soon more killer sharks are flying around.You know, I remember when the original movie aired on SyFy and there wasn't a bit of hype.
SHARKNADO 4 is pretty much the same thing we saw in the previous movies but this one here goes even further in the social media game by having countless cameos from famous and semi-famous people.For the most part the film is mildly entertaining and especially the first twenty-minutes in Las Vegas.
I thought the film managed to have some fast and fun action and there were some creative shark kills as well.
Ziering and Tara Reid did a decent enough of a job but folks like David Hasselhoff and especially Gary Busey were just wasted..
It's been 5 years since the last Sharknado, Fin and his family are enjoying the tranquillity of Las Vegas, what could go wrong?!
another Sharknado attack!A re-re-re-re-hash of the other films, just in a different place, with different people, and different stunts and deaths.More amusing than then last film in the series but getting a bit old now.
The first two 'Sharknado' movies were not great and had a lot wrong with them, but they were guilty pleasure fun as long as not taken seriously.
The previous film may have lacked charm, fun and energy, though the fun came in occasionally, but 'Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens' is completely devoid of all three and has so many other things wrong too.
The scenery is pretty good but the film is shot in a very rushed-looking and drab way, editing is sloppy as well as choppy and the shark special effects are typical dreadfully artificial Asylum/SyFy fare.
Regarding the shark attacks and death scenes (none being good enough to even reach "reasonably fun" level), that the sharks have little personality let alone menace hurts them and even more so the unintentional silliness comes at the expense of thrills and suspense, which are nowhere in sight, and gets tiresome.
The first two films had some great funny lines, but the script here contains nothing remotely amusing or memorable and instead feels stale and tiresomely cheesy.'Sharknado 4' is even more of a pale retread than the third film, with very little maintaining interest and instead having numerous scenes leading nowhere It's further not helped by trying too hard being dopey fun and in the process taking itself too seriously at times that any life is sucked out, then including new ideas, like the different kinds of "nados", intended to be fresh but are just cheap and ridiculous.Overall, a less than extravagant awakening and feels tired.
The Sharknado movies are famous for being so bad that they're actually good.
bad.After I watched this movie, I thought it was alright.
For like an hour and twenty-five minutes Sharknado: The Fourth Awakens, is insulting you, did you not f*cking notice?
This is my review of Sharknado 4: The Fourth Awakens (spoiler free)0.5/5 Yet another Sharknado movie why on Earth do they keep making these I mean the idea was good for the first movie but they should have just stuck with that one.
Although this maybe the best in the series it still proves that people will go to extreme lengths to watch their favourite shark franchise to which in my opinion was bad the first time.
The story starts off okay but when the nados come in that's when things go to pot, and I know people will say this is a work of art and its in the so-bad-that-it's-good range well I'll just put this plainly this isn't so bad that its good it's just plain bad.Unlike the other Sharknados where they originated from water this one originates from sand and then goes through America uncontrollably turning into all sorts of disastrous things, like a firenado or even a nukenado etc.
But it's clear now that this series has jumped the shark and from the ending it looks like there will be yet another one god only what that one will be called.Weirdly enough this is set five years after the third installment which is interesting because everyone has been living in peace and prosperity over the last five years, but then due to 'mother nature' which was somehow destroyed another one comes back.
But it's clear that fans love this because they keep making more of them for some unknown reason.Verdict: The fourth installment of the most popular shark series is a also the most stupid but is the best in the series but a mile.
I do not know why people do not like this movie.
I have a hard time believe that there is and will be any worse movie  then the Sharknado.
But the filmmakers have made a thing of making  these movies over and over again just because they are so so so bad and  total crap.
Having seen the other 3 Sharknado films, I thought it couldn't get any worse.
Start the film off as stupid bonkers as you can (believe me, car surfing is involved) throw as many cameos as you can who have had an overwhelming amount of work done (Carrot Topp, Wayne Newton, and JedWard are looking a little fat these days), and then reference as many films as you can in the films running time.And now, they are even opening up the asylum gates by having Lavantuala in the same universe as Sharknado, which is pretty funny, but them to throw in a random reference to John Carpenters Christine in there with it, just beggars belief.It's not very good, but then it's not supposed to be when we have lines like 'Shark-berg, right ahead' referencing Titanic and the plethora of Wizard of Oz lines quoted toward the end.But when you have a film that features Gary Busey as a scientist and Tara Reid as a bionic woman, you cannot help but be more than curious.And it ends with the promise of a fifth movie..See you next year..
I had no idea sharks and tornadoes were so dangerous, and I've seen Jaws and The Wizard of Oz like 40 times each.
Watch as he grows more of an emotional attachment to his chainsaw than he does to his 5/10-year-old son who totally lived his whole life thinking his dad effed a shark.Finn faces his greatest challenge yet, when he realizes that the sharknados have grown more powerful by absorbing the four elements: fire, ice, boulders, nuclear, electricity, and cows.
The film takes place five years after the events of Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
I think this is my 2nd favorite after Sharknado 2: The Second One. If you love bad cheesy campy B-movies, you'll definitely love SHARKNADO: THE 4TH AWAKENS!!!.
It's been five years since the last sharknado event, Fin has moved to a farm in Kansas, where he lives with his mother Raye and his young son Gil who thinks his mother is a shark since he was born in one in the last film, yeah.
When Fin goes to Las Vegas and a new sharknado appears, things goes balls off the walls crazy from there.Besides sharkandoes, we also get other types of crazy and unrealistic tornadoes with the exception of the firenado which is a real thing.The movie is packed with movie references all over, some examples are The Wizard of Oz, Twister (with the cows in the tornado), Snakes on a Train (when the sharks attacks the Amtrak train), and Christine.
Let's not forget the new line of celebrity cameos like Gary Busey, the Chippendales Dancers, Gilbert Gottfried, Wayne Newton, and Dr. Drew Pinsky.Out of all the Sharkando films, this one is definitely the most insane.
For reasons unknown the sharknados return and are fueled by a myriad of materials; now there are sand 'nados, fire 'nados, lightning 'nados and fearsome atom 'nados.Sharknado hero, Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) , has been trying to live a life with some kind of normalcy; still saddened by the death of his wife April (Tara Reid), thought to be crushed to death by a shark.
Characters from all kinds of films and TV shows have cameo roles, I really enjoyed Gilbert Godfrey and watching Carrot-Top get eaten by a shark.Tara Reid is back like the 6 million dollar woman on steroids.
THE 4TH AWAKENS is the latest in the interminable series of SHARKNADO films by The Asylum.
The first couple were fun, cheesy B-movies, but the last two have been dumb comedies full of cameoing stars and stupid in-jokes.
Tara Reid and Ian Ziering do their best to look earnest but are an embarrassment, while the film's effects take some beating in terms of cruddiness..
I thought part 3 was in the running for worst movie of all time, then I watched this!!
Not just for the bad CGI that syfy channel is known for but for ripping off other movies like Christine and Star Wars and the wizard of oz!!!
You are no longer laughing at how funny these stupid movies are but you are pulling for the Sharks to take out the good guys!!!
A study found that people who watch bad films on purpose is linked to being intellectual, so that's good to know, you'd have to be a genius to understand how the makers can continue making these trashy movies, probably because of the buzz from social media, I just watched this fourth entry for fun, and as a critic.
Basically it has been five years since the last sharknado that devastated Washington, D.C., Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) has moved with his mother Raye (Cheryl Tiegs) and young son Gil (twins Christopher and Nicholas Shone) to a farm in Kansas, while April Wexler (Tara Reid) is thought to be dead, after being crushed by space shuttle wreckage.
Tech mogul Aston Reynolds (Tommy Davidson) owns the company Astro-X, who have developed high-speed space travel, which was used to rescue Fin's father Colonel Gilbert Shepard (David Hasselhoff) from the moon, they have also developed technology capable of using radio waves to diffuse tornadoes, leading to the end of the sharknado phenomenon.
In Las Vegas, Reynolds has built and opens a shark- themed hotel featuring a giant tank of sharks, a sandstorm tornado develops that cannot be diffused by Astro-X, the tornado sucks up the sharks, creating a new sharknado, the city is devastated, but Fin is there with his cousin Gemini (Masiela Lusha), his son Matt (Cody Linley) and Matt's fiancée Gabrielle (Imani Hakim) to work together and fight it.
Reynolds informs the group that Astro-X may have a way to shut down the new tornadoes, it works to stop the hailnado and lavanado, but the cownado has evolved further into a "lightningnado", and it gets worse when it strikes a nuclear power plant, turning it into a deadly "nukenado" with radioactive sharks.
Gil gets his own small chainsaw to cut open the sharks, Colonel Shepard, Matt and Claudia are all alive, and April and the Colonel use improvised CPR to revive an unconscious Fin. Gil finally accepts April as his mother, but before they can celebrate the end of the sharknadoes, the Eiffel Tower has been blown all the way from France and falls from the sky, they realise the tornadoes are now a global problem.