theprodigynerd

Let's be honest, this is obviously not a 10/10 movie. No where close to it. This makes Jaws 4 look like perfect cinema. However, I thoroughly enjoy myself every time I watch this movie. It's just a perfect mix of pure stupidity, horrific acting, nonsensical decision making, and sharks that swim in the sand. It truly doesn't get better than this. Not to mention the creative swear words that now have me telling people off with the creative phrase, "Go eat a pinecone you crunchy!" I have no idea what that means and I have no intention of figuring it out. Needless to say, everyone should take time to watch this perfectly horrible movie.

Those closest to me know that while I frequent the theatres often, (sometimes even seeing the same movie multiple times), I almost never leave without at least one complaint about the movie I just watched. I have NO complaints about this movie. It is EXACTLY what I wanted to see in an action comedy. The characters were likeable, they had growth, the plot was well paced and solid, the action was exciting and the gore grotesque, (but in the best way possible). Not to mention that it was surprisingly clean for a rated R movie. Not to say it didn't earn the rating, but the plot wasn't muddled with unnecessary, drawn out sex scenes and the swearing was used (somewhat) sparingly. I go to these kinds of movie for the guts and gore so I was just delighted with how this movie turned out. I will definitely be going back to the theatre to see this again!!!

Edit: I saw this at an early showing on 3-8-25.

I was very much looking forward to seeing this movie, I like Aaron Taylor-Johnson and this seemed like it was going to be able to show off his talent. I could not have been more wrong. Now, credit where credit is due, the score was great and Taylor-Johnson did the best with what he was given. The quality was brought down by the sketchy CGI (Some looked fine, others terrible) and the atrocious acting from the supporting actors! Granted, the script did no one any favours, but it seemed like a few actors did not even try to make it work. This made it very difficult to stay in the fictional world because the dialogue and the characters felt so disconnected. The main female lead also felt a bit shoe horned in to get the feminism points and it took away character development from some of the other characters. Sony needs to throw in the towel with super hero IPs and stop dragging good actors down with their box office failures.