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A little Die Hard, some The Game, and some good old Mel Gibson fun. While On the Line isn't the greatest movie, it held my interest with non-stop suspense. It is a real nail-biter until you realize what is really happening. Mel does a great job of playing Elvis the Talk-show host, and delivers a good believable portrayal of a man on the edge. The story gets moving very early on and builds to a crescendo that might be a bit too predictable. But still very entertaining. It's good to see Mel Gibson in a decent role again, and while this movie wasn't a Lethal Weapon or a Braveheart it was a pretty decent movie.

I really tried to like this movie because I like westerns, but this movie could have been about hikers, campers, or just people lost in the woods. Scenery and music does not "make" a movie, and although there is some decent scenery the aggravating score does nothing to help this clinker. The story seems to drag and would have made a good 20 minuter TV show, but not a full length movie. There were too many characters to develop in the time it took to drag this movie to a conclusion. A little more actual story and a lot less unnecessary shots of people walking back and forth in the distance might have made this a better movie. The bad guys just need to be bad guys, and not spend every scene proving how bad they are. This director should learn to tell a story, and not waste film. Sad... because this story had some potential but it got lost by actors trying to be evil Clint Eastwoods. There is a great deal of stupid and unnecessary dialogue that make this movie forgettable. A better title would have been Dragging Trail. Not one of my favorites by any means.

Why watch the movie and ruin the trailer? The half Spanish crap without translations and the flicking of information without the time to actually see what it is they are looking at was so distracting. What was the deal with the little men in the boat??? ...I don't know because it wasn't explained. What a cheap piece of crap this movie is. I really felt like I was watching either a movie that wasn't quite finished, or I was wasting my money on a story that would have been a poor choice on Tubi. Too much droning on and on about legends and not enough action from the shark ...this was supposed to be a movie about a shark, a demon shark, or a megalodon so where is the action from the shark? This was one of the worst examples of storytelling I have EVER seen! Save your money on this one, because it is bound to show up in the bargain bin at Walmart very soon. I drove home after seeing this movie and even though nothing happened on the way, it was a better story than this trash told. The Black Demon didn't live up to expectations by even the smallest margin. Did someone forget to finish writing the script? I kept waiting for it to get better but it just kept sinking deeper into the hole. Maybe having a story focusing on a megalodon, an oil rig, a family, a Mexican legend, and something about little men in a boat was a bit too much to deal with in the time it took for this movie to sink lower than Sharknado, but Sharknado didn't come out as a serious movie. Not a lot of shark and too much back-and-forth banter in Spanish and English set the tone for people to get tired of reading the dialogue and missing the action. To be honest there wasn't a great deal of action anyway... I am so sick of crappy shark movies, and The Black Demon was right up there on the crappiest shark movie I have seen since The Two-Headed-Shark Attack. I bought my young son a plastic bat at a flea market while carrying him in a backpack carrier. He spent the entire time there hitting me in the head with it. That bat was a better purchase than buying a ticket for this crappy movie.