NEVER has being trapped in a flooded supermarket with a giant shark on the prowl feel so ludicrous.
The humans attempt many things to get out of their predicament, including fighting with each other, falling in love (again), bonding and shouting at the top of their lungs. It's a staple of doomsday movies to have couples who have separated to reconcile to overcome their difficulties.
To make things worse, there's another giant shark in the basement car park of the supermarket. By the way, the car park is dark and dingy and is the perfect place for crimes to take place. Malaysian shoppers would never tolerate this as some have been attacked even in brightly- lit underground carparks.
Meanwhile, the photography and editing are mediocre. The movie starts off so slow that viewers will wish that the Goddamn sharks just get into the picture and get on with their jobs.
Later, a woman in a tanktop is filmed to look like a sexy model in one shot. This happens when there's a respite between shark attacks.
Anyway, how did our heroes end up in the supermarket? To start off, we go back one year before the tsunami hits Australia's Gold Coast.
Josh (Xavier Samuel of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), a lifeguard, is about to marry his fiancée, Tina (Sharni Vinson of Step Up 3D). Our first shot of her is her bikini rear.
Tina's brother is also a lifeguard. But on this fateful day, a shark has him for breakfast. Josh is too late to arrive to save him, and finds time to let out a plaintive wail in the middle of the sea.
A year later, Josh is single and working at the supermarket. Before the perfect storm hits, a teenager (Phoebe Tonkin), is caught shoplifting at the supermarket and handed over to her policeman father. Tina is back in town and bumps into Josh at the supermarket. Hei, where else would they meet in a coastal town?
However, she's not alone as she has a dour-looking Singaporean boyfriend (China's Yuwu Qi) with her. This could be his first English-speaking role as he speaks haltingly. Why didn't the filmmakers get an actor who could speak English fluently? Now everyone would think that Singaporeans can't speak English.
As the cop father puts his daughter in his car in the underground car park, he spots a robber (Julian McMahon of TV's Nip/Tuck) ready for action. He gets a gun from a box in the back of his car and goes after him.
I mention the box because it will play a big part in the finale. However, do cops carry a box with a gun, shotgun and a Taser and leave them unattended in their cars?
Anyway, the tsunami hits the coastal town and the robbers, cop, daughter and supermarket workers are trapped in the supermarket. Singaporean Adrian Phang plays the supermarket manager who gets cut down to size.
Now, there are two parallel actions going one: one in the supermarket and one in the underground car park.
An amorous couple, Kyle (Lincoln Lewis) and Heather (Cariba Heine), just finished rocking their BMW when the tsunami strikes. Why a middle-class couple feels excited in an underground car park is beyond explanation.
But this couple prove to be the best thing about the movie as their niggling arguments about fake Gucci bags and a cute dog are funny and lighten the situation amid the dreariness of the movie. However, I don't think they could have survived so long, and remain chatty, while being trapped in their submerged car.
The Singaporean boyfriend has a man-to-man talk with Josh and tells the latter that Tina was always talking about him. This makes me wonder why the Singaporean wants to be with a woman on the rebound and whose heart is with a Twilight actor.
The Singaporean then dons a weird contraption made up of supermarket baskets and weighed down by cans to walk underwater to turn off a power switch. A hose funnels air into his mask.
However, he stops a few feet away from the switch because the hose is short.
He removes the hose, switches off the power but fails to escape because of the weight of the cans. This begs the question: why didn't he also remove the cans before he switched off the power? In this way, he could have swam to safety.
In the finale, Josh gets to use the shotgun found in the box to kill a shark, but not before the shark hurtles at him and gets close to the shotgun. He then uses a taser to kill another shark.
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The humans attempt many things to get out of their predicament, including fighting with each other, falling in love (again), bonding and shouting at the top of their lungs. It's a staple of doomsday movies to have couples who have separated to reconcile to overcome their difficulties.
To make things worse, there's another giant shark in the basement car park of the supermarket. By the way, the car park is dark and dingy and is the perfect place for crimes to take place. Malaysian shoppers would never tolerate this as some have been attacked even in brightly- lit underground carparks.
Meanwhile, the photography and editing are mediocre. The movie starts off so slow that viewers will wish that the Goddamn sharks just get into the picture and get on with their jobs.
Later, a woman in a tanktop is filmed to look like a sexy model in one shot. This happens when there's a respite between shark attacks.
Anyway, how did our heroes end up in the supermarket? To start off, we go back one year before the tsunami hits Australia's Gold Coast.
Josh (Xavier Samuel of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), a lifeguard, is about to marry his fiancée, Tina (Sharni Vinson of Step Up 3D). Our first shot of her is her bikini rear.
Tina's brother is also a lifeguard. But on this fateful day, a shark has him for breakfast. Josh is too late to arrive to save him, and finds time to let out a plaintive wail in the middle of the sea.
A year later, Josh is single and working at the supermarket. Before the perfect storm hits, a teenager (Phoebe Tonkin), is caught shoplifting at the supermarket and handed over to her policeman father. Tina is back in town and bumps into Josh at the supermarket. Hei, where else would they meet in a coastal town?
However, she's not alone as she has a dour-looking Singaporean boyfriend (China's Yuwu Qi) with her. This could be his first English-speaking role as he speaks haltingly. Why didn't the filmmakers get an actor who could speak English fluently? Now everyone would think that Singaporeans can't speak English.
As the cop father puts his daughter in his car in the underground car park, he spots a robber (Julian McMahon of TV's Nip/Tuck) ready for action. He gets a gun from a box in the back of his car and goes after him.
I mention the box because it will play a big part in the finale. However, do cops carry a box with a gun, shotgun and a Taser and leave them unattended in their cars?
Anyway, the tsunami hits the coastal town and the robbers, cop, daughter and supermarket workers are trapped in the supermarket. Singaporean Adrian Phang plays the supermarket manager who gets cut down to size.
Now, there are two parallel actions going one: one in the supermarket and one in the underground car park.
An amorous couple, Kyle (Lincoln Lewis) and Heather (Cariba Heine), just finished rocking their BMW when the tsunami strikes. Why a middle-class couple feels excited in an underground car park is beyond explanation.
But this couple prove to be the best thing about the movie as their niggling arguments about fake Gucci bags and a cute dog are funny and lighten the situation amid the dreariness of the movie. However, I don't think they could have survived so long, and remain chatty, while being trapped in their submerged car.
The Singaporean boyfriend has a man-to-man talk with Josh and tells the latter that Tina was always talking about him. This makes me wonder why the Singaporean wants to be with a woman on the rebound and whose heart is with a Twilight actor.
The Singaporean then dons a weird contraption made up of supermarket baskets and weighed down by cans to walk underwater to turn off a power switch. A hose funnels air into his mask.
However, he stops a few feet away from the switch because the hose is short.
He removes the hose, switches off the power but fails to escape because of the weight of the cans. This begs the question: why didn't he also remove the cans before he switched off the power? In this way, he could have swam to safety.
In the finale, Josh gets to use the shotgun found in the box to kill a shark, but not before the shark hurtles at him and gets close to the shotgun. He then uses a taser to kill another shark.
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