Apex Predators (2021) User Reviews

Pathetic on so many levels

[rainerberger · 1/10 · 11 May 2021]

Lots and lots of stock footage of fish swimming serenely under water, people walking along the beach, long range footage of a shark swimming, etc but no footage of a shark actually attacking somebody. Interspersed with extremely bad acting. Add a terrible script and a director who doesn't know or care what he is doing.

The only redeeming feature was that some of the songs on the soundtrack were not bad.

Another one that leaves Ya thinkin...

[wbsimsjr-32405 · 1/10 · 11 May 2021]

Is money so worthless that people throw it at backing movies like this???

Beyond awful

[grangeheights · 1/10 · 12 May 2021]

Stock footage, unimportant shots that go on way too long, it just goes from bad to worse faster than the quietly swimming sharks.

Truly terrible.

You probably won't get past the first 10 minutes

[abnotic · 1/10 · 4 September 2021]

Looks like it was shot on a bootleg smart phone. I love shark movies but this was the first movie ever where I couldn't get past the opening scenes. Truly atrocious acting, editing, directing, etc.

So bad

[kimensign · 1/10 · 15 May 2021]

Started watching "Apex Predators" this morning. It's sooo bad. The underwater filming has to be the worst I have ever seen for lighting. I'm talking not even go pro status. I'm almost thinking they just maybe pulled stock video from the 80s/90s!! The coral reefs are totally dead as well. Then the fish they are showing in "California" are not found anywhere near that region, definitely another country altogether. I am suspect I will be able to enjoy many shows like this anymore without picking them apart.

This seals it

[rosenbergjr-18858 · 1/10 · 14 May 2021]

Worst director ever. As with all of his movies, 90% of the "film" is padding, and the other 10% is overexposed, under-lit, shaky, or grainy. This is as unwatchable as everything else he's done. Here's an offbeat idea Dustin, next time you make a shark attack movie, consider adding a shark attack.

The cast of characters remains the same. Mel Novak, Brinke Stevens, Dawn Heisey, Ken May, etc. None of these people would be working actors but for the existence of this director. Wooden and lifeless, just like the film.

Do we have the technology yet to create a shock collar that prevents Dustin Ferguson from ever holding a camera again?

EW EW EW EWWWW!

[tddbromax · 1/10 · 12 May 2021]

A 10 dollar budget filmed on a 5 dollar camera with free "actors".

Where are the predators ?

[adi_2002 · 2/10 · 14 May 2021]

The only reason I give this a two is because of the two breasts that can be seen in the movie. Also for the scenes with the beautiful sea and the exotic fish.

Why is this called horror? Because is not, I don't see blood or something else too make it scary.

On the poster you can see sharks but not in the movie not even a fake one. Was too much effort to let us know who killed those peoples?

Please tell me.....

[neuroticpeacecorpse · 1/10 · 12 May 2021]

What do you have to smoke to like this? It's more like a 'can you watch more than 15 minutes' contest.

Nothing to get your teeth into, or indeed anythings teeth

[tim_dearing-1 · 1/10 · 16 May 2021]

Quite atrociously bad in every respect. No story to speak of, certainly no followable plot, absolutely no acting, and without seeming offensive (as I'm certainly no looker), some of the ugliest people I've ever seen on film that are supposedly attractive!

Add to the list of awfulness the fact that there is, visually speaking, NO shark attacks what so ever, then you get what is basically a lot of stock footage interspersed with chronic camerawork and no story line.

Seriously, put your body parts in a blender and watch them liquify - it's more fun to see.

Awful!

[BudoSenpai · 24 October 2022]

What a huge pile of crap, it can't get no worse than this! The best thing you can do is light up a joint and have yourself a good laugh. As a matter of fact, they should have listed this as a comedy, at least they would have had a better chance at getting a few good reviews. Half the movie is stock footage, and even that sucks!! The acting is terrible, and the cinematographer shouldn't be allowed to work in this country ever again! There are courses in screenwriting and directing, you should invest some money in a few. Dustin Ferguson, stop producing this type of garbage! It should be against the law to make movies this bad.

A great movie

[bosse-lindberg · 9/10 · 5 January 2022]

We had so much fun watching this movie. It's probably one of the worlds worst movies but we had a good laugh.

The acting is extremely bad and there's not a lot of predators. The cgi makes you wanna cry. But I still love this movie.

A Ten Beer, Body-Parts-On-The-Beach Blast!

[tmalanowski-1 · 7/10 · 15 May 2021]

Hey c'mon, I enjoy low-budget cinema, and like to.quaff some brews and check out some new offerings from made-for-streaming auteurs!

This movie had me with the term "Sharksploitation"! Lol!

Plus, it's always fun to see Brinke Stevens! Give it a try.

Oh this was bad...

[paul_haakonsen · 1/10 · 27 June 2021]

Right, well as I sat down to watch the 2021 movie titled "Jaws of Los Angeles" (aka "Apex Predators"), I must admit that I didn't really harbor much of any high hopes or expectations for the movie. But still, with it being a shark movie that I hadn't already seen before, and on the snowballs chance in Hell of it being a great shark movie, of course I sat down to watch "Jaws of Los Angeles".

And this movie was atrociously bad. Seriously, I mean this is one of the worst shark movies I have suffered through, and I had been through a lot of shark movies. What made "Jaws of Los Angeles" fail was the writing from writer and director Dustin Ferguson.

Not at a single moment throughout the course of this movie, which made a lot of use of stock footage of sharks, did I ever feel that the danger of actual shark attacks was present. And it didn't really help much that the actors and actresses in the movie were putting on what could best be classified as dubious and questionable performances all round.

As for the cast in "Jaws of Los Angeles", well... Let's just say that the managed to get together an ensemble of actors and actresses, sure. But let's not go ahead and say that these were top notch performers. In fact, the vast majority of performances in the entire movie were downright abysmal to look at. If you do enjoy watching questionable plastic surgery results, then consider yourself in for a treat as you sit down to watch "Jaws of Los Angeles".

"Jaws of Los Angeles" was frightfully devoid of sharks, well aside from stock footage that didn't have any feel of menacing or danger to it. The movie makers didn't even bother to make a prop for close-up shots of shark attacks.

If you enjoy shark movies, just like I do, then do yourself a favor and stay well clear of the 2021 movie "Jaws of Los Angeles". I am rating this train wreck of a movie a generous one out of ten stars. This movie simply wasn't worth the time, money or effort.

Actually I will go as far as to say that the movie's cover/poster is actually the best thing about the entire ordeal. And that is just a sad fact.

Not a Shark Film

[turnerbrad-90608 · 1/10 · 5 August 2021]

Disrespectful to the viewer in more ways than you can count.

Amazingly poor

[rholdridge · 1/10 · 2 January 2022]

No story, no plot, no acting, no ending.....just bad. It barely has a premise. The movie has one approach. If we filmed it and it was in focus...we use it. Long pointless shots included of no value. Then just at the point where it should get interesting, it just ends.

Um... don't do it... unless you are stoned

[jerod-07477 · 1/10 · 16 November 2021]

Understand that I LOVE cheesy "B" rated films.

Sadly there really isn't much plot line to this film. It is mostly about overly face lifted actors trying to keep a career I think.

Mostly random acts of boobs being shown, people being lewd, and an occasional shark attack.

Sound quality and cinematography is "C" grade home video quality.

Some of the actors genuine tried to make it work with what they were given, but mostly this movie would make a great drinking game; every time you see someone with obviously bad plastic surgery, take a shot.

Underwhelming cheesy shark film

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 4/10 · 14 July 2021]

Following a series of gruesome accidents, the sheriff of a small beach town comes to find the attacks here have been caused by a vicious strain of mutated sharks attacking anything in the waters and sets out with the determined son of a local land-owner trying to open a new resort to stop the bloodthirsty creatures.

This was a somewhat underwhelming goofy genre effort. One of the better elements present here is the first half which sets up the inner goings-on while featuring the shark attacking the outskirts of their lives. The idea of this one doing a deep dive into the lives of the residents here, from the land-owners' son trying to keep his personal life together as his ex-girlfriend keeps trying to interfere in his new romance, a developer trying to get a project off the ground, and a detective looking to investigate the origin of the shark attacks with the help of a marine biologist to try to track it down based on the creatures' habits serve this one merely to give an idea of what's going on with the residents throughout here. As well, there's also a lot to like here once this moves past the setup into the generally goofy and enjoyable nature of the shark attacks. These are initially kept to brief moments of the unseen shark ambushing victims where they're out in the water like the diver attack or the ambush on the models' photoshoot. That it pulls off the scene of it attacking a hunters' boat without showing the creature itself is quite a feat as the action features the shark taking out the hunters is a fun enough concept, and the crazy finale features some fun scenes of their plan to stop the creatures that are quite enjoyable. Along with the generally over-the-top revelation that comes about in the closing minutes, this manages to get quite a lot to like about it. This one does have some troublesome aspects. The main drawback on display here is the general lack of shark action throughout the film. With the shark itself being shown as a brief glimpse in one sequence until the finale and relying on stock footage until that point, the film can very easily be forgiven for not being a shark film with the focus on the personal issues going on instead. Carrying out endless scenes of padding as characters walk around the city trying to figure out how to stop the creatures is also a major factor here as these scenes go on forever is also a part of the hold-up to keeping the film from letting loose on the shark action as it should. As well, there's also the film's tendency to become obvious about its low-budget origins, not just with the aforementioned padding and lack of shark action but the whole affairs come of decidedly like this was done quickly and illegally which is all to be expected here.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and Violence.

Bottom of the barrel

[cujorocky · 1/10 · 20 August 2021]

The acting is so horrible it's an atrocity. Not just bad acting, but overblown antics, flailing arms, etc. Fat women in bikinis acting sexy (eeew) Not one,... Not ONE actor grades above an F!!! I've seen many bad acted movies but this is the worst. None of these people deserve to be in a movie. Disgraceful. Embarrassment to the movie industry.

Genius idea...

[loyenfox · 1/10 · 17 May 2021]

I can see two stoned "kids" in their 30th sitting in their mum's basement as one of them goes "broooo, I have a great idea. We should go swimming" his buddy replies "brooo, that is a great idea, but we should go to an exotic location" Shortly, they realize that they have no chance of getting into any body of water since neither of their moms will drive them to the local pool.

"brooo", one exclaims, "talk to your dad about giving us money for a movie; it's gonna be a hit". They get up, and go to talk to the father.

As conversation starts,, they realize that they know nothing about shooting movies (besides that one class they took in community college), finding locations or talent.. but since the dad is a divorcee, and is trying to be nice to the idiot kid of his, he gives them a few thousand dollars.

The "investment" is enough only for the consumer level underwater camera kit and snacks.

Writing, filming, editing all is done by these two morons.. because they wasted money on snacks.

Talent scouting is also done by them, and their buddy - the amateur adult movie producer - lends help for close ups.

TL;DR: the movie is terrible, filming is horrible, editing and script are abhorent. I didn't think acting can be THIS bad.. but here we are.

If you're dead set on wasting 75 minutes of your life, stare at the ceiling, pour water into a bottomless bucket, talk to your wall.. those 75 minutes are still going to be more productive.

NIGERIAN COMEDY

[vanmust · 1/10 · 18 June 2021]

I will not characterise this "film" because I'm sure I don't have to persuade anyone about the "quality" of this.... I can only say that the black jealous chick has more potential working in the known series of You Tube comic videos from Lagos Nigeria where an attractive but fat lady is always played upon by a husbad/bf/lover who cheats on her with an equally fat attractive chick but ultimately pays the price in a "Candid Camera" style.....as for the sharks..if they had a legal representative I'm sure they would sue the director.

Who eats who?

[huatajata · 24 November 2021]

They are not the sharks who eat but the starving ladies in bikini eating jaws. This must be a joke. Very funny the old man who looks like Ray Liotta eating a lemmon.

Summer Shark Movie

[mike-7493 · 8/10 · 15 May 2021]

Cool Summer Shark Movie! Great Cast and a very imaginative climax. Give it a watch.

The worst of the worst....

[JCinHB · 1/10 · 25 July 2022]

I LOVE cheesy shark movies, LOVE them.

Sorry, but this movie is just bad all the way around. It wasn't corny, funny, horror, suspenseful or had any redeeming qualities at all. The girls were NOT attractive, seems everyone was covered in tatts, the music was ghetto rap... no plot, a big chunk of the time it was just them filming scenery.... the acting was horrible. Just watch Sharktopus again and have some fun.

😂😂😂😂

[kdoglady · 1/10 · 25 July 2021]

This movie is a joke!!! My sister did better in high school film class! Bad acting (when you can hear it over the music), graphics look like an early 80s movie, lots of random shots of beachgoers that were probably shot on a cell phone.