Blood in the Water (2022) User Reviews

Sink or swim

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 25 July 2022]

A small group of individuals find themselves chained on a winch located at the bottom of a pool with a shark. They are all connected to Henry Sadler (Andrew Rolfe) a crooked lawyer who we eaten in the first scene. They must all confess their crime or die in the pool.

The film was more drama than horror. We see folks going into the water, a shark being released and then we assume the rest. Most of the film is people talking to a speaker overhead and yelling at each other to tell the truth.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. No subtitles.

A very loose relation to Saw

[jimwt66 · 3/10 · 18 October 2022]

The acting was better than expected for this level of movie. The video was bad. It looked like they were using handheld cameras or even phones becuse the coloring was bad.

The shark was kind of lame also. And since when do sharks growl and the people being eaten make no noise? Multiple people eaten by the shark and the water is not red. Getting the shark out of the hole was easy but how did they get the shark back into the little caged area? The pool was also very small to allow the shark to swim around.

The people were all unlikable and you wish they would all just jump in and get eaten. As much as Jaws has taught us that sharks will eat anything, a shark that has eaten 1-2 people will not just attack anything in the water if they are full from previous killings.

This had potential, even if it was limited potential but the shaky handheld cameras or phones was annoying. I am not a fan of shaky video but this was bad with the jumping around and shaky video. It was like the person was out of breath and the camera was moving around as they breathed hard. A shark revenge killing is a bit extreme and would take a lot of resources to capture and build the setup to house it. Steam coming off the pool should have indicated that the water was too hot because sharks live in temperatures at a max of around 85 degrees, though around 70 degrees is the sweet spot. Water that would steam would be too hot.

It was pretty easy to figure out who was behind this once they started dying. Only one of them had no backstory. So there had to be a reason. I suppose this is fine for running in the background but it would not be good if you concentrated on the movie.

Saw meets Jaws apparently.

[Dodge-Zombie · 1/10 · 15 June 2022]

That's an insult to both "Saw" and "Jaws". To be honest it's an insult to "Jaws the revenge" and that's a difficult movie to insult.

First scene a guy tries to cut through a metal shackle with prunning shears. So you already know this is going down hill quickly.

Bad acting, terrible script, horrendous direction and if this movie had an editor it was only in name as they clearly didn't actually do any work.

Dismissed.

Saw with sharks

[MB-reviewer185 · 1/10 · 17 June 2022]

This is the movie Saw meets the movie Jaws, which I do not understand how that would work. But this movie was made, and I do not know why.

The acting is terrible, and the characters are awful. I did not care about what would happen to them and if they will live or not, especially when they are hard to watch.

You barely see the shark and it does not look that great. The whole movie was hard to wat, as in I could not see anything because the movie had bad camera shots, and a tint to the camera that makes it look they turned up the brightness all the way.

When it comes to them being attacked by the shark it turns off the lights and keeps this red light on making it hard to see what is happening. The flashbacks to the characters are filled with slow motion and are drawn out longer than it should be.

Jaws (1975) is a great movie and Blood in the Water (2022) plays out exactly how the movie Saw (2004) plays out. Blood in the Water (2022) has a bad ending that does not make sense and I could not believe that it chose to end in such an anticlimactic way.

Do not watch this movie at all. Go watch Jaws (1975) or Saw (2004) they are both good separately, but not good together.

So dumb it actually is painful to witness...

[paul_haakonsen · 1/10 · 17 June 2022]

Wow. Just wow!

Granted, I must admit first and foremost that I wasn't harboring a single expectation to this 2022 movie from writers Matthew B. C. and Dominic Ellis. Why? Well, the movie's synopsis didn't exactly scream high end movie experience. But still, I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance, and so I did. And this is a shark movie after all.

But as expected, really, then "Blood in the Water" is a bad movie, a really, really bad movie. I mean, if you take "Saw" and throw in a great white shark in a swimming pool, then you have "Blood in the Water". And I am not kidding. Yeah, that was the extend of the writing skills of Matthew B. C. and Dominic Ellis. So director Dominic Nutter wasn't really given much to work with.

The storyline was utter rubbish, as it was essentially just a poor mans watered down version of "Saw", but with an added pool that has a great white shark in it. Man, talk about a lousy concept. And it wasn't made much better with the shark being able to growl all menacingly. Nay, that was just laughable.

The acting performances in the movie were as sluggish and amateurish as the movie itself, so at least that went hand in hand.

This movie is a waste of time, money and effort, so don't even bother. In fact, the movie's cover/poster was actually the best part of the entire ordeal, and the cover wasn't even a proper representation of the contents of the movie.

My rating of "Blood in the Water" lands on a one out of ten stars.

Colorization is so very bad

[Tmeverett69 · 1/10 · 13 July 2022]

If I had to rate each category, it would go like this:

Acting: 7 Color: 1 Special Effects: 0 Plot Twists: 0 Scenery: 1 (the whole movie is a pool) Story Line: 5 (it's been done so many times before)

Worst Shark Movie EVER. Rip off.

[rochfordsimon · 1/10 · 23 June 2022]

Watched this movie on fast forward. 10 mins is all I wasted. Thank god. A Great White Shark in a 20ft indoor swimming pool, in a house. And it's not a comedy 🙄. A who Done it crime film were a great white shark attacks on command.

Film should be called "BS in the Water".

Terrible acting, cinematography, writing, set design, lighting, production etc etc. It's like a bunch of students filmed this movie on their holidays, in their nans house. AVOID.

A generally underwhelming if watchable cheesy shark movie

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 5/10 · 26 July 2022]

After awakening from being abducted, a woman joins others in a special pool where they're forced to reveal secrets they all hold which binds them together that ends up requiring them to be fed to a killer shark if they fail the game, requiring them to work together to find out how to get away.

Overall, this was a rather interesting if flawed genre effort. Among the more enjoyable features here is the film's initial concept of integrating sharks into a highly unusual setup. The melding together of the genres by forcing a group of strangers chained together in one location who are forced to recall details of a crime that tied them together with the shark showing up to kill them off adds a rather dynamic flair to be had here. This is all given a bit more seriousness than it really needs with the clandestine abductions showing off the purposes of the group being targeted and how it all ties together which at the least is interesting. That gives the film a decent setup to hang incredibly cheesy genre attacks on. The premise of this one allows for the rather goofy nature of the struggling victim being overwhelmed and dragged underwater in a swarm of activity that is far more effective than it should be given the use of the prosthetic shark head for the attacks. Their infrequent placement comes off quite nicely to help pump up the running time outside of the arguments that emerge even though that highlights the utterly unimpressive shark prop that gives itself away every chance it can which isn't too big of a deal but is all that holds this one up. There are some big flaws here that hold this one down. The main issue here is the utterly unbelievable and unrealistic scenario which strains credibility to the point of agony. The whole idea of managing to capture a Great White Shark and sneak it into an indoor swimming pool that would exist in a random backyard strains incredulity to a breaking point rarely seen in the genre as this premise is so hard to logically work out and believe that the film is nearly doomed from the start. The pacing is way too uneven with too many scenes of them arguing with each other in between the shark attacks that become dull after a while, and alongside the general cheapness of everything leaves this one a highly underwhelming feature.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

Saw meets Jaws

[fluffchop · 1/10 · 10 December 2022]

Saw says hello Jaws, what big teeth you have. All the better to eat you with Saw. So yeah they're trying to capture something with Saw and Jaws like tendencies. Those two movies are orders of magnitude better than this film. I mean Jaws has so much to offer as a movie even without the actual shark attack parts. The build up, the story, the characters, it's all there. Jaws is a really classic movie that should be experienced several times to fully appreciate it. The Saw movies are quite extraordinary in what they did too. Not quite up there with Jaws but as horror movies they were pretty good movies. You find yourself going hell yeah when someone gets it. It makes you feel something, even if it's only blood lust and revenge fantasies. This movie Blood in the Water is just appalling bad. It's an insult to Jaws and Saw to give it the tag line Jaws meets Saw or whatever it is they're claiming. It's dull as dishwater with some really bad acting. People just recite their lines with zero emotional content included. There are sections of swearing which do nothing to add drama or grit. It's like they couldn't think of coherent sentences to write so they filled it up with swearing. I just found the movie really lacking in any merit. There is nothing enjoyable about the film. It's really not worth your time to watch this film.

Best shark movie ever!!!

[robinberge · 10/10 · 26 June 2022]

This is the best shark movie ever made!

Just love it from the start till the end.

My hair is raising all over my body, really goosebumbs-movie!

And remember folks, turn up the volume!!

Thank You, Zara.

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 22 October 2022]

Really bad torture/captive Saw type movie cept its in a pool that has a shark that swims around in it. Pretty stupid. Bad dialogue. Really not a lot to offer.

And IMDB has now made it so a review has to have 600 characters before it can be entered. I really don't expect that to last very long because people are sure to complain about it. But until that happens I guess we have to expect reviews to be long winded and sometimes about absolutely nothing to do with the show in question.

I think this might have been yet another Gravitas Ventures movie made for IFC but I could be wrong. Definitely no more than a 2/10.