Shark Waters (2022) User Reviews

Don't waste your time.

[jweditor-57663 · 2/10 · 11 September 2022]

Thus is a C- at best movie. Rented it based on a 7.9 review. It plays more like an amateur film. Shark scenes are obviously computer generated. There is no real plot and what us there is beyond predictable. Whoever gave this a 7.9 must have done it as a joke. The scenes jump without connection. It's so bad it's almost comedic. The characters never seem to learn from one mistake to the next. Really, don't waste your money or time on this movie. People go out in a small rubber dingy to rescue the guys daughter when they know there are multiple sharks attacking. They call coast guard as an emergency and are put on hold. A helicopter with their coordinates can't find them. They are resting in a sand bar and still get attacked. A girl gets bit abd they wrap it but later when they stand her up the wrap isn't there. They also tell her to keep weight off her leg and she does it on the wrong leg!

It's Terrible, but Enjoyable if You're in the Right Mood

[jc74868 · 3/10 · 18 April 2023]

The other reviewers are correct, it's bad. But for people, like me, who enjoy certain kinds of bad movies, it's a gold mine.

After the first shark attack scene, it goes on tediously for a bit, and I almost gave up on it. There is a lot of pointless dialogue, over explaining of things, etc... but if you can stay with it, it's got a lot of laugh out loud moments.

There is a non-sensical plot, TERRIBLE acting, writing and dialogue, laughable accents, baffling and unrealistic actions, attempts at touching & sentimental scenes for characters the audience cares nothing about, amateurish CGI, etc...

It's a real hoot if you're in to the that sort of thing. If you're wanting an actual "good" shark attack film, you should definitely avoid though.

Yeah, just another run-of-the-mill shark movie...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 27 January 2023]

I have to admit that I am sucker for shark movies, despite the fact that 95% of all shark movies are questionable and dubious movies at best. But I still opt to give a shark movie the benefit of the doubt. And such it was with the 2022 movie "Shark Waters".

And I had never heard about writer M. L. Miller's "Shark Waters" movie before getting the chance to watch it. And seeing that dreaded logo pop up on the screen, you know which one I am talking about, The Asylum, I have to admit that my expectations went down a couple of notches for the movie. Yet, I still opted to watch it.

Director Jadon Cal didn't exactly deliver an innovating shark movie. If anything, then "Shark Waters" was a pretty generic movie at best, even for a shark movie. But hey, at least it had sharks. Well, a combination of dubious CGI sharks and some stock footage of sharks. Again, something that is a common occurrence in shark movies, isn't it?

The dialogue in "Shark Waters" was rather shoddy, and there were some genuinely toe-curling moments throughout the 85 minutes that the movie ran for.

The acting performances in "Shark Waters" were fair enough. Some questionable performances, but also some adequate performances. But truth be told, a movie such as this would be astounding if it had stellar performances.

I mentioned the poorly animated CGI sharks, and mix that with some equally poorly animated blood effects in the water, and you know what you're in for when you sit down to watch "Shark Waters".

My rating of "Shark Waters" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Avoid At All Cost

[kgpcynnt · 1/10 · 16 January 2023]

I fairly certain this film was directed by the dead shark from Jaws!

Filmed on a Nokia 3310 with a script supplied by a dyslexic cat this is possibly the worst film I've ever had the misfortune of watching. Sadly I stuck with it until the end just to see how woeful the ending was. I made that sacrifice for you people so you don't need to. The interaction between the cast feels as though they recorded their lines on different days in different countries. The first 2 characters to die probably fed themselves to the sharks rather than live with the shame of having been cast in this total shocker.

Every Example of How NOT to Make a Movie!

[rebeltaz-18705 · 1/10 · 21 May 2023]

Oh. My. Gosh. This has to have been the worst movie I've ever seen. And I once saw a movie where piranhas were jumping out of the river and eating helicopters. I once saw a movie where ghost sharks were coming out of office water coolers and eating people. Yeah... it's worse than those combined.

The "special effects" - the sharks, the blood in the water... everything - are completely cgi. Not the good chi, either. I'm talking 1980's Commodore C64 graphics cgi. Utterly terrible.

The story arc is beyond disbelief. At the start of the five hour cruise, the first mate hands the captain the radio. I don't mean portable handheld ham radio. I mean 1970's CB radio. The kind you mount in a bracket in a car. With the power leads dangling and no antenna. Not sure why that wasn't already mounted and wired into the ship, but... ok.

Then, when the sharks attack, how does a shark get "caught up in the propeller" of an inboard motor? To the point that it stalls the engine? OK... whatever. So what would you do? Me? I'd use the radio (that one would hope is hooked up by this point) to call for help. Nope. Not once does anyone ever do that. Although, at one point halfway through the attack, the captain does claim that the "signal is spotty." Yeah... whatever. OK, fine... you can't use a marine radio to call for help five miles from shore. Sure. So use a cellphone. Nah.. the first mate didn't bring his (is there anyone alive who doesn't have their phone glued to their hand?) and I guess the captain doesn't own one? The girl has one... but it doesn't get signal. Until later in the movie when it does. Oh, but it has a low battery. So while she's talking to her dad (remember on a phone with a low battery that could die at any time) she d...r...a...g...s out their situation as slowly as humanly possible. Then (remember earlier the cellphone didn't have signal) she takes the cellphone inside the cabin below the deck. Because it's a well known fact that that you get a much better signal inside surrounded by metal than standing out in the open air. :eye_roll:

So help is on the way. Kinda. They have a chopper in the air, but the radio guy (who knows the exact co-ordinates because the girl give them to her dad (no clue where she pulled those from, but ... ok)).. the radio guy tells the helicopter pilot once he sees them, he'll give him the location. Let that sink in. "Once you see them, I'll tell you where they are." Sure....

In the meantime, dad can't wait on the Coast Guard to do what Coast Guards do... so he phones up his friend who wrangles up a boat for them to go rescue the survivors. Yeah... the "boat" that they take out for a five mile jaunt out into the ocean is... an inflatable raft with an outboard engine. Totally realistic. Oh... but it gets even better.

Because by this point the fishing boat has beached itself on a sand bar because it was taking on water (that for some reason was rushing across the deck at one point, despite the fact that the deck was still feet above the water line... and despite the fact that the water only covered the deck at one point in the movie and never again). So they use this little life raft with an outboard motor to pull this big ace fishing boat off the sand bar. Yeah... if you're still watching at this point, you're just going to accept whatever bull thew throw your way.

There are so many thing wrong with this that I cannot possibly even begin to mention them all. Just trust you. This is not t he movie that you are looking for.

Frustratingly boring

[ptrsknnr · 1/10 · 29 January 2023]

Bad acting.....bad cgi......bad script.....I was sick of the captain narrating everything that was happening.... I was hoping he would die as his acting was soooo bad...all the characters sound like they are reading from cue cards.....only 6 people get killed.....80 mins of wasted time and money making it I wish someone would make a superior shark movie..maybe a remake of JAWS with superior CGI would be better?

With all todays technology these cheap crappy films should not be made Dont know why I bother with these B movies ...guess I am a glutton for punishment and dont learn lessons from the past.

Not the best, also not the worst

[nathanjamesemerson · 3/10 · 9 September 2023]

What's up with the fathers who comes to their daughters rescue in Asylum movies?

First there was Michael Madsen in SHARK SEASON who was delightfully hilarious and dreadful with his decisions, not too mention his acting

Now there is Jim Fitzpatrick in SHARK WATERS

What kind of father who knows his daughter has been attacked by a large numbers of sharks, comes to rescue her in the smallest rubber boat know to man?

I know that's in the script but come on. I laughed out loud when I saw him rock up with his befuddled looking friend in it. And what makes it funnier is you can clearly see it's being towed during filming as the motor is not even turned on and making waves

The acting is pretty decent besides Jim Fitzpatrick, who was absolutely dreadful in this movie. I have seen him in other things and he was great. Like Michael Madsen in SHARK SEASON, he decided to not even bother

The CGI effects are as bad as to be expected. The blood in the water effects are truly horrendous and hilarious to see

Other then that, it wasn't the worst hour and a half I spent.

This was the worst effects

[indypunk9 · 1/10 · 26 May 2023]

This wasn't even believable. The first scene looks so fake, not in your cheesy normal shark movie unbelievable. They don't even have the CGI over the person, poor effects. The dialogue is bad. Spent all money on location, not much else. Just a lot of staring at the blood in water, its so boring and just bad. I can't even with the acting, these were bad actors. Stuck on a boat, most scenes are in shallow water, not believable , dude kills a giant shark with a stick... and then just hangs in water with more sharks. I am avid shark movie fan, I watch them all so you don't have to. Say no to this train wreck.

Absolutely horrible

[swedish_lioness · 1/10 · 25 November 2023]

I love sharks, but I still enjoy a good shark movie. This movie was filmed almost 50 years after Jaws, so you'd expect good (or at least decent) graphics. But no. The graphics are so bad they're laughable. And I'm sorry to say the acting isn't any better. So, is there ANYTHING redeeming about this movie? Only one thing that I can think of. Unlike Jaws, Shark Waters will not be making anybody fear sharks and it certainly won't keep anyone out of the water. Shark Water is a spectacular FAIL in every single way a movie can be. It's so laughable, it's not even funny. So, don't waste your time looking at it. All that will come from watching Shark Waters is that you will have wasted nearly 90 minutes of your life that you will never get back...

Ok

[knezevicmina-67427 · 5/10 · 24 July 2023]

A movie as all movies about sharks. Predictable, but not that bad. They are all the same to me. The actors act well, but the idea of little rescuing boat was too ridiculous. The helicopter couldn't find them despite the coordinate. Falling from the boat was also ridiculous. They remembered to use the phone and call her dad after two hours, and after that the tourist was killed by the sharks. I don't understand why the producers continue making new movies about the sharks when everything possibile has bene already done. They are all the same. In all these movies sharks act likes humans, want to revange, follow a certain boat/ship and attack It. They are not humans, they eat if are hungry, they don't revenge and don't attack just like that.

A highly enjoyable genre effort let down by a few minor drawbacks

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 9/10 · 18 July 2023]

Taking a special fishing charter, a woman joins a group of friends on a boat offering a pleasure fishing experience, but when they encounter a rogue swarm of sharks that strand them in the ocean to take them out one by one forces her to rely on long-forgotten survival skills to survive the situation.

This was a pretty decent and enjoyable killer shark film. One of the better elements present here is the film's decision to include multiple sharks in a typical storyline usually featuring just a solitary species. The main setup of this one isn't that original, where a group of individuals are stranded in the middle of the ocean after an accident and must try to make it back to shore while being stalked by a man-eating shark, serves as nothing more than a means to get the victims out into the water to be hunted down due to the overuse of the trope in recent times. This time, there's a whole school of sharks instead of just a single rogue species which makes for a fun enough diversion to everything that keeps this one interesting enough. That lets the film's incredibly fun and graphic attack scenes have a highly enjoyable cheese factor to them. Starting with the opening attack on the swimmers on their jetski where the creatures rip them to pieces in spectacular fashion, it's a fantastic way to start things which is the kind of enjoyably cheesy energy that carries over into the other attacks here. The big sequence of them swarming the boat during their innocent fishing excursion and taking out the victims the way they do is a fun enough sequence where it not only features the cheesy swarming sequences but also demonstrates the creatures are smart enough to form a game-plan for attacking the boat. This is repeated several times over the course of the film to great effect each time to help build some tension each time they get knocked into the water so it all adds together into a generally fun and cheesy effort. There isn't much that holds it back but it does have some minor flaws. One of the biggest drawbacks here is the film's middle segment where the group tries to survive the elements and their wounds rather than deal with the sharks. Since the creatures are known early on, it gives this a fine pace with them being stranded by the attack quite early on which causes some underwhelming factors here in the middle where it focuses more on the effects of previous attacks than generating new ones. As none of this really serves much with the group going through the various means of trying to survive rather than horror attacks, it can sputter at times even if not slowing down completely, and with the usual issues with its CGI work also popping up are the film's main drawbacks.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

It's pretty funny

[fluffchop · 5/10 · 30 May 2023]

How many ways can people fall of a boat into the water? Well if you've ever wondered that this is the movie for you! Just when you thought you couldn't escape a school of hungry sharks in a rubber boat, oh my god they do just that. The movie is ridiculous throughout. At least the chick is nice to look at. The sharks seem to be all CGI and cheaply done. I guess we should expect this from an Asylum release. The plot seems to be that a bunch of people fall into the water where sharks are waiting for them. I can't think of anything else that happens. They have a Mexican Coast Guard because it's Cabo. The helicopter pilot seemed to be confused about the search area. A small can of gas and a flare gun can blow up a big boat with a big explosion and kill all the sharks. Two people can row a boat this size fast enough to land it on a sandbar. You get the idea. Despite these shortcomings it's not a terrible movie. I give it a 5/10 for trying. It's pretty funny.

I've watched worse.

[okpilak · 3/10 · 9 December 2023]

Seeing it was from Asylum, I lowered my already low expectations. The biggest problem was not just the script, as it is very generic and farfetched. The characters were somewhat likeable, so you do care who got killed next. The real problem was in the execution. Donna falls overboard, and her boyfriend Wyatt get ahold of the throttle, and gets a shark tangled in the prop. But a scene from underwater shows no sharks near the props. Wyatt then jumps in the water to go mano-a-mano to kill a shark, which is not good idea. The ship's radio is knocked out, but Lucia has her phone, but naturally the battery is almost dead. But she got a call to her father, and was able to give the exact location of where they were. They start taking on water, the boat being hit by the sharks, but while there is water on the deck, apparently none below. In water filled with aggressive sharks, two of the rescuers come out in a rubber dinghy. The captain and first mate were likeable, so I do give it three stars. But only barely. But this is a low budget shark movie, so one is not expecting much from the film, and at least it is short.