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For Your Eyes Only (1981)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
1981 | Action, Mystery
Highlights include: an excellent action ski scene, a chase through a greek olive or nut farm, scuba diving and the villain trying to feed Bond to the sharks. (0 more)
The best of the older Bond Movies
  
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
1999 | Action, Drama, Horror
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Audio
Acting
Plot
You mess with the sharks, the sharks mess with you.
Contains spoilers, click to show
If you like shark attack movies, you're going to love this one. The graphics are great for its time. The plot is quite engaging, as you understand why they did what they did and agree that you would have done the same thing if you were looking for a cure for degenerative brain disease. L.L. Cool J adds a hot simmer to the character exchanges and the ending is poetic justice for the head scientist, getting eaten by her own creation. My single and only let down from this movie was that I wish there had been more incidences of the sharks using their new intelligence together as a team. Long story short: this movie isn't going to win any emmys/oscars/etc., but it will satisfy your hunger for a bloody shark movie with a legitimate plot.
  
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Deep Blue Sea (1999) in Movies

Feb 20, 2020 (Updated Feb 20, 2020)  
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
1999 | Action, Drama, Horror
Sharks On A Plane
Deep Blue Sea- think of "Jaws", meets "Jurassic Park". What a great cast that is mostly wasted expect for Samuel L. Jackson he is the best in this film. Him and the shark that eats him, oh did i spoil it, its 11 years old at this point. 11 years since it came out in 1999. Thomas Jane, LL Cool J and Stellan Skarsgård are good actors just i think their were wasted in this film. Samuel L. Jackson was the best part of this film, he kills it by a shark.

The Plot: On an island research facility, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) is harvesting the brain tissue of DNA-altered sharks as a possible cure for Alzheimer's disease. When the facility's backers send an executive (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate the experiments, a routine procedure goes awry and a shark starts attacking the researchers. Now, with sharks outnumbering their human captors, McAlester and her team must figure out a way to stop them from escaping to the ocean and breeding.

Dont forger the main theme song "Deepest Bluest" by LL Cool J and you got a film.
  
47 Meters Down (2017)
47 Meters Down (2017)
2017 | Horror
nce the story sinks under the surface, "47 Meters Down" goes so tense, your fears will quickly start to emerge, as the blend of sharks, gore, and claustrophobia, brings some deep-sea-thrills so big
Critic:George Beremov
Original Score: 7.5 out of 10

Read Review: http://cinemarvellous.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/75010-in-deep-2016.html
  
Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
1982 | Adventure, Animals, Bluff, Nautical
Somewhat strategic, somewhat bluffing.
You have meeples on an island that is sinking. You must ferry them on boats to the mainland to save them while avoiding sharks and sea monsters. Each meeple has its own value indicating the number of points it is worth. You place them on the island strategically without your opponents' knowledge.
  
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Darren Fisher (2447 KP) rated Shark's Paradise (1986) in Movies

Dec 12, 2020 (Updated Dec 12, 2020)  
Shark's Paradise (1986)
Shark's Paradise (1986)
1986 | Action, Mystery
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
"Get your damn hands off me or I'll give you a social disease you wouldn't believe...!"
This is a pretty crazy Australian made for TV film. Throw in every film cliché you can mention, some extremely bad 80's fashion, hilariously bad dialogue, speed boats, car chases and you get the Aussie equivalent of Miami Vice with sharks... well almost. It's great fun and there's never a dull moment. Don't expect much shark action though. Apart from a couple of brief scenes at the beginning and the end the sharks are barely in it. Not that it really matters. The idea that a mad genius(?) is holding a city to ransom with the threat of sending 100's of sharks to their coastlines to decimate the public is fun but the loop hole is massive (erm... just stay out the bloody water!). When our leading lady is hanging off the feet of a helicopter it is so glaringly obvious it's a stunt double (twice the size of the actress and more 'blokey' looking). I laughed my ass off all the way through. An added bonus is the soundtrack, featuring the likes of Split Enz, INXS and The Hoodoo Gurus and The Church among others. Trashy fun. Neat!
  
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Dean (6921 KP) rated Piranha 3DD (2012) in Movies

Dec 24, 2018 (Updated Dec 24, 2018)  
Piranha 3DD (2012)
Piranha 3DD (2012)
2012 | Action, Comedy, Horror
1
4.0 (10 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Feed it to the sharks
Really bad and I don't know where the 82min run time is as the credits come up after just 68mins!! The first was quite a good tongue in cheeky, B-movie horror comedy that had some thought put into it. This is a quick cash in, not funny, gory or even sexy considering the title. Avoid it.
  
Grinder (Seattle Sharks #1)
Grinder (Seattle Sharks #1)
Samantha Whiskey | 2016 | Romance
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Ice Hockey & Romance
Kindle recommended Whiskey’s work after I had devoured my way through Helena Hunting’s books on the same theme... Ice Hockey and Romance, and I was not disappointed.

Bailey and Gage have been friends since they were children, and after a previous accident, Bailey stepped in to support Gage by becoming a live-in nanny for his adorable daughter Scarlett.
Great in theory, but the undeniable attraction between Bailey and Gage could not go ignored. But will it be enough for a happy ending?

I really enjoyed reading the first in the Seattle Sharks series, getting to know the sharks and learning the heart warming story of the blossoming passion and love between Bailey and Gage.

The story was wonderfully well written, and the energy and emotions were palpable. I look forward to reading the others in the series.
  
Sky Sharks (2020)
Sky Sharks (2020)
2020 | Comedy, Horror
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Fright Fest kicked off with a film that I absolutely had to see... Nazi zombies and flying sharks? No brainer.

A team of arctic explorers uncover an old Nazi lab that was developing ways to help them conquer the world. The team unwittingly let loose their two most powerful experiments that unleashes a swarm of flying sharks flown by unstoppable pilots.

Despite this having the word "sharks" in the title (and my love of shark films) I do have to be a buzzkill and say that this is not a shark film. I'd happily categorise it in zombie film territory, but the quality is way too good for this to be classified as a shark film. I don't want to take away from these fantastic flying finned devils though, they're brilliant and super happy looking.

It has the ridiculous ideas that make for an entertaining watch. but I can't help but think that a good budget actually had a negative effect. Once you get to a certain level of production value it goes against the nature of the story and "traditions".

With sky based villains you would obviously get something involving airplanes, but from the early action sequence I got heavy Sharknado 2 vibes. I don't want to ruin this bit for you so I'll just say that it's got the requisite amount of scientific impossibilities and graphic violence.

The CGI is a little hit and miss, the sharks are pretty good and I'm convinced have sneaky smiles on their faces, but the zombie aspects are a little ropey whenever they pop up.

When it comes to acting the cast deliver exactly what you'd expect from this sort of film, over the top when needed, dramatic in both serious and ridiculous ways, and I really hope that some of the female cast were appropriately compensated from some of their truly over the top scenes. You expect nudity because that's what these things do, but my goodness did they go to town with it.

Nazi scientists with extraordinary plans is a great storyline, you can take it in so many directions. I can't help but feel that Sky Sharks suffers from over complications. Discovery, accidental release followed by solution... that simple formula is cluttered with a lot of back story that could easily be cut back and made easier to follow, a fair amount seemed to have no purpose.

Even with all of this it's still something daft to enjoy, probably when drunk. I'm not sure if it's for zombie fans or shark fans, it doesn't quite fit in either classification properly but for those who want to free their brains from thinking then it's probably going to work for that.

Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2020/08/sky-sharks-movie-review.html
  
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The Bad Beat (Burn Notice #5)
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
What Sam and Michael think is a simple job of helping out a guy hounded by loan sharks becomes much more complex when they find Russian mobsters are also after the guy. While the climax felt weak, overall the book was still good.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-burn-notice-bad-beat-by-tod.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.