Review of Shark Night 3D (2011) by James C — 14 Jun 2013

When a group of school friends visit the Louisiana bayous for a weekend party, they discover that the water is the most dangerous place to be.

The killer shark genre are a weird breed of movies that, apart from Jaws, invariably end up being very, very bad, but they never seem to go away. Shark Night is an odd entry as (to it's credit) it tries to do something different from the usual story lines that you have seen it the past. The plot moves along at a healthy rate and even though the beginning is a pretty standard affair, things take a bit of a twist about three quarters of the way in, and though it is all becomes quite unbelievable, and not very well explained, it is still quite a fun story. The cast of unknowns all play their roles very well, and you actually kind of care for the generic characters as they are not as distasteful as a lot of other movies out there. The CGI is plentiful and range from the very good Cookie Cutter Sharks to some pretty abysmal blue screen sequences, but the mechanical shark effects are very well handled. All in all, this is still quite a flawed movie, but it is a lot better than a majority of entries in the killer shark genre, and with it's above average production values, it ends up quite a fun way to spend 85 minutes.