0.5/5
Stars
7 college friends Nick (Dustin Milligan),
Dennis Crim (Chris Carmack), Beth (Katharine McPhee), Gordon (Joel David
Moore), Malik (Sinqua Walls), Maya (Alyssa Diaz) and Sara Palski (Sara Paxton)
head to Sara’s lake house in the Louisiana Gulf for a weekend getaway. The girls
are looking forward to have a wild time, while the guys want to get laid.
However, they don’t know that the lake adjoining the house is infested with
deadly sharks. Malik, for instance, gets his arm ripped off while he is water
skiing. The group soon realizes that there’s not one but fifteen species of
sharks moving around in the lake. Malik’s girlfriend, Maya, gets killed by a
shark and many such incidents follow. With their lone boat destroyed, while the
group was trying to get away from the sharks, and no phone signals, will the
group get out of the place alive?
The story was just a trifle better than the
other ‘deadly sea animal against ‘hip’ collegians’ sagas, but that is no
consolation. There is more story, for instance, than skin-show or
blood-and-gore. However, the acting department falls short miserably. Even the
dialogues are lazily written. There is a big twist in the second half, but then
it’s followed by even more bizarre twists. The director David R. Ellis promises
a ‘watchable’ film in the first half, but leaves us shell-shocked with the
inexplicable end. There’s a rap song in the end, which is 10 times more
ridiculous than the rest of the film put together.
Bunch of college students pack their
swimwear and head to one of their friend’s lake house for a weekend getaway. Problem
- The Lake is infested with deadly sharks. Be it the acting,
story, screenplay, graphics or the dialogues – everything was juvenile about
the film, notwithstanding the actors themselves. Better than ‘Piranha 3DD’, but
even that film isn’t a ‘benchmark’ so to speak!
7 college friends Nick (Dustin Milligan),
Dennis Crim (Chris Carmack), Beth (Katharine McPhee), Gordon (Joel David
Moore), Malik (Sinqua Walls), Maya (Alyssa Diaz) and Sara Palski (Sara Paxton)
head to Sara’s lake house in the Louisiana Gulf for a weekend getaway. The girls
are looking forward to have a wild time, while the guys want to get laid.
However, they don’t know that the lake adjoining the house is infested with
deadly sharks. Malik, for instance, gets his arm ripped off while he is water
skiing. The group soon realizes that there’s not one but fifteen species of
sharks moving around in the lake. Malik’s girlfriend, Maya, gets killed by a
shark and many such incidents follow. With their lone boat destroyed, while the
group was trying to get away from the sharks, and no phone signals, will the
group get out of the place alive?
This is the sensible and more realistic
part of the story. The second half, of course, offers insanity in various
doses. The characters are very predictable. You
have the typical nerd, the lover boy, the Casanova, the desperate guy, and
three gorgeous girls. Even the casting was quite clichéd, and the acting
followed suit. The performances were forgettable, mildly put. The ‘stars’ of
the film try too hard to emote.
You would’ve still forgiven them for their performances had there not been
that one ‘after-credits’ song. If you do watch the film, don’t miss this song. It
appears after the credits.
The story was just a trifle better than the
other ‘deadly sea animal against ‘hip’ collegians’ sagas, but that is no
consolation. There is more story, for instance, than skin-show or
blood-and-gore. However, the acting department falls short miserably. Even the
dialogues are lazily written. There is a big twist in the second half, but then
it’s followed by even more bizarre twists. The director David R. Ellis promises
a ‘watchable’ film in the first half, but leaves us shell-shocked with the
inexplicable end. There’s a rap song in the end, which is 10 times more
ridiculous than the rest of the film put together.
If the indications haven’t been strong
enough, here it is, you’re better off staying away from the ‘Shark Night 3D’. (First Posted in MSN)
Shivom
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