Megalodon
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Movie Reviews of Megalodon
Movie Review: Meh....
Summary: 3 Stars
MEGALODON is a so-so monster movie that starts out badly, but starts getting better once the titular giant shark finally shows up. Unfortunatly, the titular giant shark shows up when about 60% of the film is already over. A drilling operation in the arctic ocean releases a giant prehistoric shark. Check it out if you get bored one day and need to kill some time.Movie Review: I've seen clips
Summary: 3 Stars
When I heard the name Megalodon I was excited. I've seen clips of this movie on Youtube.com and i'm like wheres the blood? I have to admit the shark looks good but I dont see any blood. The scene where that guys jumps in the water and Megalodon eats him, there wasn't any blood. When those people were in that raft and got eaten there wasnt anything gore.Movie Review: ENJOYABLE B MOVIE! GOOD CGI SHARK!
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok ok...it's not JAWS! Hell it isn't even JAWS 2! However it was a short fun movie with a good plot and an excellent CGI shark. What you need to expect is some bad acting by some, mixed with good acting by others. My biggest dissapointment was how little the shark is in the movie. It appears halfway through but when it does the movie is alot of fun.Movie Review: The thing about shark movies....
Summary: 3 Stars
...is that you can never tell if it's good without seeing it. It may sound good and turn out to be some cheesy "Jaws" rip-off. I'm going to give it three stars because Jaws 2 was the last semi-decent shark movie. (Deep blue sea was okay.) I sure hope I won't have to watch the same three shark movies over and over again.Movie Review: IT'S THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR, CHARLIE
Summary: 2 Stars
Quick... what's not in widescreen and has no special features? That's right - MEGALODON! SIXTY FEET OF PREHISTORIC TERROR - or so claims the box art. This film may be about a shark, but the production is all about FRANKENSTEIN. Seen JAWS? How about THE ABYSS, ALIEN, REPTILICUS, DEEP BLUE SEA, DEEP STAR SIX or LEVIATHAN? Then you've seen most, if not all, of MEGALODON. It's all here - the high tech multi-billion dollar drill site, a small, but the "best at what they do" crew, the ill timed major storm (snow and ice), an ill crewman, a lost world filled with lost fish stuffed with lost Magalodons, the standard crew roundtable scar sharing scene, a spunky blond girl reporter and her husky semi-comic cameraman. Tiny one man (one woman) subs, a helicopter crash, several "tragic" deaths all capped off with a whiz-bang explosion at the end which solves most (but not all) of the problems. MEGALODON takes no chances by leaving nothing to the imagination. It simply takes no risks - which is odd since it tries so hard to move in another direction all the time. There's a good story here blocked by a very large shark. The Magalodon doesn't come into view until halfway through the film and up until then you may find yourself wondering when they're just going to get on with it - but once the shark does arrive, does get into frame - you begin to realize that there was something more building here.
We've seen the destruction of the environment used time and again in these kinds of films - it's a backdrop. It's something for the creator and builder of the worlds biggest and deepest oil rig to ravage and lay waste to - but here, the head of the COLOSSUS is actually a pretty good guy trying to provide the world with the fuel it needs. When they stumble upon the lair of the Megalodon there is no talk of drilling for more oil - they all are taken by the wonder of finding a LOST WORLD. It almost seems as if the story might breakaway here and follow a different direction. But it never does - the shark swims in, knocks things about, knocks things over, breaks through things, and then gets blown to bits. We skip into a THREE MONTHS LATER, get our CODA, then our STINGER that there is not one... but two, perhaps more Megalodons now loose in the world's oceans. Nifty - but dull.
There a TON of unanswered questions, and by the end you know the movie has cheated you (can anyone explain why the earthquakes were needed in this film? Also, was the anchor cable drilled into the ocean floor ever going to break? - they cut back to it at least three times after each quake and I kept waiting for it to snap and the COLOSSUS to tip over - never did). MEGALODON is what it is - full screen, ready for cable, jammed with a few nifty ideas and stuffed with off kilter CGI (the subs looks fake - but look clean, while the Megalodon itself looks and acts almost exactly like a plastic tub toy shark) effects. Not the best, not the worst - not JAWS or any of the rest...it's MEGALODON, and it's available for sale or to rent.