Megalodon
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Movie Reviews of Megalodon
Movie Review: What a major let-down. The Shark genre needs help.
Summary: 2 Stars
In an era of computer generated graphics technology, a movie like "Megalodon" would be sufficient entertainment for shark buffs like myself simply because of an awesome-scary looking Meg, despite poor acting. Case in point, "Shark Hunter". Unfortunately, the production team at Corbitt Digital never bothered to watch any Discovery Channel "Shark Week" episodes in preparation for "Megalodon". What they gave us was a Meg that makes the mechanical shark from "Jaws" look like the real thing. Shark freaks like me will instantly recognize the unconvincing swimming motions and jaw movement during predation. The average movie-viewer will be turned off by the horrible acting. Leighanne Littrell will be lucky to find work in soft-core porn, Robin Sachs should consider never taking a role that doesn't require an alien costume ("Galaxy Quest") and Al Sapienza is laughable as the hardened veteran who has seen everything under the waves. The story is not a bad one; an almost original twist to the shark-genre, but the terrible graphics and acting place "Megalodon" in the ever-increasing pile of shark flics that try to capture the magic of "Jaws". "Deep Blue Sea" was the last shark movie that flirted with brilliance, and came very close,but "Megalodon" just might make the genre extinct like Megs. Sad days are ahead, my fellow shark lovers.Movie Review: Big Rig, Big Mistake, Big Shark
Summary: 2 Stars
The Worlds biggest and safest oil rig is ready to drill on unstable ocean floor in the Arctic. Bad move. In a scene from Deep Star Six, the drilling opens up a huge cavern that is teeming with life that has gone extinct elsewhere 60-70 million years ago. One life form is a megalodon which leaves the rich feeding ground of the cave for the more barren waters of the Arctic (would you like a bridge with that?). Actually the first shark evidence, a shadow, does not appear until 47 minutes into the movie. The rig and the small cast are now at risk from a powerful predator.
Mistakes abound in this film in unexpected ways. I am used to these film getting the extinction dates wrong but this one got it right. However, it does play heck with a lot of other details. Imagine a body at 5,000 feet down that does not suffer from the pressure. Imagine and elevator and subs that travel the 5,000 feet from surface to ocean floor in a matter of minutes. Imagine a shark that has no internal organs (it is solid like a statue). Imagine planning rescue boats that have to be dropped bow first sixty feet to the water (and have wounded aboard). Watch visitors get invited to a dinner with no food and everyone leaves at the start.
The disk is very barren. Just play movie and a chapter selection. No trailers, commentary, behind the scenes (although it is credited in the credits), no nothing.
Movie Review: Megastinker, Megasucked.
Summary: 1 Stars
I risked this movie after reading comments here and elsewhere. Lets say that though Megalodon has a cool idea (prehistoric shark comes out of a fissure that gets opened up leading to a deeper underwater prehistoric ocean), the movie blows big time. Take the plot, and throw would could have been interesting and suspenseful right into the toilet and replace it with a story that plods along accompanied by actors who come from the "high, I just got into acting and am having fun trying to do this part" school of thought. There are a few interesting characters, and a few people show that they have acting potential, and if you get into the frame of mind where you can deal with all the large amounts of shiny computer game cgi, then there is still the problem that the movie just sucks anyways. It has that awful filmed, ultra low budge cinematography look to it, with lots of things extremely scrunched up real close in the frame (probably to hide the cheap backgrounds, but clearly the cinematography just sucks). The editing is also terrible, with places where you feel like saying yourself "ok, you can cut now, the moment is over, cut already." Do yourself a favor, if your looking for a decent shark movie outside of the jaws series, try Deep Blue Sea, or Red Water. Otherwise, here's to the day when the movie Megalodon becomes extinct. Megalodon Megasucks.Movie Review: Mega Flop
Summary: 1 Stars
I rented Megaladon knowing it was a low budget B movie - but I still had hopes that it might not be bad. After all I've always been really interested in the movies real star - the Carcharadon Megalodon, ancestor of the great white that some scientists believe may have grown to sizes as large as 40 - 100 feet long. Some even believe the ancient shark species may still exist in the deep ocean. Cryptozoology is often the inspiration for plently of bad movies that sound good on paper.
Such is the case here. Megalodon suffers all-across the board. Bad acting, bad shots, bad plot, and poorly concieved diologue. It just sucks in every way it CAN suck. Effects-wise there's more CGI effect in this movie than most low budget movies out there. However most of the effects are noticabley low quality compared to mainstream motion pictures, and look good enough to be a video game cut scene but not quite photo realistic for use in a movie. I lost interest very quickly in this movie and by the time the Megalodon was chewing up a submersible the scene was so horrible I actually found myself laughing at the screen.
The one star Megalodon gets is for the very atractive lead role of Leighanne Littrell :) That and the fact it's impossible to give it 0 stars lol. Megalodon was so bad that even as a TV movie, it would fail misserably.
Movie Review: Don't Bother, It's Sure Not "Jaws"
Summary: 1 Stars
What a lousy movie! Horrible plot, rotten acting, fake-looking shark all equals a total waste of money. "Jaws" this isn't -- not even close. Save your money. Flushing it would make you feel better than buying this movie. I'm a shark-lover, so I thought I might enjoy this movie. It's worse that "Jaws 4" and THAT was pretty bad.