The Sci-Fi channel really do love sharks . Hardly a week goes by without the station broadcasting a film featuring sharks . But as the JAWS franchise shows the format is very self limiting . Cut to POV shots of bathers waggling their feet in some water , cut to the surface with someone squealing surrounded by blood and repeat every 15 minutes till the movie ends . I suppose the producers deserve some credit in wanting to make a spin on the story by making a claustrophobic disaster type of movie but unfortunately they deserve more criticism than praise
The problem is there's no realism or internal continuity involved . The plot revolves around a tsunami devastating the California cost which also releases a school very rare type of shark called " the goblin shark " . The tsunami we're told is higher than 100 feet and has caused more " devastation than the Indonisian one in 2004 " That led to 250,000 dead where as this one despite being a hundred feet high still managed to leave a flimsy beach hut standing which is no more than twenty foot of the ground . Fair enough the hut is surrounded by water cutting off the survivors from the mainland but at no point did the water come anywhere near being 100 foot high
The film is full of these type of blunders , many of which are due to a lack of budget . A devastated California city would need tens of millions of dollars to convey realistically so we shouldn't be too harsh in our criticism . We should however be more harsh when the money didn't stretch to make up for a wounded leg . Charchters crowd round as someone whining " My leg , I'm bleeding to death " thereby saving anyone employing a make up artist for the film which is probably summed up with the line of " My looks are the only thing that are important " . Lucky you . The casting director had the exact same thought
The problem is there's no realism or internal continuity involved . The plot revolves around a tsunami devastating the California cost which also releases a school very rare type of shark called " the goblin shark " . The tsunami we're told is higher than 100 feet and has caused more " devastation than the Indonisian one in 2004 " That led to 250,000 dead where as this one despite being a hundred feet high still managed to leave a flimsy beach hut standing which is no more than twenty foot of the ground . Fair enough the hut is surrounded by water cutting off the survivors from the mainland but at no point did the water come anywhere near being 100 foot high
The film is full of these type of blunders , many of which are due to a lack of budget . A devastated California city would need tens of millions of dollars to convey realistically so we shouldn't be too harsh in our criticism . We should however be more harsh when the money didn't stretch to make up for a wounded leg . Charchters crowd round as someone whining " My leg , I'm bleeding to death " thereby saving anyone employing a make up artist for the film which is probably summed up with the line of " My looks are the only thing that are important " . Lucky you . The casting director had the exact same thought