Shark Lake (2015)

Wow! Such a good movie.

the audience applauded

Purely Joyful Movie!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Not a horrible movie. If you can catch it for free, like I did, it's certainly worth a watch. Dolph Lundgren has never been a good actor, not really. He's gorgeous, physical eye candy (even older, as he is now...fine wine and all...and he's certainly aged well) and menacing...even back when he was in his "too pretty to be a man," phase during 'Rocky' ...but a "carry an entire film on his acting ability, alone" actor?Um...NO.You want that hunk to either play a bad guy (at which he excels) or say nothing and just menace and terrify the wits out of audiences with that ice-cold stare he does so well from those intense eyes. He just has little depth as a good guy, so seriously, grow up, people. He did fine as a dad in this film, considering he's not exactly in the Ward Cleaver category of stereotypical dad figures. The sharks were a little silly looking, but I've seen worse. Some of the acting was great, the lead female lacked...badly...and detracted from the film, but not enough to trash the entire movie over.It's still worth a watch. Just watch it for what it is, enjoy oggling Dolph (I certainly did) and don't take it too seriously...and you won't be disappointed.

"Shark Lake" is one of those types of movies where you look at the movie cover or the poster and think "why?". But still, it is a Dolph Lundgren movie, so I decided to sit down and watch it. I did grow up watching his movies after all."Shark Lake" is not Dolph Lundgren's brightest moment in cinema history, not even by a long shot. Actually, I will go as far as to question why he actually did this movie, because it was just such a far slip away from his previous countless action movies, both good and questionable ones.The story in this movie is about Clint Gray (played by Dolph Lundgren), a former criminal trying to do right by his estranged daughter Carly Gray (played by Lily Brooks O'Briant). But when the local lake falls prey to vicious man-eating sharks, single-mom and overzealous police offer Meredith Hendricks (played by Sara Malakul Lane) pick up arms to defend the town and her daughter Carly. But the danger of the sharks and the fate of the dealt cards in her hand leave her crossing paths with her former husband Clint Gray...Right, well there was nothing overly Shakespearian or thespian to this storyline. It is a simple storyline, for sure, but it serves it purpose well enough, because it doesn't really beat around the bush.However, a shark movie needs to have sharks that are realistic and that you actually think of as being a real threat. However, the sharks in "Shark Lake" failed to deliver that, and they were more of a CGI internship project gone straight to DVD.The action in "Shark Lake" was adequate, taking into consideration what kind of movie this is. However, it should be said that you shouldn't get your hopes up here, if you are a fan of Dolph Lundgren in any way, because it wasn't up to level with his usual movies.Having seen this movie, I can now cross it off the list. And I can with all honesty say that I will never be making a return trip to watch "Shark Lake", because it doesn't support more than a single viewing in any way; and actually if you do get through the first viewing then that is an accomplishment in itself.If you enjoy shark movies, stay well clear of "Shark Lake". If you enjoy Dolph Lundgren movies, don't go out of your way to watch "Shark Lake". It is, in fact, a less than mediocre movie experience in every sense of the word.

You have to appreciate Dolph Lundgren's tenacity to make movies, he churns out robust quantity of them in last year alone. Unfortunately, in Shark Lake he seems like just a famous name slapped into the title and poster, while being almost completely isolated from the main plot. The movie itself is appealingly bad, this is the level of sloppy presentation equal to random death scene in telenovela with silly fake shark fin, which admittedly surprising to see outside cartoon.It all goes down in a formulaic monster movie plot, if you haven't predicted it already, there's a lake and shark on it. Cue the montage of silly party girls, stupid death scenes, incompetent authority figure, but wait, it has Dolph Lundgren. However, he's more of a subplot, separated from the rest. It's almost like an average action portion glued to a monster movie.This is pretty disappointing since the best spark the movie has is the simple family drama. No one would form connection to plastic shark, but audience may relate to Dolph Lundgren as the ex-con trying to bond with her estranged little daughter. It is the closest to sincerity on this movie, yet it occurs too little too late.Concerning the actual threat, it's undeniably horrible. The visual is incredibly bad, using cheap editing, poor animation effect and actual fake shark fin. The corpse of mechanical Jaws rolls on its watery grave. One can even see the drop in quality when transitioning from day to night. It looks so fake that it would've worked as parody, yet the movie insists on the gritty dark look, it's a bit sad really.Shark Lake is, by no intention of itself, a parody of Jaws. The brief appearance from Dolph Lundgren can't save it and merely serves as timid advertisement.

I watched the trailer alone. Now right off the bat, its not working for me and this is just on the trailer. Anyone who has visited or lives in Lake Tahoe will know. I'm shocked whoever produced this movie didn't know the facts first before even trying to film this movie. 1) You can't swim in Lake Tahoe in a bathing suit - the water temps are 59 degrees and lower. You start freezing to death after a few minutes.2) Lake Tahoe is a fresh water lake. I didn't know there were such things as fresh water sharks. Sharks are salt water...I could go on, but won't. You get the idea.