Roboshark (2015)

Very well executed

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Like most of the crazy shark movies in this some bizarrely sizable sub-genre, Roboshark is a concept searching the seas for a plot to justify its existence. So, from a hasty robotising of an innocent Great White, we quickly get to the shark rampage, with our robot fish effortlessly destroying a nuclear submarine before turning its teeth on Seattle. The various human characters just tend to turn up and stare (although Matt Rippy and Nigel Barber just go for it and have fun with their roles). As said, the plot of the film really makes no sense as the Roboshark generally just causes mayhem and eats humans aplenty (and destroys sewage plants), but then suddenly goes all E.T. (quite literally) and bonds with young melody via her social media account, who then implores the military to lay off their attacks because her new mechanical friend is, well, friendly. As the film liberally cites other movies (Dr Strangelove, Close Encounters, E.T. and Sharknado), nothing is very serious, but that still leaves the issue of a film that really makes little sense beyond its alien-created-killer-shark-running-amok concept (with a little social media addiction commentary thrown in, but if you are going to use onscreen messaging gimmicks, you need to make the messages a little more legible for the viewers). As such, the silliness and static quality of some scenes can become tiresome at times, and the issue of rival broadcast journalists fighting for the Roboshark scoop is not exactly thrilling. Finally, that the narrative is not always magnetic is perhaps evident in the times when I found my mind wandering to unanswered questions that the film raises: Given that the Roboshark eats a number of people, what happens to them? As the Roboshark is a robot, one would presume that there is no digestive activity going on, so are the victims always inside the shark? If so, are they still alive? If not, is there a limit to how many people the Roboshark can eat since the bodies will just clog up the machinery at some stage? If it is a robot, why does it eat people in the first place? Or is it a cyborg shark, thus retaining some organic material and functions? I really want the answers to these mysteries!

ROBOSHARK is a particularly stupid monster flick from the SyFy Channel, with a premise so idiotic that the director has no choice but to make this an all-out comedy. Unfortunately, it's completely unfunny, so much so that it's difficult to sit through. A shark eats a UFO (!) and transforms into the titular menace while the military run around and try to figure out a way to stop it. The whole film is full of mannered, over the top line delivery and the dialogue really is the pits, trying to be hip with modern society references and even a little self-referencing but failing in the attempt. Needless to say, the CGI effects are among the worst you'll see.

Worst movie I have seen.... Omg porn movies have better acting and story line. Don't waste your time with this or you will be wishing you had those minutes back in your life. Poor graphics, acting, story line...what more can I add... Nothing that's the whole movie. 1 scene where the military enters the mall to shoot roboshark they ALL stop and the store locator at the center of the mall like they are searching for some special store.... Let's see there is a metal shark swimming around the mall, maybe they should go where the people are fleeing from.You could use this movie as a teaching tool on what not to do....

action packed, great acting, great storyline... RoboShark is by far the best movie of 2015. As good as, or even better than the God Father; Highly recommend! ***required text sorry**action packed, great acting, great storyline... RoboShark is by far the best movie of 2015. As good as, or even better than the God Father; Highly recommend! action packed, great acting, great storyline... RoboShark is by far the best movie of 2015. As good as, or even better than the God Father; Highly recommend! action packed, great acting, great storyline... RoboShark is by far the best movie of 2015. As good as, or even better than the God Father; Highly recommend!