Shark Hunter (2001)

Simply A Masterpiece

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I got to see Antonio Sabato, Jr. fresh from his appearance at the Republican convention in this film. It should better be titled Shark Destroyer because that's the mission Sabato is on.You can't really blame him, this prehistoric sixty foot Megladon survivor took his parents from him. Since then Sabato has become an oceanographer, but all that was training the subduing of his particular white whale.After another couple of incidents where this big guy did some serious damage, the last incident to an underwater laboratory, Sabato gets assigned to a submarine where the people there are divided between capturing and killing the big shark. Of course Sabato wants to kill it, but Heather Marie Marsden wants to take it alive. This is a plot we've seen a lot of, most especially in the first version of The Thing. Marsden also a scientist sounds a whole lot like scientist Robert Cornthwaite from that much better film.Think of Moby Dick when you see this. With the script most definitely not written by Herman Melville.

A film that ends the way events like this probably would. Unfortunately, only a movie this low-budget, could afford to do so. The film has such a dry and lifeless look to it. Mostly because of the almost single setting. Submarine bases aren't that interesting with all their greys and blacks. In terms of effects the darkness helps out a lot. We usually get a silhouetted shark and just a section of its face lit up. This emphasizes the sheer scale of the shark, even if we don't get to appreciate it in all its menace. The movie also started off rather cleverly, with old home movies. This is probably the best way to build emotional connections with such a lackluster cast. It helps that they weren't talking. It's all down hill from there. Hokey dialog, boring and pompous "WE'RE SCIENTISTS DAMNIT!" speeches, emotionless relationships, and sheer boredom all follow. Much better films out there, with its biggest crime being, it just wasn't bad enough.

Years after witnessing his parents deaths by a Megalodon, Spencer Northcut is called in to uncover what caused the destruction of an undersea research vessel. Unbeknown to him however and as he is about to discover, the culprit was, yes you've guessed it…….OK so this is obviously rather daft stuff but if you approach it in a relaxed frame of mind it is an entirely harmless, even mildly enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half.Acting and special effects range from OK to pretty damn poor with some rather cringe inducing melodramatics on the acting front and a few decidedly ropey digital fx in places. Special mention must also go to the rather pathetic, obviously cost cutting 'underwater' footage involving divers…….the scenes are simply filmed in a normal studio with little particles of polystyrene blown around the set to represent bubbles etc!!!Still, credit where credits due, the ending in this is admittedly a downbeat surprise and I must admit, I'm a real glutton for shark movies so I'm not going to be overly critical of the shortcomings in this.By no means a classic, and whilst admittedly a million miles away from the big daddy of all shark films, Jaws, if it's a quick ichthyological predator fix you're after, this may well make you smile.

this is one of the worst movies ever There is a scene where they are supposed to be underwater and they are literally walking on land and they added bubbles! The shark is boring and is just this big slow computer generated silly thing. Antonio Sabato is horrible, I mean even worse than normal. How does this guy work? The directing is the worst and there is nothing redeemable in the entire films. I love shark movies and this one just disappoints. I've seen this studios movies before and everything they do has some star on their way down doing bad work. I'd rather see an unknown actor who cares about making a good story.