Monday, July 9, 2012

Shark Night 3D (2011)

A group of friends head to an island for a weekend of fun.  While on the way, they almost get into a fight with a couple of creepy rednecks at a small town store. But the confrontation ends when Sara recognizes one of the rednecks as her ex-boyfriend.

After the group reaches the island, they decide to go water skiing on the lake which signals it's shark time.  That's right, it's a salt water lake with a huge shark which comes right out of the screen in 3D - or it would if we were watching it in 3D.  Instead, things just loom at the camera making no real impression on us at all.

After the shark rips off Maliks arm, the group discovers their cell phones don't work.  As if things can't get worse, the rednecks show up to make sure everyone is okay.  Odd that they've had a 180 degree personality change and are only concerned about the injured.

Instead of everyone getting on the boat and going back to shore for help, only two of the group go off with the rednecks in order to contact the Sheriff and bring back help.  They don't want to move the injured guy for fear of more blood loss.  But I would think it would be your best bet since he's in serious trouble.  Also it's going to take twice as long for help to arrive since they boat has to get to land, find help and come back.

After the rednecks and their friends drive off, that is when Sara decides to relay an incredibly relevent story about how she broke up with the redneck to go back to college.  This resulted in said redneck taking her scuba diving the next day and... oh my god he tried to kill her in a diving "accident."!?!  Uh, maybe she should have told her friends  he tried to kill her before they got on his boat.

Back to the story - Sara managed to get back on the boat. But as she was trying to escape, she accidentally hit the redneck in the face with the propeller.  She brought him to the hospital but never went back to visit and feels guilty as she believes the redneck thinks she did it on purpose.

Holy mother of God!  Are you kidding me?  Why does she feel guilty?  She accidentally hit him after he purposely tried to kill her!  Come on!  And why would she bring her friends here?  How could she let her friends get on his boat?  Someone gives me that back story and I'm passing on the boat and taking my chances of being stuck on the island or eaten by the shark.

Oh movie, why do you taunt me so?  Sadly enough for a movie called Shark Attack, there are not so many shark attacks in it.

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