Film Shark Attack

[Mariam Obregon]

SharkAttack is a 1999 television action thriller film by Lionsgate that first premiered on HBO directed by Bob Misiorowski and starring Casper Van Dien, Jenny McShane and Ernie Hudson.[1] In a once tranquil African fishing village, a marine biologist searches for answers when his friend becomes a victim in a series of brutal shark attacks.

When marine biologist Steven McKray learns that a friend died in a mysterious shark attack in South Africa, he decides to find out what really happened. Upon arriving in the village, he meets Lawrence Rhodes, a local hotel owner, and scientist Miles Craven, who informs Steven of the mysterious increase in shark attacks in the area. When Steven teams up with his late friend's sister for a fact-finding dive, they make a surprising discovery.

Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com gave it 2/5 and called it "hilariously bad (and therefore entertaining) Z- grade shark horror".[2]Michael Dequina at TheMovieReport.com was critical of the film saying "the title takes a back seat to some boring conspiracy mumbo-jumbo".[3]

Now, bearing in mind that my favourite film is Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, it is obvious I can enjoy a film on its merits while ignoring blatant inaccuracies or dodgy accents, etc. In truth, there were too many in this film to look past.

The film opens with a team of marine biologists out in the ocean tracking sharks. Unsurprisingly, this being a shark movie, they meet a grizzly end with just one making it out of the water alive. Bear with us.

It is suggested that there is a shark in the Seine. The sole surviving marine biologist from that fateful trip (Sophia), is called upon to help out, as it turns out her old nemesis is lurking in the waters of the French capital.

Despite further incidents, including one where 12 people are killed and multiple people are injured, all of which would no doubt have been recorded on mobile devices and uploaded to social media, the Mayor of Paris ploughs ahead with the race.

Despite some ambitious plans to stop the shark, which it now turns out is asexual and can reproduce on its own at an unprecedented rate, and its offspring, those plans fail. Unsurprisingly, the sharks then attack the triathlon centrepiece.

Even though you have already needed to turn your brain off to get to this stage of the film, it descends even further into farce when the army shooting at the shark while it tucks into the triathletes, also inadvertently hit some unexploded World War Two shells, causing the film to go from shark/horror to full on disaster movie.

Paris is now ruled by the sharks, who now inhabit the flooded metro. During the end credits, it is suggested that these new shark species spread all over Paris/ the Seine and then go on a global tour, taking over the waterways in London, New York, and Bangkok!

There are moments of real tension, especially at the start, and the acting is believable until the city officials are introduced. If you really, and I mean really, are stuck for what to watch after finishing your latest series, then it could help fill a couple of hours.

Shark Week has done it again with their Shark of Darkness nonsense. This show goes after everyone, from the whale watching industry, to shark cage diving, to South Africa as a country, and literally broke my heart to watch.

I am a Zoologist specialized in behaviour, and have just completed my M.Sc. from the University of Cape Town studying the anti-predator tactics of Cape fur seals in Shark Alley, Geyser Rock, South Africa. Not once did I meet the researchers Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine features, because they do not exist. They are actors. However, Discovery Channel has done a bit of googling and came upon our real great white shark wound healing research.

I was very interested in the story tonight on discovery and I found no evidence supporting anything they said. Dates, locations, facts, numbers, and so many other things that were said has no info to back it up!! Very disappointing!!!

The sonar is what got me. They never saw him because he was still and vertical right? He would have had to swim into the sonars view first before he stopped and turned vertical. Yet nobody saw him on the way in? Insults my intelligence.

Wow this is my first time ever watching shark week, and I was really excited while watching the show. That was until I tried to do some research on it this morning. I am really disappointed that one of my favorite channels would put stupid shows like this on. I want to see real facts and videos of sharks. Not this crap. Very very disappointed Discovery!

What I discovered on Discovery was similar to The War of the Worlds fake radio broadcast by Orson Welles. At least that broadcast had a disclaimer at the beginning. I always thought that Discovery channel was a legitimate educational channel. I guess not.

The whole program was a fear mongering production. Its odd since shark week seems so adament about peotecting sharks but so quick to fuel peoples fear and mistrust of them by showing countless shark attack survivor stories and creating fake shows about an unstoppable super shark hungry for humans

Thank you for that detailed explanation. I was looking forward to watching the documentary but based on your very factual report I will now not be watching. Appreciate you taking the time to put this out there.

I am done watching Discovery channel. With the mermaid junk, the megalodon farce and now this. I came in part way through the show and thought it was real for about 20 minutes, but not anymore. (Something about it taking hours for a rescue ship to pull a few people from the water was the first clue, then the shark misinformation.) There is a real problem with the destruction of sharks by fear, fishing or for their fins by people in Asia. Discovery channel no longer has any credibility and I will not be watching it anymore. Great job Discovery channel execs. I am sure that someone was promoted because of short term ratings increases, but the long term damage to your name brand will sink you.

If Discovery wants people to believe their shows they really shouldnt use actors that have been in several movies. Like the guy Boyd Roe I mean(mark elderkin). Who is in the movie Dark Tide with Halle Berry. And a few other movies. DISCOVERY show real sharks docs.

Ms. Wcisel, thank you for your article on this ridiculous show. I started watching it but quickly figured out it was another Megladon type show. What is wrong with discovery and animal planet too, are they both run by the same morons? One is named for animals and shows no animal shows any longer and the discovery channel shows this garbage. I have a feeling that they are going to be making a sad discovery soon. That they have no more viewers. Their next show can be called Cancelled, Wrath of the Viewers.

I have filmed great white sharks off California for many years. I never have seen a shark larger than 20 feet.

Submarine shark ranks up there with Spinal Tap, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind as Fakeumentry films. I laughed the whole time.

Unbelievable. If we wanted to watch a movie, we would have. We started questioning it when EVERYONE was good looking lol. I had just been saying how the jaws outlook is no longer, and people are now curious and excited about sharks. I am so disappointed in the discovery channel.

same here, i was all into it crunching on my doritos and gulping down my ginger ale. got really hooked when i did find one video on youtube about the boat sinking. then, i started to do more research and nothing was coming up. then i thought, this is too much like blair witch and why would families give permission of their family members being devoured by a shark to be shown on t.v.? very, very disappointed.

It was obvious rather quickly that discovery had once again fed us another ridiculous B.S. Story.

Like the Megladon B.S. and the phony laughable Mermaid story last year Discovery has once again proven itself to be fraudulant and has lowerd its standards of providing fact based real life documentaries. What a shame and a waste of time.

I have quite become fascinated with sharks and once considered wanting to study them. This was a huge disappointment for me, as I really want real documentaries with true facts. Stuff like where Jeremy Wade caught a Greenland shark is much better than this. Plus, little is known about Greenland sharks, and discovery should spend more time on documenting stuff like that than making up things to lead people astray. Especially the young audiences. This false documenting needs to stop.

Urgh, just so many things that make no sense.

Like, if that incident really did happen in 1996, no body thought to check the oil rig surveillance footage before now?

How this supposed horrific set of shark attacks happened earlier in this year, yet not a single media outlet reported on them as if shark attacks are never massively huge sensationalist news?

In other words, not only is the show itself a load of rubbish, but Discovery have expanded the content onto social media AS IF IT WAS ALL REAL.

The show might have had a small disclaimer, but none of the social media content has any disclaimers at all!

But the key thing here I would like to emphasise is that the youtube accounts and that blog make absolutely no reference to an affiliation with Discovery Channel, never mind any disclaimers.

These accounts can easily be found on google, indeed the first google result for Melvyn Thurmond is the typepad blog.

And they are completely separate from anything to suggest they have actually been created by the Discovery Channel as an extension a TV show.

This is surely getting dangerous in terms of how misleading its getting.

While the content is duplicated on the Discovery website, this is also out there on its on, with no kind of oversight or accountability.

It only serves to make people think the show features real people and covered real events.

We spoke to the director of Kickboxer, Lady Dragon, Lady Dragon 2, Shark Attack 2 and Shark Attack 3: Megalodon about his long career and working with everyone from JCVD to Clint Eastwood to Cynthia Rothrock and John Barrowman.

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