Sharknado (2013)
A Surfer champion and his friends try to save the city from shark infested water spouts brought on by global warming.
The jewel in the crown of The Asylum firm of movie producers, and arguably their most well known film, I've watched a bunch of Asylum movies and they range from decent, watchable affairs to downright atrocious bum gravy. This one ranked sorta just above that to be honest.
It's sort of clear that the movie doesn't take itself seriously from the offset, and there's a sprinkling of tongue in cheek moments mixed with a handful of some bloody, violent death scenes and shark bites, it sorta tries to edge it's bets in all directions to have quite broad appeal and I guess to a degree that works quite well?
The acting is below par to be frank, never so bad that it becomes cringeworthy, well at least not all the time, but also it's very much act-by-numbers most of the time, and you ain't gonna get any standout award winning performances in this one. Special effects though, that being said, we're alright. A bit obvious CGI in spots with weird colour grading e.t.c, but not bad.
Probably about where the praise ends for this one though, it got a bit difficult to understand what was going on in spots and there's a fair few 'action for the sake of action' scenes to pad things out a bit. Lot's of tropes characteristic of a low budget movie as well with the confusingly filmed angles and campy dialogue sequences.
But almost all of that doesn't really matter cos it's a movie solely for the point of being a 1 hour 30 slot filler of something easy and fun to watch, and not y'know, try and redefine the disaster movie genre or whatever. So with that, it does serve it's purpose of filling some dead air and I think trying to measure it against, I don't know, 2012? James Cameron's Armageddon? Jaws? As a movie critic? Is a waste of energy. It was never supposed to serve that purpose.
But did I think it was good? Err no, not really to be honest.
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