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A bunch of your typical evil hillbillies decide to fill a saltwater lake with various sharks fitted with cameras, then sell the footage of them eating your typical college hottie-types. This movie is undeniably terrible, but I actually kind of enjoyed it. Completely humourless and yet unintentionally hilarious, it would be a great pick to watch with a bunch of your most seethingly sarcastic friends. An example of the level of intelligence to expect: several hours after one of the characters has his arm torn off and is somehow avoiding bleeding to death while waiting for medical attention he suddenly gets up with a giant spear in hand and goes wading into the lake seeking revenge, gets into a fistfight with a hammerhead shark and kills it. Exactly. Yet no matter how groan-inducing it gets, it still manages to be entertaining. Stay tuned after the credits for a hilarious rap song about the movie performed by the cast.

I saw this movie on movie central and was not impressed. Once you see the movie once and see it a second time you know what will happen down to what they will say. The scene with the dog is sad. They throw the dog off the boat then daylight comes and dog brings man stick a dog cannot swim that long especially if ther are sharks. Then the dog disapears and reappears when sharks are dead and the man drags girl to boat. Then miraculousy dog jumps on boat from side. A dog cannot not do that from water after swimmming for so long. Not professionaly done. I understand that is cheaper made and they tried. I rate it one out of five.

SPOILER ALERT not enough to give the plot away but minor inaccuracies.

As someone that has spent part of my childhood and adult years watching documentaries, reading articles on sharks and watching shark movies my conclusion for this movie is rent if you can, don't buy it. The stuff you can't control is for these types of movies is acting and CGI because lets face it sharks aren't exactly trainable, in every group horror film there's the hot girl, the jock, the jerk, the nerd, the not so nice girl and the hot guy that saves the day and gets the hot girl. Something that's so overdone it's predictable.

But this movie is basically about an hour and a half of laziness. For me because of the factors you can't control what makes a good shark film is accuracy and how believable the situation is. Take JAWS for example, Great White Shark, salt water ocean preying on an island BASED on a theory of shark behavior and territoriality. The amount of inaccuracies in this movie almost made me leave it was so bad, there's tons of them. Just to name a few:

- Saltwater fish in a lake.
- Saltwater fish that cannot be transported long distances unless deceased.
- No tiger sharks were used, the ones depicted in the movie are in fact Sand tiger sharks or Grey Nurse sharks which are not aggressive and only attack humans if bothered.

Maybe it's petty that I'm that much of a nerd to let this stuff bother me but if you knew that information would you be able to sit there and not let if bother you? The information on the Nurse shark is easy to look up to. There was no excuse, when they said Tiger sharks in the movie I thought to myself "Okay maybe some decent action." -Closer Inspection- o.O...Nurse sharks? -facepalm- It takes the terror completely out of it if there was any.

When I went to see this movie I was under the impression that the only shark species that would be present are Bull sharks which were used in the movie (once). Bull sharks can survive in both salt and freshwater, if they had stuck with that notion it would have actually been a decent movie with minor plot changes. ie: Hillbillies get their hands on Shark pups and raise them in the lake in a sealed off area until they actually grew to a decent size.

Also there is scenes from Deep Blue Sea in the intro and for the love of god if they didn't get permission to use that youtube clip of the Great White Shark's head in the cage I hope the guy sues them for it. (Yes the video is on youtube go look it up)

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