I was extremely excited for this movie, as were a lot of other people apparently. The concept behind the movie was awesome, so much so that I doubt the creators realized it would generate so much interest. Perhaps they would have put in a little more effort otherwise. It is literally the worst-filmed movie I have ever seen. Kids in college working on school projects submit far better work to Sundance. This thing is bad! And it's so bad that it's more frustrating than funny, because the concept actually has real potential. If the concept were given to someone like Quentin Tarantino this could have been a real fun Grindhouse-style flick.
I have so many issues with this movie not sure where to start. I'll try to break it down.
I have so many issues with this movie not sure where to start. I'll try to break it down.
- It looks like it was filmed with a 90's home cam corder. Even in the same scene when they change angles the lighting clearly doesn't match up. It's like they had only two cameras available and they were completely different crappy models and they couldn't get the lighting to match and also didn't know how to fix it digitally afterwards.
- Regardless of the camera quality, the cinematography is just plain bad. In a single scene the camera angle bounces all over the place and it's extremely hard to tell what the heck is going on. I think maybe this was aimed at hiding their bad graphics, but it didn't work. We still saw the bad graphics, but were totally disoriented. I mean like there would be a scene where someone is being bit by a shark, but you can't see it happening. Looks like they filmed the movie in a single day and that half of it was constructed using clips of sharks from youtube.
- Wow, bad graphics. Kids with pirated software manage to put together way better graphics than you'll find in this film. As with the camera quality it looks like they have computers and software from the 90s.
- Worst plot ever. With this awesome concept that is the best story they could come up with? Where is the sharknado? The Sharknado is the whole point of the movie, but there is actually very little of this. The tornado comes near the end. And this should be where we get all kinds of carnage, but instead they suspend the action to have some drama and make propane bombs and then fly a helicopter over to the tornado to deliver the bombs, which then cause the tornados to go away? What? No sharks flying around eating people. It's just stupid. I know the movie is stupid and totally unrealistic to begin with, but part of making an unrealistic movie fun and good is building up a realistic plot to support the unrealistic concept. And that means not suspending the laws of physics. Helicopters can't fly into tornados, and bombs, certainly not tiny little propane cans, can't be used to "blow up" a tornado. We wanted to see sharks flying around getting people, not this helicopter nonsense.
- Note I didn't say anything about the acting? Of course the acting was bad, but we expected it to be bad. It was the only thing that lived up to my expectations.
- Side note, what the heck has happened to Tara Reid? She is looking pretty worn these days.