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This is the fourth installment of the Mega Shark franchise. A simple story line finds the world still in torment after earlier shark attacks. As American scientists argue with the military about letting sleeping sharks lie; an enormous Cold War robot named Kolossus accidentally is awakened in Russia. Fortunately or unfortunately, a new Mega Shark appears and global chaos ensues. What is to stop Russia's doomsday mechanism from dueling with the monster shark? Creature and Sci-Fi violence sustains enough action to keep most happy. Christopher Ray directs. The cast includes: Brody Hutzler, Illeana Douglas, Adam Dunnells, Amy Rider, Ernest Thompson, Jeff Hatch and screenwriter Edward DeRuiter.

Another movie watched. Actually this wasn't half bad. OK, the acting was dire but CGI was good. I didn't care who died. The Meg was detailed and SMART and charismatic . Like in Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark, again the shark showed high intelligence and character throughout the movie. Honestly the last 20 minutes of the movie had the most action. Spoiler Alert. There could possibly be a sequel soon. It is evident they spent most of the money on CGI the shark and Kolossus. Movie was enjoyable as I didn't start playing with my iphone during the movie! We are never really going to get "decent Acting" in these type of movies. The cheesiness of the characters can be like Marmite. Love them or hate them. I am not rushing out the door to buy this on DVD but I would recommend this especially for all the fellow 'creature feature' movies. Oh Anaconda was mid budget movie with decent acting. Still brainstorming. Enjoy!

The low-budget Mega Shark series has been terrible so far, with Giant Octopus, Crocosaurus, and Mecha being utter wastes of time, both for me and anyone involved with it, and here was hoping that this fourth instalment would be the last. Basically, sometime after the destruction of Mecha Shark, the world's governments institute have planned in case another Mega Shark appears. Sure enough, another shark is awakened by Russian miners drilling underwater for red mercury. Meanwhile, a man named Benedict (Bryan Hanna) leads a team of prospectors searching for red mercury for an unknown sponsor; entering a mine in Russia, they discover a secret stock of the substance. American agent Moira King (Amy Rider), a member of Benedict's team, gets into a standoff with the Russians, when a giant robot hidden beneath the mine reawakens, the Kolossus. King barely escapes while the mine is destroyed by the robot. Dr. Alison Gray (Illeana Douglas) believes the shark's behaviour could be influenced with the use of her newly developed sonic transmitters, but the military reject her proposal, following instead the aggressive plan of her colleague Dr. John Bullock (Jeff Hatch). Grey is then summoned by tech mogul and environmentalist Joshua Dane (Brody Hutzler), CEO of DaneTech Industries, who has been infiltrating the communications of the government and their plans, he distrusts their intentions. Dane suggests that they work together to stop the shark in a more humane way and protect the environment. Elsewhere, King recruits desk worker Spencer (Edward DeRuiter) to help her to stop Kolossus. The robot is discovered to be a mobile weapon of mass destruction created by the Russians during the Cold War, powered by red mercury and capable of multiple detonations. Admiral Titus Jackson (Ernest Thomas) leads a fleet to carry out an attack on the shark, but the weapons are useless, and Dr. Bullock is thrown overboard. Dane and Alison approach on Dane's hydrofoil and offer to assist using Alison's transmitter, but the pod malfunctions and the shark escapes. King and Spencer come across the battle and join forces with Dane and Alison to find the creator of Kolossus creator, Dr. Sergei Abramov (Patrick Bauchau). When Abramov is located, he gives them a compass and clues to where the technology to control Kolossus can be found. Kolossus arrives and detonates, killing Abramov while the others escape. The group follow Abramov's clues and locate the laboratory where he created Kolossus, which is now underwater. The shark is nearby and goes on another rampage, causing Admiral Jackson to suffer a breakdown and initiates a nuclear launch before committing suicide. Lieutenant Commander Elisha Parker (Tara Price) manages to override the order, aborting the strike, and King draws the shark, using an American flag, into the inlet where the laboratory is, trapping it. While King, Spencer, Alison, and Dane search the laboratory for the control device for Kolossus, the robot appears and begins fighting with the shark. They find the device and escape the lab just before it is destroyed during the battle. Kolossus approaches Dane's ship, but they manage to connect the controller to Dane's computer system in time to stop it. Kollosus is now under Dane's control, but he betrays the others, revealing that he was Benedict's sponsor and sabotaged Alison's transmitter to prevent the government from killing the shark before he could find red mercury. As he collects the red mercury from Kolossus, the shark attacks again, but he uses Kolossus to attach a transmitter to the shark, so he has it under his control as well. Dane broadcasts a message to the world, announcing that he has control of both Mega Shark and Kolossus and plans to destroy the cities that produce the most pollution, killing millions in the name of saving the environment. Several governments send out fighter jets against him, but Dane uses Mega Shark and Kolossus to eliminate them. He then sends a worldwide declaration that he expects a nuclear strike to come, warning that if he is killed, it will trigger the release of red mercury into the atmosphere, rendering Earth inhospitable for centuries. The Strategic Defense Initiative satellite is activated to combat Dane, but he uses Kolossus throw the shark into space, knocking the satellite's laser off target, which hits the moon instead. Dane is unaware that, landing back in the ocean, the transmitter has fallen off the shark. The shark attacks Kolossus, causing Dane's control system to crash. Kolossus targets the ship, while Alison, King and Spencer have escaped their bonds and flee. Dane runs onto the beach and is crushed under the foot of Kolossus. Mega Shark and Kolossus engage in a vicious final battle, with Alison, King and Spencer watching from the shore. Kolossus finally drags the shark down deep underwater, wrapping itself around it and detonating its entire remaining supply of red mercury, destroying both creatures. With the crisis over, the three survivors await rescue. Deep underwater, another egg hatches, giving birth to a new Mega Shark. Dr. Bullock, who survived being thrown overboard, is later killed by the new shark, and the screen reads "Mega Shark Will Return". Also starring Rileah Vanderbilt as Rileah and Tim Abell as Ivan. Unlike the previous films, I didn't recognise anybody in the case, but it doesn't matter, the special effects are silly and wasted, the giant robot looks ridiculous, like a cross between the human muscle system and the Terminator, the shark looks equally daft in moments, and it is just generally awful, hopefully there won't be another one as suggested at the end, a stupid and pointless science-fiction horror. Poor!

I'll give Asylum films credit for casting interesting nearly forgotten cultural icons from decades before. This time it's Ernest Thomas from a popular black sitcom from 35 years before. But what we've also got is a combination of world politics vs. science, and that means that there's a new mega shark in the seas off the coast of Brazil where conflicts between Russians and American naval ships bring this creature up from out of the depths. Sounds exciting? Unfortunately not, and it's angering because within ten minutes, the vibrations of this huge beast causes shakes that brings down the famous statue of Jesus.

In addition to Thomas, there's top billed Illeana Douglas as a deadpan research doctor, an interesting character for sure, but the two are surrounded by stereotypical Russian military types with no depth and rather dull American naval officers as well. It takes quite a while for the science fiction to replace the seafaring action, so you've got a lot of stretched out action to make this feature length. The idea of the shark going against a giant robot of Greek mythological proportions is silly as well even though it's an impressive giant prop. I'll settle for the old Godzilla or Gamera movies over these modern rip-offs that lack the fun of those Japanese cult classics.

The most shocking thing here is that a member of the animal most advanced on the planet, if you leave out whales and dolphins, thought up this thing. Not only that but he persuaded another one to finance and produce this trash. It is hardly fit for a old style comic book and certainly should not be viewed by anybody over the age of ten. The production values and continuity are abysmal.

A man falls overboard and is never referred to again , the 'shark' is trapped inside an inlet but inexplicably gets out, oh, and BTW millions of sharks are killed every year for their fins alone but modern weapons cannot touch this one., which can also leap high enough to damage a helicopter! How would a fish know a helicopter was above it anyway, let alone aim at it?

As for the huge robot what a stupid creation, a couple of shell hitting its legs would have brought it to the ground. The only thing of value in this travesty is that it gave employment to some people.

Between Mega Shark, Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus, Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark and the rumored Mega Shark Versus Moby Dick, The Asylum has really gotten plenty of nautical miles out of the Mega Shark story.

Yet how can we explain the fact that Illeana Douglas appears in this movie as Dr. Alison Gray? I mean, Douglas is an incredible actress, but I guess everyone needs work. And yet she brings such gravitas to her role that you wonder, does she realize that she's in a movie where an unearthed Cold War Russian giant robot battles a monstrous shark?

This was directed by Christopher Ray, who is also Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray, who is Fred's son and now it all makes so much more sense. Hey - I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I wish there were more movies where soldiers fought to free mechanical monsters who can pick up a megalodon and throw it at a satellite that's shooting a laser.

If you like your jetfighters as stock footage, your monsters rubbery yet made in CGI and great posters, well, this movie is for you. Actually, it's for me, because this is exactly the kind of movie I revel in. If only we couldn't find a secret Italian lab that has the robotic form of Bruno Mattei hidden away so that he could make so many more of these shark movies. Let's Go Fund that!

The Mega Shark series is fantastic! The films throw logic as high in the air as the Mega Shark leaps (and this film's shark leaps the highest of all!), but who cares, as therein lies the guilty pleasure of these crazy movies, and Mega Shark vs. Kolossus is no exception as it pushes the crazy level to the max. As ever, the Mega Shark makes its entrance with the quickest of introductions before rapidly getting down to its national monument smashing and ship-devouring ways. However, this time the mad megalodon must face an adversary who is a cross between a giant Ultra Man and Iron Maiden's lovable mascot, Eddie-the Head (and what is not to love in that pairing?). OK, so maybe the two titans pretty much act like they are in two separate films for most of the action, but it is still a cheese-laden marvel when they do come together in WWE-style combat. Add a David Beckham look-alike tech-philanthropist, a mighty CIA agent, a ship's bridge that could be the interior of a bus, a very game and knowingly irreverent Illeana Douglas, plus battleships being swatted hither and thither by the titular Mega Shark, and you have another perfect Saturday night schlock fest that is that is everything you could hope for from a Mega Shark that apparently has the ability to destroy all of humanity (I'm still not fully sure how sharks can do that, even megasharks, but these films assure us that they can so that is good enough for me).