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- Posted on 2008-11-19
One of not many who enjoyed this film
I am a big fan of the Jaws series. Wasn't too fond of Jaws 3. Loved the first 2 and then it came down to this one. Did I like it? Of course I did. I don't go and question how a great white shark got into the Bahamas waters or anything like that. I just enjoyed the movie for what it was worth.
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-11-19
This is the worst film ever made and everyone knows it is
Jaws the Revenge is so bad that you just want to kill yourself, and say prayers before you die. Believe me you people who love Jaws, don't see this one.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-09-19
The worst Jaws and in the top 100 worst films ever made
I'm sure there are better reviews than mine but I had to warn anyone who is thinking of watching this..or worse, buying it, that it is literally in my top 100 worst films ever made. There is one stupid after another. In fact, one cannot attach a single positive word to this film. The silliest thing in the entire film, and there are many, is having the shark growl. I cannot believe that the fool who directed this actually got funding.
Score: 1 - Posted on 2008-09-01
This time - it bombs.
I recall seeing this movie down the shore in the summer of 1987. I was five years old. It's my oldest memory of going to the cinema. Sad, isn't it?
To a five year old in the late 80s, this may have been terrifying. To an adult in the late 00s, it's monumentally stupid. There's so many major flaws in this movie, the biggest of which happens to be the main plot: a shark seeks revenge against the Brody family. My question is - why? Who is this shark? Did the shark from the first three movies survive and is now exacting vengance? Is this shark a relative of those first three sharks? If so, how does this shark know who killed his family? More importantly, how does the shark know this family left Amity for the Bahamas? Does he have hired spies on land? How does he even know how to get the Bahamas? Why does Ellen Brody have nightmares about events she wasn't even present for? Why is Michael Caine's shirt dry after climbing out of the water? Why does the shark roar? What causes this shark to explode? Is Mario Van Peebles a Jamaican superhero? Why can't Lance Guest's wife act?
My brain hurts. And yours will too after seeing Jaws: The Revenge! See it!
One star for Michael Small's admittely thrilling score and Michael Caine's new house.
Score: 1 - Posted on 2008-08-24
Wherefore art thou, Chief Brody?
This film, the fourth in a franchise inspired by Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws" could be used by either the MST3K crew for episode fodder or by a film school to show how not to make an action-adventure film.
The fact that scenes from the original and far superior "Jaws" are spliced into this film might make the viewer rush to eject this film and watch Spielberg's first blockbuster. Nevertheless, the film is good stupid fun if you really have nothing better to do.
The film starts with Mrs. Brody's youngest son Sean (the baby on the beach in the original and the kid on the sailboat in the second) being attacked and killed at night by (presumably) a Great White shark. Mrs. Brody is inconsolable, and she orders her other son, Mike, to stop working as a marine biologist in the Bahamas. He invites her to visit him partly because he's concerned about her mental state and partly to assuage her fears that he will soon become the victim of a shark attack.
She goes to the Bahamas and meets a single pilot named Hoagie (played by Michael Caine). She seems to sense that a Great White is lurking nearby and, sure enough, Mike is stalked through a sunken ship by one and her granddaughter is nearly eaten while riding a banana boat on the beach. Interestingly enough, the boat used in this film is located in 60 feet of water off the shore of Nassau, Bahamas, and local dive stores use it for wreck dives. I dove this wreck in 1998.
Mrs. Brody decides to take matters into her own hands and kill the shark herself so she steals her son's boat. Hoagie and Mike find her (spotting the boat and shark from Hoagie's plane) and they all battle the shark before the film's glorious conclusion: the shark being impaled on the bowsprit of the boat.
The fact that in many scenes the shark is so obviously fake so as to make one's eyes roll is one reason the film was panned. Secondly, Mrs. Brody has flashbacks to events she did not personally witness (Chief Brody's killing the original shark and her son Sean's death as examples); even Roger Ebert pointed this glaring flaw out.
If you want a stupid shark movie, this will do unless you watch "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon" which is even more stupid.
Score: 2
