The Asylum have returned with their latest shark attack feature, the creatively titled Shark Waters.
If you treat this more as a light comedy, there is marginally more to enjoy here.
We follow Lucia, a teen girl who, despite her father’s reservations heads out on a fishing trip into shark-infested waters.
Like many low-budget shark attack films today, Shark Waters suffers from cheap CGI, effectively nullifying any danger in the attack scenes. One attack is so weirdly shot, that you see the shark chomping away at one of the actors, but not visibly making contact with them.
Our sharks also hunt in packs for some reason and have a weird habit of grinning sometimes before attacks.
The characters here are quite cookie cutter too, with one of the girls revealing early on that her favourite hobby is horseback riding.
Shark Waters is quite desperate for us to empathise with our would-be victims that it adds in many little anecdotes which fall rather flat because there is nothing we haven’t seen a million times here.
The heartbeat of the film is Lucia’s relationship with her father, although his attempts to save the day are hilariously pathetic.
There may be worse shark attack movies out there, but don’t waste your time with Shark Waters.
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