Shark Hunter (2001)

User Rating:

2.2/10   

Director:

Matt Codd

Writers:

Phillip J. Roth (story)
Sam Wells (screenplay)

Release Date:

1 October 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Danger In The Deep (DVD cover)

Plot:

Years after his parents are killed by a megalodon (an enormous shark that has supposedly been extinct for millions of years)...

Plot Keywords:

Megalodon | Shark | Abyss | Shark Attack | Cryptozoology

Cast

Antonio Sabato Jr.	...	Spencer Northcut
Christian Toulali	...	Dr. William Atkins (as Christain Toulali)
Grand L. Bush	...	Rob Harrington
Heather Marie Marsden	...	Cheryl
Velizar Binev	...	Will Tchenko
Hristo Shopov	...	Justin French
Robert Zachar	...	Mr. Northcut
Bojka Velkova	...	Mrs. Northcut
Kiril Hristov	...	Young Spencer Northcut
Victor Biserov	...	DSS Worker Peters
Julian Vergov	...	Dirt Worker #1
Ivan Barnev	...	Dirt Worker #2
Ivan Barnev	...	Dirt Worker #2
Nikolai Bojkov	...	Student #1
Vesela Dimitrova	...	Student #2 (as Vessela Dimitrova)

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bulgaria

Company:

Bright Ideas

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Every character claims that the megalodon went extinct 40 million years ago. Actually, this species didn't appear till 20 million years ago and the proposed date of its extinction is only around 1'6 million years ago.

Quotes:

Rob Harrington: We're going to need a bigger sub.

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Better Than I Thought It Would Be

Having switched over to late night Sky Movies, I thought this was just going to be another rubbishy clone movie that I could switch my brain off to, then it turned out to be the completely opposite. The tense bits were tense, the special effects were very good for a "hmm, never saw 'that' one at the movies" movie, and the acting was OK. My only complaints with it were plot wise, the crew seemed to very quickly jump into plan to capture a giant monster that none of them believed existed in the first place, and the investigation of the research centre to which they were sent to 'investigate', encompassed nothing more than cursory glance and the extraction of a Shark tooth from the side of a wall. The ending was also a bit, well... unsatisfactory. Other than that, it held my attention and is a very worthy "Aaah, giant Shark" movie.