This is not a real documentary. Rather, it is a fictitious story masquerading as a documentary. Think Waiting for Guffman or This is Spinal Tap or Incident at Loch Ness. Pretty much every ostensible person in the film is a character played by a mediocre actor. One of the scientist characters has the unsubtle name of "Conrad Manus." The disclaimer at the beginning is weak and poorly worded.
I would've preferred a "found footage" style horror film. Something like Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity or The Fourth Kind. Hell, even something cool and atmospheric like The Mothman Prophecies, which is more straightforward narrative pretending to be based on true events. That would've been more fun. Instead, it's just a bad-CGI Jaws ripoff.
I was shown this episode of Shark Week by some folks who wholeheartedly believed it was real. I hope I didn't ruin it for them.
I mean, C'mon. If it were real, the people who showed it to me (along with an audience of children) would have had to reckon with the idea that they were showing the violent deaths of actual human beings to all of us. A shark-attack snuff film, if you will.
The only reason I give it more than one star is because the production design is halfway decent.
I would've preferred a "found footage" style horror film. Something like Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity or The Fourth Kind. Hell, even something cool and atmospheric like The Mothman Prophecies, which is more straightforward narrative pretending to be based on true events. That would've been more fun. Instead, it's just a bad-CGI Jaws ripoff.
I was shown this episode of Shark Week by some folks who wholeheartedly believed it was real. I hope I didn't ruin it for them.
I mean, C'mon. If it were real, the people who showed it to me (along with an audience of children) would have had to reckon with the idea that they were showing the violent deaths of actual human beings to all of us. A shark-attack snuff film, if you will.
The only reason I give it more than one star is because the production design is halfway decent.
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