I don't know where to start with this movie.
A young woman goes to some island to find her mother, who it turns out is dead from a shark attack. Not any shark, but a great white shark. She meets up with a friend of her mother, who explains to her that the mother was working on some plant-based plastics substitute and the "plastic people" were out to get her. There is a lab on a secret island in international waters. Very remote. No laws. She was working out there with her boyfriend/business partner.
She goes around the beach town, and gathers maps, tells people that she is organizing some race, etc. A shopkeeper makes a very mysterious phone call to someone, telling them that an American girl was in there asking about the shark and buying marine maps. This is hilarious, because the accent on this actress is definitely NOT American, but Eastern European and thick.
Well, cutting out the dross, this young woman, her friends, and her mother's friend head to the remote island, where the mother had been staying with some guy. One of the first things you notice about this super secret island is the fact there are fishing boats in the bay. Oh wait, we find out it is supposed to be a lagoon. But it looks more like a bay. And this is where I have to go into detail, because their time on this super secret island is so silly.
They find some cute poisonous mushrooms, right next to a house. Not a hut or anything, but a house. With a boat in the yard and what looks like a possible swing set in the background.
Then, as they're walking to the super secret lab on the super secret island, you can see the city on the main island in the background. I mean clearly.
This super secret remote island in international waters also has some kind of power plant, as there are lights on the docks, and electricity in the super secret lab. Which also seems to have internet. But of course, no cell signal.
Yes, there is a teeny tiny solar panel on the roof, that looks like it was put there for the sole purpose of the movie. I'm not sure it would generate enough electricity to run a laptop.
They meet the dead mother's boyfriend/business partner. He tells them how the "plastic people" put the shark in the waters. And how if they stay on the island, they're all going to die. If he knew this, why is he still on this island?
Next, the appearance of a dorsal fin. The mother's friend screams, "SHARK!" like they're swimming, instead of being on dry land. The daughter is holding a spear gun, but does she use it? You don't even have to ask. There's still around 25 minutes left.
The boyfriend/business partner tells them there shouldn't be a shark for 1000 miles and that this isn't great white shark habitat. Really?
Looking at the map on National Geographic Kids, the only way for them to be somewhere where great whites don't exist is the Arctic Ocean or the Southern Ocean. Like, polar regions. They are definitely in the tropics.
But my favorite part about this super secret island in international waters is in the next scene. Where you definitely see houses, and a bunch of them, on the other side of the bay/lagoon. (It does look like a bay, it is not enclosed like a lagoon.) I mean a lot of houses. The camera operator tried to not get them in the shots, but, there was no way to avoid those houses in some shots.
Somehow, the tech genius of the group manages to get aerial video of this super secret island in international waters and we discover there are paved roads and very new looking cars. But then the camera feed dies. And everyone is upset.
Next, one of the group gets eaten by the great white. So she really wants revenge now! Time for her to kill the shark!
So she goes out in the middle of the night, dips a spear in the poison mushroom juice, and wades out into the water to wait for the shark. Just as it's almost close enough to shoot, one of her friends comes out, grabs her from behind and her shot goes wide and misses the shark. But it had to. They still have to fill 15 minutes.
Cut to the next day. Her mother's friend is murdered and thrown out to sea. She and the few remaining friends continue to look for her mother's formula, while trying to get a sea taxi back to the main island. But in spite of it being broad daylight and the main island in plain site and like maybe 5 miles away, the sea taxi won't come out after dark?
After finding the formula, the boyfriend/business partner reappears, (of course,) to kill them all. Or something. But they get him into the water, where the shark is just waiting to kill.
Then the movie ends. No killing the shark, no hunting the shark. Just the remainders vow to save the world and it ends.
No one in this can act. The script is stupid. I wasted way too much time watching this. I want my time back.
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