Megalodon (2018) Reviews

• Oops

  nowego2018-09-10

  I mistakenly watched this because I thought this was The Meg, dumb I know, but it is based on a similar premise. I should have realised when I noticed Michael Madsen was in it, he is usually only in bad movies and this was bad, with a capital B. This is so bad that I would have turned it off after 10 minutes, but my partner was liking it, so, regretfully I had to endure the whole thing. I love shark movies, but this one is not worth watching at all. Everything about it was just wrong. Avoid like the plague.

• Steamy pile of crap

  ninaarrastia2018-08-14

  I couldn't get past the first scene. Not because the CGI looked like it was made by a highschool kid learning digital video production. Because it starts with a bunch of Naval personnel on the deck of a boat in formation, no hats on, some at attention some in something between attention and parade rest. Then the commander Michael Madsen walks out and holy shit he looks like he just rolled onto the set after a 4 day bender in Vegas. This supposed naval ship commander's mullet is showing from under hit head gear. Which has a giant bird shaped emblem on it that was stolen from a 1950s car hood. Hes got rings on like a pump and his uniform looks like he just pulled it out a hamper and threw it on. I got as far as the next scene where everyone is saluting in doors and nearly threw my remote through my TV. If they couldnt pay for good graphics or a decent plot, They could have at least spent 100 bucks on some naval veteran at the very least to help look an actual military service FFS.

• Waste of film footage

  Bugsy_b2018-09-07

  This was such a bad movie from the acting down to the ridiculous storyline. Even Michael Madsen gave a poor performance. It was like he didn't want to be in the movie at all. I got a little better than 2/3 of the way through and I gave up...couldn't bear to watch a single more scene.

• Three stars and here's why

  robert_ramsey2018-08-28

  Acting dreadful. CGI dreadful. Storyline dreadful. Military accuracy dreadful. Strangely tho I laughed at most of the things that made this film bad and ended up enjoying it! Would I watch a sequel? Sure. Would I watch it again? Eh,,, no.

• If I could give it a negative I would

  bacondar-589652018-08-18

  I love my bad shark movies. I love my great shark movies. And I really love my bad great shark movies. Sadly, this movie falls into none of those categories. I will give some credit to a few of the actors for making the best of what they had to work with, but everything else about this was just bad. You don't come to expect much from the Syfy movies when it comes to special effects, but the scene of the Carrier rocking in the ocean looked so poorly done it was just sad. And I've seen many complaints about the lack of military attention paid to this and yeah, gotta agree. There is usually something to enjoy in these movies, maybe a favorite actor chewing up the scenery or such, but we didn't even get that. I feel they spent the majority of their budget paying Michael Madsen to be in it and for all of his maybe 10 minutes, he kinda phoned it in. Sadly, this will NEVER end up in my to buy and watch over and over pile. EVER.