Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Dom Nickson
Spoiler Alert! At least the shark doesn't growl like other stupid movies have to use to make the shark seem menacing! It seems like this film, Deep Blue Sea, Jaw 1 and 2 got it right. Bait was another decent film but it needed more character development I thought. This film however has fine buildup but the way they killed the shark was really weak. I was always a big fan of shark films when I was younger and I'd always rent this because it's the only other one besides the 4 others I mentioned that did really well. Lou Diamond Phillips does pretty well I must say. Bottom line the movie was pretty good up until the very end when they kill the shark.
Chase_Witherspoon
A salvage boat operator finds himself an unwitting hero when an abnormally large bull shark decides to take umbrage with those who stray into its domain. Kudos to the filmmakers for incorporating a less sensationalist shark species into its story; the pre-occupation with great white terror has waned amid the plethora of movies to emerge in the past decade, and so an this better proportioned alternative is as offbeat as it is a smart choice to re-designate the theme, and breathe new life into the tired formula. That said, the TV budget doesn't always match the promise in delivering a realistic looking bull shark – but at least they tried. The scene in which the shark propels sideways over the walk bridge, to devour the conservationist, is while unexpected and a mild shock, poorly juxtaposed on rewind. Watch it just once, and it should be okay.If you were wondering where Lou "Stand & Deliver", "La Bamba", "Young Guns" Diamond Phillips had been hiding since his brief stardom ended in the early nineties, this is a typical example. But of course, fans of the genre will have seen LDP in "Bats" just a few years earlier, and so his credentials are well established. Here, he tag teams with the spunky Kristy Swanson, not a name of particular eminence, although she does have the distinction of being the original motion picture "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" before SMG inherited the part (and the subsequent reputation) for the series. Joining them is a largely unknown cast, save for a couple of familiar TV faces, and the presence of rapper-turned "actor", Coolio, who plays, well, himself in this movie. The special make-up effects aren't bad – there's a couple of gruesome touches, which are surprising for a TV movie – and the shark effects, as aforementioned are passable, without baring too much scrutiny.Overall, "Red Water" was definitely better than the average contemporary shark movie, and worth a second look.
Vomitron_G
Well, I supposed you could look at this as the umpteenth bad shark movie, but it's actually a little less bad than the previous umpteenth bad shark movie I saw. No, seriously, "Red Water" is not as bad as that Casper Van Diem "Shark Attack"-crap and its sequels. And as far as made for TV shark movies go, they at least did try to make something remotely decent here. Okay, it is a "Jaws"-clone, like any movie featuring a killer-shark (this time the shark's swimming up stream). But it feels more along the lines of "Anaconda" (1997) or "Lake Placid" (1999). Only, slightly below those standards. There were at least two events in "Red Water" that had me really rolling my eyes. Won't go into them, not really worth it. I did have some laughs with Coolio as a bad-ass *beep* with a gun. And how they kill the shark, you just have to see! I loved it! Most of the time the shark looked surprisingly okay even. I said: "most of the time" not "all the time". In some sequences they even appeared to have used a mechanical shark, which is always applaudable in these days of (crappy) CGI (though the latter is featured too, on some occasions). Anyway, I didn't mind this as a time-waster. Like I said, I've seen far worse shark tripe already.
Hang_All_Drunkdrivers
There were only a few short scenes with the shark and the water was muddy and shark didn't do anything but come str8 ahead like the prop on a string it was. Very weak special effects. Lou diamond philips was pretty good as the hero and i always love kristy swanson. A beautiful and very well built woman.An incredibly stupid scene was when the good guys were tied up and thrown in this room. But their hands were tied at the WRISTS leaving the fingers completely free. Would have been easy to untie the ropes on their comrades. But they never did that and then one of the bad guys came in and kicked the crap out of them. After he left, they took a hacksaw out of a toolbox (which had been lying there all along) and cut the ropes!!!!No suspense and no real scares in this "horror" movie. For kristy swanson fans only.
