I think it's possible to love sharks and be truthful about what they are simultaneously which is incredible animals that have been apex predators for millions of years, and that eat to survive the narrator (with a quite irritating surfer type drawl which seems to be absent when you hear him talking on the phone later) tells us that sharks don't bite flesh or want to eat people yet at the same time he can be seen playing with sharks while wearing an an armoured wetsuit. If you're that confident then dive with a normal neoprene wetsuit and/or keep a respectful distancethey site whales as an example of why sharks shouldn't be hunted when the two species and situation are very different. we also see them chasing the small guys who are out there responding to market conditions and trying to earn a living, hosing them down at sea and putting lives in danger with music playing like we are supposed to admire this. They're then surprised when they are arrested for it. Would they have tried this in u.s waters for example?documentary footage must be in short supply but lots of the stuff used here is extremely old and looks like it's from the 70s or 80s some good points are still made and probably this style of documentary hits home with the average person But if you already know that hunting sharks for fins is a bad thing, this documentary won't take you much further and I personally would've liked to have seen something a bit more intelligent than this The guy who made the film doesn't look like your typical conservationist either and I can't help but think that he decided to make a documentary on a controversial subject to make a name for himself.. I don't see anything else conservation related on his IMDb for some five years after making this film

Rob Stewart and his team (Paul Watson,Patrick Moore etc) has the courage to exposed the ugly side of mankind i.e. Greed, mindless and selfishness. For those who hunt sharks for fins are greed and selfish as the eco system in the ocean are upside down. Clips showing human cutting fins from live sharks and throwing back into the water and left to die. Rob and his team has did the right thing by speaking for the sharks and protecting the ocean. If this goes unchecked, one day this world will end not because of God but ourselves. Even if we stop this practice now, it may be a little too late but at least something has been done. A lot of people take things for granted and one of the reason is the lack of such eye and mind opening movie available. This show goes hand in hand with another movie titled "The Cove". Please watch it and think about it. Time to Change our habits for the better.

A really awful documentary on the reasons for the declining shark population is spoiled by the director's love affair with himself. There is very little good footage of sharks but every scene has the director in it, suntanned and showing off his spiffy new haircut.I watched this because of the high rating on IMDb; shortly after it started I realized that all those good reviews were no doubt done by him. There is no one else on Earth, with the possible exception of his mother, who could think this is a decent documentary.The film is riddled with bad science, questionable facts and exaggeration. You'll hear all about the "Shark Fin Mafia" while watching the director "bravely" ram a small fishing boat with a much larger ship. And why do these self-proclaimed shark saviors need a shotgun on board for "shark protection"? I'm on board with the idea that the oceans are over fished and sharks are being decimated for their fins, and that it should be stopped. The self-obsessed way that they go about it is what makes this a lousy documentary. This director is doing more harm to the environmental cause than help; by being so completely self-centered and using a ridiculous degree of exaggeration in every scene, he makes other environmentalists look foolish by association.This is a missed opportunity to show the world how badly overfishing and finning are destroying the environment.

Seriously. If either Gore or Moore (hey! that rhymes!) had made this movie, it would be ALL OVER the place. As it is, there were four other people in the theater with me. What a shame. Beautiful underwater scenes aside, this movie made me cry. What a strong message, and the stuff that happened in Costa Rica, etc added clear visual evidence of what's going on. If I had to find a fault, it would be the filmmaker himself; as many adventure filmmakers do, he thinks the viewers will want to see him as much as possible, and to hear about their personal problems. Which is fine if pertinent, but in his case it wasn't. But really, a small complaint.