After a series of shark attacks in South Africa, a researcher finds a scientist introduced an outside chemical hormone into the sharks that drives them into a frenzy and tries to find the one responsible before more are attacked.This here wasn't that bad of a film. One of its best aspects is that there's a lot of shark attacks, and that leads to a lot of fun in here. These encounters are really interesting when they occur, such as a thrilling encounter out at sea with a boat-full of partying residents, while other encounters, such as the one near the shipping wreck or in the bay near the lab has some more fun. The dives done into the waters are always uneasy, although the night-time ones are a little more-so for the inherent virtue of when they occur. Still, the overall best scene in the film is the lengthy cage-diving scene, which is a ten-minute sequence where they try out converters on the sharks, and it all leads to scenes of sharks banging into the cages with them trapped inside, making for a tense and uneasy encounter. The last big part of this is the great action that occurs in here, and there's a lot of it as much of the time in the last half plays like a traditional Action movie. There's two really fun chases, a multi-car chase through open-fields which includes a lot of gunfire, high-speed weaving, crashes and lots of objects get blown up and destroyed, as well as a boat chase that is really exciting. There's also the final raid on the villain's hideout, which is even more fun being packed with gunfights, fist-fights and brawling, lots of deaths and even more destruction that occurs and ends with the fantastic helicopter scene which is really fun. While all of these make the film what it is, there was a couple of problems to this that hold it down somewhat. The main factor is that the sharks are rarely mentioned in the middle segment of the film and fade into the background during these scenes, focusing more on the false lead of the cancer study that soon turns into the oil scam. During this, the sharks are absent as it's all done on land, leaving it to be relatively dull for lengthy portions while there's no shark action, leaving them with little time in their own film. Another flaw is that the attacks are over quite quickly, as the sharks are very easily repelled or the victims escaped, and from the knowledge that they're engineered to be angry and better killers, which compared to the ones that were mentioned as fatalities before, is a little strange in that they have very little actual deaths that they're responsible for. It makes them seem like far less impressive killers since the victims now are able to get away when before they couldn't, and this lowering of the shark's capabilities in a far-more reduced manner than they should to accommodate the plot is the most detrimental feature of the film. The last flaw is the shark effects, which is terribly uneven. Though there's no CGI present, the matter of the real shark stock footage that is used for most of the scenes is obvious to pick out and lowers the scene somewhat. They're fine if never once able to keep a constant perspective, either changing in size from scene-to-scene or even species as well. The other part is that the mechanical ones look rather nice but are too stiff, rarely move about and used mostly just to make sure that something is there on-screen leading to a wildly inconsistent approach. Otherwise, these are the film's problems.Rated R: Violence and Language.

Scientist Cordell McQueen is killed in South Africa in an attack by a shark, the very thing he's gone there to investigate. A cryptic message left on his colleague Casper Van Dien's answering machine sends Van Dien and McQueen's sister Jenny McShane are off to South Africa to investigate.What they find when they reach the coastal village where the attack occurred is a town ready to die. The resort that Ernie Hudson operates has no tourists and the fisherman don't go out at all because they're afraid of the water. Over the past few years there's been an unaccounted for spike in the number of shark attacks. The only thing operating is a scientific research institute where another colleague Bentley C. Mitchum is conducting research into a cancer cure.Of course all this ties together with Mitchum conducting some really ghoulish experiments and Hudson playing everyone for suckers. Mitchum maybe thinking of a Nobel Prize for Medicine, but Hudson's got a far more practical motive for his actions. Shark Attack is your average action adventure film with the cast all fitting nicely into their roles. One thing I would have done was cut Mitchum's death scene, just have him die with no last words. That particular piece of dialog was truly atrocious. Someone should have sicced one of those spiked up sharks on the writers.

What a pointless film about genetically mutated sharks. First of all, there are barely any sharks and this film and the gore is crappy low-budget like the ONE shark that comes in at the end. Otherwise, it's a really sh-tty, bad, low budget, typically modern, horror film that makes real good cinematic horror genius like Mario Bava role in their graves. How could there be a big scam for this made-for-TV movie? Yes, this is a made-for-TV crap-shack which you know, knowing this is a made for TV film that there's not going to be much good quality. If you want a shark movie, go watch "Jaws" or even "The Deep" but not Shark Attack. Because despite the title, it's a poor excuse to make money off the SCI-FI channel.

....as my DVD player stopped playing it after about an hour. I am in no doubt however it was doing me a favour, saving me before my brain had totally rotted. Luckily I did get to see the car chase, which contains quite possibly the worst editing I have ever seen in my life (the police are driving and old Alfa Romeo 33, which suddenly changes to a mark 1 Ford Sierra, then back to an Alfa, then crashes as a Sierra! Do these people even watch the film when they've finished making it? The cars don't even look remotely similar!) But I digress. As you've probably worked out by now I hate this film. Even if it has got Ernie Hudson in it (who will always be a God in my eyes for appearing in Ghostbusters.) Most of the movie has nothing to do with sharks, just corrupt cops. I guess they'd run out of money by this point so you get the good old 'z-list actor throwing themselves around in the water whilst someone lets off red food dye' trick. Unless your life depends on it, do not watch this film. And even then only do if you've got a lot to live for.....