★ 1 / 10
Never again
I have no idea how this movie even achieved an average rating above 3. It's a disaster in terms of acting, graphics, and overall cinematography. For me, it was…
I have no idea how this movie even achieved an average rating above 3. It's a disaster in terms of acting, graphics, and overall cinematography. For me, it was unwatchable. The last 20 minutes were MORE bearable, but only because it wasn't as colorful and something actually happened. Overall, the toys look more realistic than the sharks in this movie. I don't know if I'll ever review a Chinese production again. Something's seriously wrong here. The movie is classified as a horror movie, so I'm rating it as a horror movie. 1/10.
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★ 4 / 10
Rather generic shark movie...
paul_m_haakonsen
Of course I opted to watch the 2023 Chinese movie "Shí Ren Sha", despite it laughable English title, which was "Shark Evil". This was a shark movie that I had…
Of course I opted to watch the 2023 Chinese movie "Shí Ren Sha", despite it laughable English title, which was "Shark Evil". This was a shark movie that I had never heard about, much less seen, and given my love of shark movies, despite the majority of them are questionable affairs, then I still opted to check out what director Huanxiang Chen had to offer.The storyline was pretty straightforward, but writers Huanxiang Chen and Gao Feng didn't exactly revolutionize the shark movie genre, nor did they bring anything new to the genre either, for better or worse. On the plus side, then you know what you are getting here and what you are getting yourself into, I suppose. But on the other hand, the movie's narrative does leave you wanting for a bit more than what the writers collectively managed to churn out.There are a lot of mistakes throughout the course of the movie. For example, then it appeared that the director and the CGI team doesn't know how the laws of motions work, because a massive shark that jumps out of the water to snatch a prey doesn't just instantly stop in mid-air once it has chomped down on its prey, and then drop into the water. Or the fact that a woman sitting in an inflatable raft and the shark jumped up and rammed down on her and bit her, yet the inflatable raft was untouched and still inflated. The movie is crammed with odd mistakes such as that, as the people working on the movie was not familiar with the laws of physics and motion.I was not familiar with the cast in the movie, which is actually something I do enjoy whenever I watch a movie. The acting performances in the movie were fair enough, but nothing particularly memorable.Visually, then the movie had some talented CGI people working on it. I liked the visual effects in the movie, because they rendered the shark quite nicely and in a believable manner as well. Well, if you look past the mistakes of laws of physics in the movie.Was "Shí Ren Sha" a great movie? No. Was it a good movie? Well... I will say that it was definitely a watchable shark movie, but it kind of ran on autopilot, so you're not in for anything particularly extraordinary here, should you opt to watch the movie.My rating of director Huanxiang Chen's 2023 movie "Shí Ren Sha" lands on a four out of ten stars.
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I really need to stop downloading movies from Freeman - there's half movies, wrong movies, only commentary soundtracks, no (or unsynced) subs, and so on and so on.