Trailer Park Shark (2017)

SyFy can sure come up with some dandy concepts. Some trailer park folks have figured out a way to steal electricity from the nearby levy. The rich owner of the land occupying the trailer park wants to evict the dwellers, but he can't do it going by legal channels. Thus he hires a couple of hapless guys to blow up the levy that will flood the trailer park. The park gets partially blown up and the survivors not only have to tend with live electric lines, but there is also a hungry shark that has come up river through the blown levy. At times it is very comical watching these rednecks put thoughts together in order to survive. Lulu Jovovich, playing Jolene, is the redeeming factor of the film. She is a true beauty in no matter what setting you place her. The arrival of the shark is by all means a major threat, but the basic instinct to survive is a force to be reckoned with. Kudos to director Griff Furst for his combination of laughs and tension along with a deadly shark. Besides Miss Jovovich, rounding out the cast: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Davis Kallaway, Elise Berggreen, Richie Montgomery, Kelsey Lamb, Ali Eagle and Tara Reid.

This is the type of movie that requires a negative rating or at least a zero to separate it from the truly terrible movies which at least deserve a score of one. The plot is that a after a natural disaster and a bomb detonated by a ruthless businessman and his henchmen a huge shark is trapped in a river. Upon being blown up it gains the power to generate electric shocks like an electric eal. And it kills quite a few local trailer park/swamp residents. The acting is terrible, the effects are worse, the story is laughable and the attempt at humour is the worst ever seen in a terrible shark film. And that's saying something given that there are movies out there like Avalanche Sharks, Three-Headed Shark Attack, Sharknado and its sequels. Even the music score is annoying beyond belief. Even though the movie was obviously not trying to be serious it still makes Sharknado seem like Shakespeare. Avoid it all costs.

Lulu Jovovich gives nothing less than the performance of a lifetime in a marvelous role that serves as the glue holding this entire film together. Under the skillful direction of Griff Furst and working from a superb script, Jovovich sets the screen on fire with passionate emotion as well as stunning beauty. Furst does a fine job of showing the environment of extreme poverty and hard deprivation that permeates the lives of his characters. The supporting cast is good in breathing life into people who could well have become stereotypes. Instead, they are flesh and blood prisoners of circumstance and shockingly under attack in a way beyond all imagination. The tension is electric and the action never stops as these heroes face threat after threat. Frightening and at times horrible, Furst and Jovovich ultimately depict the triumph of the human spirit as the basic decency and strength of common Americans overcome both human and aquatic evil. This film is the best of the killer shark movies to date and that is due to the direction of Mr. Furst and the incredibly powerful and unforgettable performance of Ms. Lulu Jovovich.

Trying to make ends meet, residents in a struggling trailer park down in the middle of the country manage to get swept away in a plot by a developer to drown the area only to have a vicious shark to get involved with them as well and forces them to deal with both issues.This one wasn't all that bad of a killer shark effort. One of the finer aspects of this one is the fact that there's a strong set of action throughout here that gives this a strong overall pace. The trick at the beginning featuring the event staged in two parts where it shows the pipeline being sabotaged and then going back to bring about the cause of the event itself in the second go-round is rather nice with the confrontation with the shark thrown in to give it a great feel. The resulting aftermath in the drowned-out trailer park is quite impressive featuring all the water rushing over and overtaking the community still inside their trailers due to the storm is quite an enjoyable sequence especially with the rescue efforts shown immediately afterward which helps to give this a sense of scale to the action. The scenes of the group encountering the shark in the flooded remains of their community offer some great action as well with the shorter scenes of the shark jumping out to take care of the residents as there's plenty of fun featuring the attacks on the two different sets of victims on the river. The big attack scene on the group of hunters trying to carry out their assassination only to have the shark interrupt matters displaying its electrical attack to further drive home some nice action, while the final confrontation manages to include the final attack on the final residents of the park putting their big plan against the shark into fruition gives this a solid series of action-packed scenes that are incredibly fun and providing plenty to like. Coupled with a great amount of gore from the high body count, there's a lot to like here which holds it over it's few minor flaws. The main issue here is the fact that there's just not a whole lot of realistic work one for the shark, which is so fake-looking and CGI-heavy that it really sticks out here, not only because it's such a difference against the rest of the scene that it stands out. The fact that there's just nothing all that impressive about the way it looks. The other big factor to lower this one is the fact that there's just no reason for this one to put dealing with the shark first before the developer storyline, which ends up leading to the fact that the shark doesn't come off as the main threat, neutralizing it in it's own movie since it's done first and then the attention is turned to the subplot rather than having the two stories intertwined at the end. It doesn't end this on a high note and really brings this down somewhat, although it still has a lot to like.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Language and violence-against- animals.