Shark Season (2020)

Directed by: Jared Cohn | 90 minutes | action | Actors: Michael Madsen, Paige McGarvin, Juliana Destefano, Jack Pearson, Lauren E. Hubbard, Nicholas Ryan, Josh Lovejoy, Ben Gelera, Eric Goldsmith, Christian Frazier, Jack Pearson

“Based on real events,” is written in capital letters on the ‘Shark Season’ movie poster. A bad sign, because often such one-liners are meant to convince people who normally don’t like the genre. Because if a shark movie is based on real events, it probably won’t be so gory and made with respect for the bereaved. However?

New. ‘Shark Season’ was born from the mind of director Jared Cohn. This filmmaker took a newspaper clipping about a shark attack as the starting point for this film and supplemented the story with his own fantasy. ‘Shark Season’ especially sounds very much like ‘Jaws’. In this pulp film, a sleepy coastal town is also terrorized by sharks. The help of shark hunters and marine biologists is needed to stop these sea monsters.

In addition to reality as a source of inspiration, actor Michael Madsen must also serve as an attraction. This best man has lost his mojo for years and can only be enjoyed in Tarantino films. The American is not very good in this film. He doesn’t feel like it and doesn’t succeed in creating a character worth mentioning. Now he doesn’t get any solid counterplay from the cast full of C-garments.

‘Shark Season’ is a production from the Asylum stable. This film studio deals in cheap pulp films that are made for an apple and an egg and often piggyback on the success of blockbusters. For example, weak clones of ‘The Avengers’ (‘The Avengers Grimm’), ‘Transformers’ (‘Transmorphers’) and other hit films (‘Titanic 2’) are continuously being canned. Most of the money is pumped into the cases, making these B-movies look like big blockbusters. In the hope that ignorant (grand) parents accidentally buy a fake instead of the real deal. Do not. ‘Shark Season’ is an incredibly dull film with bad acting, stupid special effects and an excruciatingly bad story.