Jackson Booth-Millard
The first film in the series, Giant Octopus, was rubbish, as was the sequel, Crocosaurus, the low-budget Mega Shark movie franchise, made before the awful Sharknado series, continued with this third instalment of nonsense. Basically a tugboat pulling a huge iceberg arrives at a port in Alexandria, Egypt, but the iceberg shatters and releases a megalodon from suspended animation, it begins to reign terror, flipping the tugboat, launching it miles away to Giza and decapacitating the head of the Sphinx. Countries worldwide put their ports on lockdown, and the United Nations propose to develop a weapon to combat the shark. At Pearl Harbor, Jack Turner (Stargate SG-1's Christopher Judge) and Rosie Gray (Elisabeth Röhm) will pilot Mecha Shark, a new untested prototype submarine that resembles the megalodon. The megalodon is confirmed to be in the South China Sea, battleships the USS Charles and the USS Charles Davis rendezvous with the Mecha Shark to attack the mega shark, torpedoes are launched, but the Virginia is inadvertently sunk. Following the failed operation, Jack installs special A.I. named "Nero" (Paul Anderson) into Mecha Shark's computer system, while the megalodon strikes the AR Event Horizon oil platform off the coast of Australia, triggering an oil spill. While Rosie takes Mecha Shark back into the water to engage with the giant shark, Jack and Admiral Engleberg (Matt Lagan) have a heated argument about whether to seal the oil pipeline or continue the pursuit of the shark, Rosie uses the submarine to seal the leak. Mecha Shark and mega shark then engage in battle, the megalodon is able to swerve a launched torpedo, which ends up hitting and sinking a ship, then another failed torpedo launch causes a landslide, which sends the submarine offline, and knocks Rosie unconscious. The Nero system notifies Jack of the situation, but the submarine manages to blast its way out of the debris, while the shark attacks another of the attack ships and destroys it. With Rosie unconscious, it is suggested that the Nero system can control the Mecha Shark by itself, but when it returns to sea, it is badly damaged by the megalodon. Rosie wakes up, and Dr. Emma MacNeil (singer Debbie Gibson) warns that the shark is heading to Sydney, Australia, Nero goes back online following a malfunction, and heads there to engage with the giant creature. But Nero malfunctions again, this time, the Mecha Shark enters Drone Mode, a fail-safe system programmed to complete its task without the safety protocols, after another attack from the megalodon, the robotic submarine goes back online and determines all humans in sight as a threat. The Mecha Shark goes on a rampage through the city, Emma calls Rosie and suggests luring the malfunctioned submarine back to the ocean, where the mega shark will attack it, the megalodon meanwhile sinks the Charles Davis, killing Admiral Engleberg and everyone aboard. The Mecha Shark is blasted back into the water by a squadron of fighter planes, Jack boards a second shark submarine to help, the shark triggers a dislodged torpedo, destroying both the creature and the Mecha Shark, and Jack reveals to Rosie that he copied Nero's system into a flash drive. Also starring Beejan Land as Roy, Kate Avery as Sergeant Brooks, Hannah Levien as Sandy and Emma Rose Maloney as Stacy. I may have recognised a face or two in the cast, but it doesn't matter, and the special effects are only the tiniest bit improved, but they are wasted, a giant shark versus a robotic shark sub with the personality of KITT from Knight Rider is ridiculous, as before it is awful, a stupid story, and a waste of time science-fiction horror. Poor!
Michael O'Keefe
Sci-Fi usually provides a doom and gloom situation involving a menace other than human. The terror is usually caused in part by a witless person or one that thinks they know more than the average humanoid. Shark season will always be the harbinger of fear. A megalodon shark is thawed from its frozen imprisonment, of course, by human haphazard handling. The big ass fish lives for another spree of terror. And its hunger makes waters unsafe for every person or thing that gets in its way. It just so happens that the navy has been testing its recent creation of a prototype shark-like submarine named Nero. But is the machine able to contend with the living and breathing, swimming killing machine? You choose the degree of ridiculousness. Starring are: Elisabeth Rohm, Christopher Judge, Matt Lagan, Steve Hanks, Robert Sisko and Paul Anderson as the voice of Nero.
Rastus Niral
I cannot believe that this movie scores over 2. I understand that this is a "z" grade sci-fi flick, but seriously, it assumes that the viewer has an IQ of an amoeba. This "turkey" has more errors than Windows 3.1. For starters,1. Shark frozen in an ice berg being towed to a port in Egypt!!! 2. Botany Bay Australia does NOT have a fishing fleet. 3. A shark that can jump out of the water to chomp on a plane 30,000 feet in the air - REALLY??? 4. Same shark can redirect a torpedo fired from a submarine with its tail to sink a battle ship.This movie was not released, it escaped. This is so bad I could not even laugh at it. If you want to lose 90 minutes of your life, then go for it - you have been warned.
