jellopuke
Pretty terrible all around with laughable effects, bad acting, and a total disregard for any originality. That said, there are a couple of saving graces, like the part when the newscaster laments the lack of good shark footage and his cameraman says "just put in some stock footage, no one will know the difference" which is EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO IN THIS MOVIE! Barely watchable, there are at least a couple of good kills, but other than that, not much here.
Idiot-Deluxe
Notice: Laughter is a requirement when watching this movie.Let's rip -The Last Shark- shall we.My, my, just WHAT have we uncovered here?! Why it's none other than "The Last Shark"......this riotously funny and exceedingly poorly made JAWS rip-off has to be the ultimate "big fake-looking shark movie". This movie is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME in it's complete and utter terribleness, truly pathetic in every way, it seems to showboat (and even celebrate) it's own ineptitude, which spans from start to finish; and THE EFFECTS, oh my the effects are hilariously terrible. This awful Italian-made "aqua-shlock" most certainly lands squarely in the category of: "It's so bad, it's good". But at the very least it is exceptionally entertaining -but for all the wrong reasons.With my recent discovery of this Italian-made JAWS rip-off from the early-80's, (thanks to the guys at Rifftrax) all of the sudden the last two JAWS sequels, don't seem all that bad in comparison and that's really saying a lot, as those two movies suck badly. This is further proof that in the 80's, the Italian's were simply unbeatable at producing horribly lame rip-off films of well-known Hollywood blockbusters and The Last Shark is a prime-time example of that. Where to start, there isn't one single aspect of this preposterously illogical film, that was handled with any obvious skill or talent - especially in the effect's department! And let us not forget the music of The Last Shark, which is nothing more then some ones LAME and ineffective attempt at "shark music" - produced by Casio keyboard's by the sound of it. From a musical prospective one can just sense the envy and jealousy John Williams must harbor for this movie and of the incomparable musical statement that it makes. In fact, this movie is such a blatant rip-off of JAWS, that Universal Studio (that's the JAWS studio for the few of you who don't know) blocked it's release in the States and it's not hard to see why. I've seen a good deal many Italian-made movies, particularly from the 80's and they are always embarrassing spectacles, with little to no money or talent and laughably poor production values. Stick to making spaghetti and sports car's guys, movie's just aren't your thing.I usually like to avoid detailed plot summaries, so I'll just give you chunks of The Last Shark as I go. Well it's based around JAWS and it's familiar plot scheme's, so there's an Italian Amity Island equivalent, that's being terrorized by a big fake-looking robotic shark (and they show that thing a lot too), there's a political figure in there to complicate and obstruct the flow of things, various people on boats, wind surfers and in helicopters, that all fall prey to the shark, usually because of their own massive stupidity and poor/ illogical planning. This Italian-made faux-JAWS even has it's own "Quint", played by the late (and soon to literally lose his head) Vic Morrow. In all fairness his ability to imitate Robert Shaw's character was pretty spot on, however, much of his dialog is very difficult to make out, dare I say it's unintelligible. Getting back to the massive stupidity of the victims, all the Islanders are totally gung-ho about killing the shark, THEY ALL want to TAKE ON the shark and it's in these highly entertaining attack sequences, that you'll see some of thee worst-looking shark effects ever committed to film. They are INTENSELY funny and the faker the effects look, the funnier the movie seems to get. The Last Shark is a riotously entertaining, cinematic whirl-wind of terrible effects, stodgy acting, illogical situations, 80's mustaches, very poorly matched live shark footage, appallingly lame attempts at suspense music, etc. And in the end this epic slice of aqua-shlock comes to a head in an explosive finale - poorly done, of course, just like the rest of the movie.Once you've seen this bogus, Italian-made, stinking pile of sh** JAWS rip-off - I think you'll arrive at the only conclusion possible, which is "Yep, movie's don't get much worse than The Last Shark".Flash-forward: For those of you who got a kick out The Last Shark, I strongly recommended that you track down a copy of "Orca", (that's right, killer whales this time around) this movie, just like The Last Shark, has incredibly bad effects and reaches unhinged levels of highly illogical lunacy. Expect to see Richard Harris square off against a vengeful killer whale, that seems to have, of all things, human-like intelligence.
Uriah43
This movie begins with several teenagers enjoying a day at the beach with one particular person practicing for a wind surfing contest which is scheduled to begin in a couple of days. Fate has other plans however as a great white shark happens to be in the area and crushes the surfboard and devours the young man in the process. Later, after examining part of the surfboard a knowledgeable boat captain identifies the teeth marks found upon it and tells the leadership of the local town what is responsible. Unfortunately, the local mayor by the name of "William Wells" (Joshua Sinclair) has no plans for stopping the race because it would have an impact upon his political plans. So he devises a plan to keep the shark out of the area but what he doesn't count on is the incredible size and power of the creature which manages to get inside the cove in spite of it all. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie I will just say that as a "Jaws clone" this movie totally lacked originality and imagination. As a matter of fact, if one were to fuse parts of "Jaws" with other parts of "Jaws 2" it would greatly resemble this particular film—minus the better acting and special effects. Naturally, there were a few slightly different scenarios here and there but for the most part it pretty much adhered to the same general themes presented previously. In any case, while there is only so much one can do with a story involving a large shark--other than having it devour those in the area—the similarities to the earlier films just mentioned were much too obvious to be easily ignored or dismissed and as a result I have to rate this movie accordingly. Below average.
