When an exotic animal smuggler runs afoul of the police his
cargo is thrust into the nearby lake.
This cargo happens to be a bull shark and it’s found a new source of
meat which is human. This is the set up
for the film Shark Lake (2015) starring Dolph Lundgren as Clint Gray, the
so-called animal smuggler who gets five years in prison after he is caught by
the police. When he gets out of prison
his little daughter Carly (Lily Brooks O’Briant) has been adopted by the police
woman who captured him – Meredith Hernandez (Sara Malakul Lane), who will stop
at nothing to protect Carly from her criminal father.
Clint’s not out of prison for even a day before he realizes
that his shark has been killing the locals and that the original owner of the
shark (who also happens to be a mob boss) has waited five years for Clint to
return his property. Now Clint must find
a way to capture the shark before it kills any more people and before Meredith
puts him in jail for thinking he’s the same criminal he was before he went to
jail.
Besides being saddled with a mediocre script with nothing
remotely interesting or original, Lundgren seems to be going through the
motions in the film. He’s given nothing
to actually show off his talents and it seems as though he’s bored throughout
the entire film as if he’s just doing it for a paycheck which probably exactly
how he got involved in the film to begin with.
Most of his scenes seem shoehorned into a screenplay that focuses
primarily on Meredith and her obsession with protecting Carly from her father.
Unfortunately, Lane makes for a very unconvincing police officer
who ignores police procedure and breaks more rules than she enforces. Lane also doesn’t have the experience to be a
convincing lead for the film as well.
The character is bland and uninteresting. The CGI is also sub-par (which seems to be
the norm for these types of films) and most of the kills are off-screen and
surprisingly bloodless. For a killer
shark film this is a pretty bland affair better left floating in the water.
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