Sea World in Florida opens a new attraction called the Undersea Kingdom. Soon a Sea World diver named Shelby Overman disappers and Michael and Kathryn, a couple who both works at Sea World goes into the Undersea Kingdom to try and find out what happened to him. In the water they discover a young great white shark, and they decide to take it back to Sea World and be the only ones in the world who has a great white in captivity. Later on the young shark dies and Overman's body is found, and when looking and the body, Kathryn is convinced that the young shark couldn't have done it. They soon discover that the mother of the young shark, a 35 foot long murderous great white is also inside the Undersea Kingdom, and suddenly everyone at Sea World are in great danger.
Lately I've been watching way too many new flashy horror movies so I figured that it was time to take a look at some old crap, and crap it surely is. Haven't seen Jaws 3 for a very long time, I had forgotten everything this movie was about, and maybe I should have kept things that way, but now it's too late anyway. Of course it's not even comparable to Jaws, none of the sequels are, but at least it wasn't so boring that I had to turn it off. Although, it's quite dull to say the least.
Only reason you would watch a flick like this is either for the suspense, or for the killings and the gore, or both. And even though it has a few kinda cool scenes the suspense is nowhere to be found, and the gore is of course non-existant. What irritated me the most when watching Jaws 3 was that there are so many scenes when people are falling into the water and the great white is swimming around but does not attack. What is that about? Counting all the people that are splashing around and falling into the water when the shark is around, the body count could've been great but instead it ends up being everything that is opposite to great.
We get to follow Dennis Quaid and his girlfriend who's a marine biologist, both of them working at Sea World that is owned by Louis Gossett Jr. Dennis Quaid is not one of my fave actors but he's actually pretty likable here. They soon discover that a 35 foot long great white shark has entered the Undersea Kingdom and is attacking (or at least should be attacking) everything around it. Also a group of people who are going on a guided tour gets stuck in the underwater tunnels so they have to try and save them, evacuate Sea World and somehow find a way to get rid of the killer shark.
The story is actually somewhat ok to follow, but the lack of suspense is just too great. Also when things finally are happening, they don't seem to have that much to them either. As I said earlier, there are a few cool scenes featuring the shark, but that never really takes it anywhere and turns out to be just one lame scene after another. Also the lack of blood and actual kills are just too big for one to fully be able to enjoy the movie. It actually feels a bit like this movie was made for kids with all the happy dolphins and that kind of stuff.
What it has going for it is that it's over pretty fast and even if it's dull, it's not really a snore. It's just too bad that the shark is such a sissy and doesn't kill more people. Sometimes it goes towards being a bit nasty, but every time that's about to happen, it manages to switch over into Disney mode, and we all know what that's like, uuuhh..
Jaws is still a good shark flick but the rest are unfortunately not nearly as good. Jaws 3 is a tiny bit entertaining at times but way too lame for one to fully be able to enjoy. Also the 3D stuff look like complete crap, I didn't have any glasses or whatever on and I didn't watch it in a theater, but I don't think it would've had come out any different in the end.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Jaws 3D
MOVIE YEAR: 1983
DIRECTOR: Joe Alves
WRITING CREDITS: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Louis Gossett Jr.
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 99 min
RATING: 2/10
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