![]() The acting talents performed well enough with the limitations imposed on them by the script and storyline. Now, I am not saying that it was the acting that was bad, but it was the characters themselves, so writer Ashley O'Neil hardly created outstanding or lovable characters for the movie. I disliked many of the characters portrayed in the movie, as well as the dialogue they were dishing out. The characters in the movie were rather annoying and seemed to be more stupid than necessary for the purpose of entertainment. And who knows, "Toxic Shark" might happen to be one such movie, despite its goofy title. Although in all fairness, then SyFy do put out the occasional impressive movie. And the fact that this is a SyFy movie hardly works in favor of the movie in general. And lets face it, "Toxic Shark" hardly screams top notch movie. So of course I do sit down to watch the shark movies that I stumble upon, regardless of how silly the title might make the movie appear. 4/10 Bethany CoxĪdmittedly I am a sucker for creature features, and I have always been fascinated with sharks. Overall, one can do with far worse but still pretty lacklustre. Personally thought the zombie subplot didn't fit that well and was particularly silly. The story is too thin, not much of one at all actually and with such a deja vu feeling throughout, and silly, also dull at times due to some extraneous padding and lack of emotional investment. ![]() As said already, the writing is mostly poor and the characters, despite the actors' best efforts, don't make much impression. The overused gratuity of the content is another factor. ![]() It does hurt the impact of the attack scenes, which have no tension, suspense or menace at all (the unintentional humour being tiresome and predictable by now), and the shark, which is too goofy to be scary and too bland to be fun. The shark effects are not as bad as in a lot of other shark attack films, but they are still cheap, looking goofy and incomplete. 'Toxic Shark' does look both drab and garish and that it was made in haste and with minimal budget is obvious. ![]() Visually on the other hand, only the scenery passes muster. Having said that, the acting (though far from exceptional) is better than that in most of SyFy's output, doing an ok job with what they have and not being as amateurish as feared. Mostly the script is poor, mostly very banal, overly cheesy and without much natural flow, and the characters are not very interesting or rootable ones (a mix of bland and annoying or even both). The opening sequence is pretty fun, and does indicate at least a guilty pleasure film, and there are a few witty lines too (already making it better than the usual terrible writing in a SyFy film). Good things are outweighed by the bad things, but that there are any at all is nice to see. 'Toxic Shark' is one of those lacklustre and far from good efforts of theirs (wouldn't say that it is one of their best even), but it is not a dreadful or unwatchable one, actually showing a little effort and some mild fun which does already put it above their usual standard. There are far worse SyFy films than 'Toxic Shark' and certainly far worse shark attack films. SyFy do oddly enough have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out. There is always curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and something compulsive about their output's badness. Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of SyFy's output, even when taking it for what it is or at least trying to be (which it rarely succeeds at doing).
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