Sharknado

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Sharknado
Starring Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard, Cassandra Scerbo
Directed by Anthony Ferrante

Fin (Ian Ziering) is the other of a seaside bar and former surfing champion whose living a good life, until one day when a freak hurricane hits the California shore, unleashing deadly tornadoes and sharks in the city.  Together with his friend and fellow employee, he sets out to save his ex wife (Tara Reid), his son and daughter from the onslaught of the shark apocalypse.

To take anything seriously in this film is taking it for granted.  For some reason its hit a sensational cult status, but it's probably because those people were either heavily intoxicated or high when they were watching this, because you'd have to be either to even remotely enjoy this piece of trash.

The directing is something a high school art student could do.  In the first scenes you see Fin far away and you can clearly tell its a stunt double, and all the closeups of Ian Ziering shows it was clearly done on a stage with a stationary boat.  Also throughout the film there's scenes where the sharks are swimming down flooded streets, but the next scene the same streets are almost completely dry.  Best one is an ocean of blood, but the next scene the same ocean is clear blue.  This is a continuity nightmare from start to finish.

The acting is passable, but the effects are - as they usually are in a SyFy Original - completely laughable.  Nothing like seeing a tornado on a bright sunny day.  Or sharks so horribly computer generated you couldn't even tell what they were.  It all takes away from any "realism" the movie tries to portray. 

My Rating: D+

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