Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

f-wedell Honestly, with the movie going on I'm becoming more and more speechless. How in the world could someone produce a movie like this other than being completely drunk.So please do not watch this one unless you really don't have anything else to do and/or are drunk - I guess it could be somewhat enjoyable in that case xD------------------------- Spoiler alert!!! -------------------------It all begins with the never ending stigma of a sheriffs daughter that isn't getting enough love from daddy. Of course his wife had died a few years before and he doesn't like his daughters boyfriend. Well - Some mega-mutant snakehead-fish kill both the boyfriend and some other dude with + his dog. Not that they're just killing them, they're completely lacerating them. So far so good. The good sheriff goes to visit the city's major to convince him of sealing the whole lake off. Which seems to be kind of a good idea given the fact that it looks like there's some pretty feisty little animal out there. The completely ridiculously appearing major whatsoever sends him away, saying that it would be bad for the economy of the city to do so. The sheriff isn't happy with that but moves on. Understandably, cause, I mean what could possibly go wrong, right? Some days and corpses later it all becomes a public event. Hundreds of fishermen come cheerfully into the little city to see what's behind that story of the Mutant-Snakeheads. They even hand out T-Shirts ("I survived the snakehead terror")As a matter of course, the sheriffs daughter - who doesn't seem to be that broken-hearted after all - decides to go hunt for the Snakeheads. The next hour is pretty simple to describe. Some dude had punched growth hormones into the see for months to help the fish grow for economic reasons. Little sheriff's daughter gets in trouble. More and more people die - "epic" fight in the end of which I must admit, that it's outcome really leaves the viewer happy...-> ...cause it meant the movie was finally over.

cat-that-goes-by-himself Err... Well... Frankly this flick is bad, even for a B movie. Not enough humor (intentional or not), a sad lack of imagination, terribly hollow characters and very uninspired acting. Not bad enough to be unintentionally funny, either.For the rest, you get what you could expect from an animal terror movie with low budget and an emphasis on quantity over quality.The only good moment was when a couple of teenage girls started wading in fish entrails using a combination of ax and shotgun while the male supporting character barely managed to avoid his genitals being turned into fish food.Had the survival of the fittest theory applied, the fish would have won. Maybe this was a political movie after all ?I found it sad to see Boxleitner spouting one uninspired line after the other with a slightly hesitant half smile. I'll go and re-watch a few Babylon 5 key episodes to wash away this disappointment.As for animal attack movies of the fishy kind, I recommend frankenfish instead.

grislygus This movie is one of the most unintentionally funny movies I have ever seen. Flagrant use of poor CGI and muppets make the movie hysterical. Beyond that, the main characters are pitifully incompetent at anything. You wonder just how stupid they are. The characters continue to ignore obvious solutions to tight situations and escape certain death with ridiculous ploys.Don't get me wrong. I loved this movie. I was in hysterics throughout the entire thing. Mutant fish puppets attacking a bumbling populace is quite a sight to see. Midway through the film, a man is spied by our sheriff to be emptying a container of liquid into the lake. He looks through his binoculars, and sees that the words "HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE" are printed on the side of the container in friendly red letters. One could think that you could not possibly beat that moment of pure ludicrousness, but the movie easily surpasses it in an insanely funny climax.This movie is destined to be the cult classic of cult classics.

bababear For a Sunday afternoon cable movie, this was actually pretty good. Nice scenery. Bruce Boxlietner (who looks more and more like Bill Clinton...spooky) and former supermodel Carol Alt gave decent performances. And there were a few clichés that were avoided. Doc (the actor who was the Cigarette-Smoking Man on X-FILES) was behind the whole mess but he wound up arrested instead of being fed to the fish. The sheriff and the scientist didn't fall in love. Best of all, the sort of dopey deputy who had a crush on the scientist didn't get fed to the fish either. The mayor (who had really neat eyebrows) channeled Murray Hamilton long enough to give his little speech about how the town needs the tourist business so the beach must not be closed) and then vanishes from the plot.Sure, this wasn't that original. The writer and director have obviously seen JAWS many times. The scene with the upside-down boat proved that (and there's no way I'd ever fire a gun while standing on an overturned boat but I guess a good guy's gun doesn't have recoil). There were some major plot holes in that this seemed to be a rather tiny town but people like the guy from the local newspaper and his photographer could go missing and people didn't think it strange. The final siege in the house was very much like THE KILLER SHREWS, but that may have been coincidence. And the ending was lifted whole cloth from JAWS 2 except the electricity went to the critters instead of one critter chomping down on a bazillion watt power line.But in its own way it was fun. And compared to the usual Sci-Fi Channel movies it was a work of brilliance. With the exception of TERMINAL INVASION most of their original movies haven't been just tired, they've been exhausted.Maybe with this one the actors had a nice vacation and got in some boating and fishing on their days off. And for a made for TV movie there's a surprising lot of blood and gore, both fish and human. The shot of the headless corpse spurting blood on the windshield was memorable, to say the least.Best of all, this wasn't so dependent on computer generated effects. I've seen too many movies on that station that looked like video games.Look for the appearance by the singing wall-mounted fish in the house where the final siege takes place. It sings "Don't Worry, Be Happy," and is a very nice touch.Turn your brain off, get some snacks (or some sushi if you really want to get into it) and enjoy.