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Summary: Kill Switch Click
Review: I think the DVD cover - seen above - says a lot about this film. Note how the title text resembles a cheap television documentary about dangerous insects, and note how the image of the shark has been very badly composited with Photoshop into the picture, to make it look larger and more ferocious than it does in the film. As for the film itself, it's dismal. Not much of substance happens - the shark appears at the beginning (although it's too dark to see), and at the end, but the middle of the film is essentially a lengthy soap opera with lots of false scares that aren't scary. The climax, incorporating footage from the original 'Jaws' (something that will make you gag - 'Jaws' was and is a classic film, whereas this is dreck), is confusing and unexciting - Michael Caine repeatedly presses a button on a radio transmitter, and that's it. It gets a little kudos for being a proper sequel to the first couple of Jaws films - 'Jaws 3D' was, apart from having a shark in it, unrelated - but it's neither bad enough to be funny or interesting enough to watch. If there's such a thing as a Jaws completist, you'll buy this, but for everybody else I suggest you steer clear. It marked the epitome of Michael Caine's 'I'm taking this role to pay for an extension to my house - okay?' period, too.
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Summary: A shark outswims a plane. Can't beat that!
Review: What can you say about a movie this bad? Ok, the loyalists will now stand up and say - "no, Jaws 4 is really incredible!"This one is just plain dumb.
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Summary: THE SCARIEST JAWS YET
Review: What makes the JAWS franchise such a rarity in Hollywood is that each installment has managed to be better than the one that immediately preceded it. JAWS THE REVENGE is no exception. This chapter picks up the story of Sheriff Brody's widow, (played once again by the marvelous Lorraine Gary), who finds herself the intended victim of a vengeful shark who'll stop at nothing to even the score with the comely lass, even following her plane from smalltown Amity to the beaches of the Bahamas. The result is a contemporary shocker with more chills than the first three JAWS put together. Academy Award Winner Michael Caine has never been better.
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Summary: Just when you thought it was safe to see another sequel...
Review: The only thing missing was the scene where Lorraine Gary looks out of the window of the 747 at 20,000 feet to see a tiny shark fin protruding from the waves of the Atlantic pursuing the plane to the Bahamas! A word of advice: move to Kansas! This script is so ludicrous it must have been written by a six-year-old kid while playing with his action figures in the bathtub. I was half expecting to see Robert Shaw getting regurgitated from the mouth of the shark so he could come back and reprise his role as Quint from the first film, give another mind-blowing 10 minute monologue, avenge himself upon the shark for eating him and save the movie from absolute stupidity.
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Summary: Jaws?
Review: I bought this DVD as one of many in a new collection of DVD's.The plot line is ok,yet the "special effect" aren't very good. Certain parts you can really tell the mechanical shark is in action. Overall not too bad. Camera angles could be better. My 12 year old likes it.
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Summary: This "Revenge" is barely preferable to Montezuma's
Review: Set years after "Jaws 2", (I don't know where "Jaws 3" fits in) where widowed Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) lives happily in Amity with youngest son Sean who's now a police deputy. Her contented life is shattered when Sean is killed by a great white on Christmas Eve while trying to clear a channel marker. She flees to the Bahamas to eldest son Michael (Lance Guest) where he works as a marine biologist. The shark manages to follow her from Martha's Vineyard to the Bahamas in three days. Pretty amazing, considering that sharks don't like warm water in the first place. That's the first of many flaws in this movie, and Roger Ebert took the time to list each one in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times. Michael Caine is wasted as carefree pilot Hoagie, in whom Ellen takes a romantic interest. Film does have a slick look and great scenery in the Bahamas, but the shark doesn't look real and is about as frightening as a rubber duckie. Michael Caine declined to appear in person to accept his Academy Award for "Hannah and her Sisters" because of this movie. That move alone might have killed the career of a lesser actor. Kind of neat how he emerged from a sinking airplane with his clothes fully dry.
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Summary: Jaws 4: The Ridiculous!
Review: The Jaws franchise would never recover from this sequel. If you ask me, I don't believe that a Jaws sequel should always have to include a member of the Brody family. I feel the same way about Sigorney Weaver in the 'Alien' series. It doesn't add any freshness or a sense of originality if you just continue to use the same human characters again and again and again, because lets face it, the shark is the real star in the movie. I say we give it some fresh meat and pitch the leftovers! This series has the potential to do so much better than this, and it's a travesty to see what it has become. On the other hand, perhaps it's for the best. The jaws series did nothing but demonzie sharks, especially Great Whites, and have placed them, in various areas around the globe, on the endangered species list. I'm not saying that the Jaws movies were directly responsible for this. Lots are killed due to sloppy fishing methods, that target anything and everything in the ocean. But I sure would like it if the next Jaws movie didn't spout so much nonsense about sharks. I mean, have you watched the trailers. Some of the lines describing the Great Whites are ludicrous! "A mindless eating machine, that will attack and devour anything!" Followed by that line about God creating the devil, and giving him JAWS!" Marine biologists probably go nuts hearing crap like that, and any kind of animal lover probably would too. Just because they aren't cute and cuddley doesn't mean they should lose their right to live. And I would hate to imagine a world where those majestic predators no longer roam the ocean depths. At the very least, the jaws movies should have a message before the movie telling viewers that it is completley unrealistic, and that sharks do not behave in the manners they potray them. If Universal does attempt to resurrect the Jaws franchise, they should try to make the shark a little more believable, and I'm not just talking about its appearance. And loose the Brody family as well. Start fresh, and get rid of that 70's attitude about sharks.
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Summary: Not the best
Review: This movie is not very good because the shark looks way to fake. This movies plot is very unbelivable and very unrealistic. The shark is in Hawaii for god sakes it shouldnt be very fast because the water is warm and Great Whites are warm blooded and hence dont like the waters.
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Summary: Enjoy it for what it is . . . Escapist entertainment
Review: OK . . . so the storyline about the Great White Shark following the surviving members of the Brody family to the Bahamas is ridiculous . . . folks, this is escapist entertainment, pure and simple. Those looking for something deep and profound should look elsewhere. What a nice surprise the Goodtimes DVD turns out to be . . . the widescreen aspect ratio reveals some beautiful photography and is a vast improvement over Goodtimes' LP-speed VHS cassette. Interestingly, up until Universal's DVD release of the original "Jaws" for the 25th anniversary in the late Spring of 2000, "Jaws, The Revenge" was the first and only DVD available in the four film saga. One wonders whether Jaws 2 and Jaws 3 will ever be released on DVD. Maybe Goodtimes will come to the rescue. The Goodtimes DVD offers no extras other than the usual chapter breaks and English/French/Spanish subtitles.
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Summary: I wanted to write another online review.
Review: Sharks are not gangsters or hitmen. The part when Mrs. Brody said "It came for him." How about the shark moving to the Bahamas same time she did to wreak haoc and get it's revenge for it's "family." People, this is a shark, not a psychic. Or a mobster. for the sake of arguement. The shark looked better than the shark in Jaws 3. Some of the attacks are alright. The banana boat attack was probably the best part in the movie. Something else that made the movie fall. How did Jake survive the attack? An animal that big would have bitten him in half with little effort. Also, great whites are not found in the Bahamas. Water is too warm. This movie was meant to be a thriller but it failed badly. For a cold, snowy night go ahead and watch it. Otherwise spend your money on a Big Mac.
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