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Jaws: The Revenge

Jaws: The Revenge

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Joseph Sargent's Jaws : The Revenge- This Time It's Personal
Review: This was once again, a dissapointing movie. I went into Blockbuster and rented this to check it out. Actually this movie wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It starts with Sean Brody(Mitchell Anderson) gets killed by a Great White Shark during Christmas time. We find out that Martin Brody(Roy Scheider) has been dead for years. After Sean's funeral, Ellen Brody(Lorraine Gary) goes to The Bahamas to see her son Michael(Lance Guest) and his wife Carla(Karen Young). She also meets Hoagie(Michael Caine) and falls for him. Michael and his Marine Biologist Partner Jake(Mario Van Peebles) discover a Great White Shark in the ocean and plan to kill it. When Ellen witnesses a shark attack, she goes out to sea to stop this shark once and for all....

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Horrible, horrible movie!
Review: "Jaws - The Revenge" is just plain and simple a bad movie.
Lorrain Gary and Michael Cain are actors I respect and admire for their work on other films, and that is why it is so hard for me to find a logical reason why either one of them would participate in this mess of a sequel. One can only hope that they simply had too much faith in the director and honestly believed that he would make a good movie. And even then, the script would have sent most serious actors on the run.

First of all the plot is unbelieveably poorly conceived. Even if you accept the concept of a shark having a vendetta against a particular family, the story is so full of holes and illogical twists that you end up sitting in front of the sceen in utter disbelief: Ellen Brody has flasbacks to incidents where she wasn't present?! The pilot Hoagy actually chrashes his plain into the ocean to rescue Ellen (this is laugh-out-loud-funny if you actually consider how ridicules it is), and subsequently survives being trapped inside the plane while the shark is attacking him, then swims to the boat in prestine condition?!
Jake somehow survives being dragged into the ocean, lodged between the shark's teeth, with massive bite wounds and blood loss?! What?...it just let him go? Oh, I forget, the REAL target is still Ellen Brody, who feels she has to sacrifice herself in order to stop the killings. The shark then tries to kill her by leaping unto the boat (much as in the original JAWS) but not until it has managed to stand still in the water raised on its tail long enough for Ellen to ram into it, with so much speed that it actually BLOWS up.

Need I say more? But it doesn't end here. The plot is completely horrendous. Then the least you could hope for is that the action scenes were somewhat well executed. But no, not even that is the director able to pull off. First of all the shark looks entirely fake, making it impossible to have proper footage of it, rendering many of the scenes ineffective. On top of that the scenes are so poorly constructed that no suspense or real "action" is gained from them. The camera angles are flat and unfocused, the editing is illogical and robs the sequences of any natural narrative flow.

In the end you have to be a really, really, REALLY big JAWS fan to enjoy this film, and even then I find it hard to justify actually liking it. The original was a masterpiece of action and suspense, the second one was pretty good, the third was a bit embarassing - but this last chapter (so far) of the JAWS saga is so bad I think most people just want to forget it ever happened.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jaws the Revenge
Review: i bought Jaws the revenge yesterday on DVD, and i haven't seen it yet, but i will. i've seen the movie, but not on DVD. anyway, Jaws the revenge is a good movie. at the time it cam out, it still scared me. the problem is that Jaws 1 and 2 were so good, people expected almost to much from 3 and 4. the only corny thing about Jaws 3 is when the shark breaks the glass. it's so [unreal].
in Jaws the Revenge, the only real corny scene is the when Jaws dies.
here's the problem. there are like 5 different versions of the ending.

1-the shark is struck by the broken off wooden pole on the boat and takes the boat under with him.

2-the shark explodes! they [took] from the first Jaws. as soon as the ple enters him, he explodes. [take] of the first Jaws.

3-Jaws is struck, and the boat breaks in half and then he goes under.

that's the only thing i don't like.
to many different endings, but overall, Jaws the revenge is a good movie. not the best Jaws movie, but it's a good movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Another sequel gone bad
Review: JAWS IV is just another sequel gone bad. Stick with the original JAWS.

Basically here is the plot - the youngest Brody, Sean, is killed by a great white shark in Amity. Michael Brody - the oldest son - comes to Amity with his wife and child from the Bahamas. Ellen Brody goes to the Bahamas for a visit where another shark begins terrozing her family.

I guess one of the drawbacks of this film is this: There are two endings to this movie. Of course you never see them in the same film. The character of "Jake" is killed in one version - he lives in another.

As a JAWS fan, I found this movie to be partially entertaining but mostly disappointed with the acting, especially Lorraine Gray and Michael Caine. Also, the entire idea that two sharks come into contact with the Brody family is too non-believable. Or is the producer telling us that he expects us to believe the shark from Amity is the same shark from the Bahamas???

Again, stick with the original. You find a better movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This Fish Stinks.
Review: By the time this movie was made, most of the other cast and crew from the first Jaws had gone on to other things. Roy and Richard had become good actors and were doing other movies, Steven Spielberg was off directing other movies, Peter Benchley was writing other books, at least two of the lead actors had passed on. Robert Shaw and Murry Hamilton. But Universal said lets make one more Jaws film, and Lorraine Gary, a good actress agreed to star in it. What a bad choice to make...because this movie sank like a leaky boat with a bad screenplay and a stupid idea of a shark seeking revenge on the Brody family. Forget this movie AS WELL AS JAWS 2 AND 3, AND JUST STAY WITH THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY JAWS.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: jaws 4 the revenge
Review: Nothing wrong with this tape, Sure comparing to the movies now a days jaws is not scary, But for when it was made it was.like us all jaws had its day ,Everyone finds fault with it but I enjoy watching it,

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Toothless
Review: Martin Brody is now no longer with us, but his wife and sons, the boys now grown-up, live on. However, it isn't long before another Great White turns up to put a spoke in the wheel of family tranquility. When this film begins, you are given the impression it's going to be good. The title sequence has some eerily impressive camera-work, and the younger Brody brother's death scene is dramatic. But after that, the whole thing descends into soppy, thrill-less slush. The storyline is a total nonsense. A shark follows Ellen Brody to the Caribbean to reek revenge for the death of its relatives, Ellen has flashbacks of her husband killing the first Jaws - funny, I don't remember her being around to witness that, and very little seems to happen for most of the film. Michael "I'll appear in any old twaddle for a few readies" Caine hams it up like there's no tomorrow, characters seem to die and then magically return from the dead and the ending makes no sense whatsoever. People complain about the special effects in Jaws 3D? The effects here are worse. The full-size shark model, which seems to float several feet above the water in a few shots, is quite obviously only a head. Might be worth watching if you're a fan of sharks, but this is pretty tame stuff.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This does not make any sense!!
Review: OK people! The jaws movies are good. From the first to the third,but...Jaws the revenge is wierd! It is a very good movie,but there are "things" witch are strange! The gigantic shark in the film are like it came from hell.As you can read the name on the movie is just how it is.The shark search revenge on the Brody famil.As we all know,a grait white live in pretty cold water,but this "Deamon shark" persuit the Brody famely to Bahamas,and that's not all.As we also know is that sharks does not have a ability to make any sounds like a dinosaur our anything else.They are stumb.Well..this Shark roar like a T.rex,rediciules huh?? And i dont think a shark would exploude when you ram it whit a sailing boat,but this does.These are those things i find "FISHY" but there are two endings in this film and i prefear the second ending.However,Jaws the revenge are a fantastic movie!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: More big sharks!
Review: this movie whas ok untill the end.The shark showed himselve a lot more than in the first one.The weird thing with this movie is that the shark could be the devil our something like it couse it search for revenge! It may sound mystic but it is patetic! A big and hungry shark cant thingk that way! One more stange thing with this "so kalled shark!" is that it roar! The shark roar like a T.rex oure something and that is impossible! And the most bad thing is that the shark blows up when it get ramed by a boat.
Decide for your selve and see it if you have to..but if you not are a fanatic "Jaws" fan,i whoud stay back.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Shark Revenge??
Review: Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) is convinced that the same kind of shark that attacked her husband and kids in the past is out to finish her family off in this mediocre third sequel to the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic. When he youngest son, now taking over for his father as sheriff of Amity Island, is killed by a shark while investigating wreckage in Amity Harbor on Christmas Eve, Gary escapes with her other son Mike (Lance Guest) for the Bahamas, and meets up with a congenial local airplane pilot (Michael Caine).

But Mr. Whitey isn't through with the Brody family just yet. The result is a series of admittedly scary but otherwise thoroughly pedestrian shock sequences, topped off by flashbacks experienced by Gary to events that she never even witnessed (!!) and a climax that is both totally unbelievable and rather disgusting.

JAWS 4 does boast a good music score by Michael Small, and is directed well enough by Joseph Sargent, a journeyman director who has made at least two great films prior to this--1970's COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT, and 1974's THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE-TWO-THREE. But his cause is hindered by Michael De Guzman's inert screenplay, which simply uses the revenge format as a raison d'etre for the scares and the killings. Like JAWS 3, its immediate predecessor, this film is admittedly watchable. But that is ALL it is.


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