The number of shark movies out there is absolutely astounding. We’ve got everything from sharks in a tornado in “Sharknado” to Danny Trejo battling a multi-headed shark in “3-Headed Shark Attack” to sharks eating female prisoners in “Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre” to sharks protecting Noah’s ark in “Noah’s Shark”. It feels like anything and everything with sharks has been done. Now, we have “The Requin”, which sees Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless”, “The Crush”) trying to survive a shark attack.

Jaelyn (Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) are husband and wife on holiday at a beach tourist retreat in Vietnam. Jaelyn is still traumatised after suffering a miscarriage and hopes that this will be a trip to lift her spirits. However, a storm comes along and causes devastation. The couple try to find ways to survive the already challenging situation. Things get even more sinister turn when a shark begins to terrorise them.

The acting in this film is absolutely horrendous. Silverstone is just staggeringly bad. If you thought she was bad in “Batman & Robin”, she makes her younger self look like Oscar material in this travesty. Just every single frame of her performance here is so bafflingly awful that it almost reminded me of some of the surreal performances Nicolas Cage has delivered. James Tupper is completely forgettable as Kyle. The shark looks pretty pathetic in a lot of the shots. I’ve seen plenty of bad shark effects and while this isn’t the worst shark effects I’ve seen, it’s still noticeably poor. The shark also doesn’t feature nearly enough in this film. The shark has been used extensively in promotional material so I feel misled.

“The Requin” shows just how bloated the world of shark movies is. Who was sat there demanding a film where an ageing Alicia Silverstone fights a shark? In what universe did anybody need this? Aside from the absurdity of the premise, the film itself is so mundane. It’s also about as likely to draw tourists to Vietnam as “Rambo: First Blood Part II”.