“Jaws: The Revenge” feels like a fan film based on the popular “Jaws” franchise… and a terrible one at that. This movie is audience insulting in every single way thinkable and virtually none of it makes any sense as it blatantly butchers the already wounded “Jaws” name.
“Jaws: The Revenge” features Ellen Brody (Loraine Gary “Jaws”) who starts hallucinating about sharks after her son Sean is killed by yet another shark. This new shark looks like a big piece of rubber and probably is, also now it’s filmed from above the film so it lacks any realism and this shark is also telepathic as it tracks her wherever she goes. Her other son Michael (Lance Guest “Halloween II”) is a scientist in the Bahamas and works at sea but then the shark has come to kill him and all Brodys.
Ellen is an incredibly boring character and it is ridiculous to believe that she can be haunted by events down to the smallest detail despite the fact she didn’t witness them. Michael is an awful character and his dialog is beyond boring. Hoagie played by Michael Caine (“Batman Begins”) is boring too due to the weak dialog. The most interesting character is the shark.
The movie tries to rip-off so many scenes from the first two movies in attempt to cash in the series’ success but instead of even getting a mildly amusing movie we get a boring experience that reminds that life is very short and precious and shouldn’t be wasted on rubbish like this. Not scary, not funny and not believable this “Jaws” movie is. The movie captures none of the suspense of the original. I think Bart Simpson said it best when he said ‘that sucks and blows’ and why say something more sophisticated as something like that is far more mature than this lousy shark movie. Not only is this the worst “Jaws” movie but it might also be the worst movie with a shark in it.