“Sharknado” has a hilarious premise but everything else is shockingly bad. This another movie from production company The Asylum and this arguably become their biggest achievement as to date, there have been five sequels to “Sharknado”.

A hurricane off in the Pacific Ocean picks up countless sharks and soon the predators are raining down on Los Angeles. The city becomes severely flooded and now the sharks can attack from the sea, land and air. A group of survivors desperately tries to escape the carnage and find a way to end this horrendous nightmare so that thousands of lives can be spared.

The acting in “Sharknado” is truly atrocious. Tara Reid (“American Pie”, “The Big Lebowski”) gives arguably the worst performance in the entire film. John Heard (“Home Alone”, “Big”) also appears. Of course, you are not here to see the humans, you’re watching “Sharknado” for all the sharks. There are a lot of them as there a few different kinds including hammerhead sharks. We see the sharks getting flung at people by the storm. The special effects for the sharks are so terrible. It’s not quite “Birdemic” bad but it’s pretty darn bad. The sharks never look even remotely convincing in any shot.

“Sharknado” is a film that was made for television audiences so it’s got a low-budget. However, I’m sure the movie would have been greatly improved by not hiring Tara Reid and using whatever they paid her to improve the special effects or to hire a better writer. While the sharks look bad, all the special effects throughout the movie look horrific. There is some fun to be had seeing flying sharks blasted with shotguns and sliced into pieces with chainsaws but everything else just comes across as like the filmmakers didn’t care and just wanted to get this movie made as quickly as possible.