Abysmal Movie. Review on Jaws 3-D Movie

Jaws 3D was probably best viewed in the cinema when it was first released. It had the extremely novel idea of incorporating 3D technology so that the action seemed to pop out at you from the screen, thus sopposedly heightening your cinematic experience. Watching it now however, it looks incredibly dated,and without 3D-specs some of the scenes seem pointless and badly filmed.

This is the third of the four(?) Jaws movies, in which a great white shark wreaks havoc upon a bunch of humans who simply refuse to stay out of the water despite warnings. In this particular version, Roy Schneider has been left out of the cast(thankfully) to be replaced by a much younger group of actors - no doubt in a thinly veiled attempt to attract the younger audience to whom watching a movie with 3D glasses on would appeal. Jaws never really had much of a plot, and none of the sequels have improved upon this. Here, an underwater aqua park is the setting for the movie. The great white, with a taste for humans, attacks the park(after a dreadfully slow begining) and causes mayhem to ensue. They hunt it down, who will win...thats it.

Its not the most impressive plot, but then no one watches a Jaws movie to see much of a plot - that just gets in the way. We want the suspense and the shark attacks! However, this movie fails to deliver on both counts. It looked promising from the first attack, but this was poorly executed and the first example of the 3D technology being used was laughable. An extended scene of a disembodied arm floating in the water is surely not the best way to use this. Now a shark flying helter skelter full on at the camera using 3D would have been an obvious and superb use - it never happens. The 'arm scene' without 3D specs looks like 1950's special fx technology - ridiculously bad and had me laughing out loud. This sort of thing continues throughout the movie, we have a submarine vehicle type thing drifting around like something out of Thunderbirds, an extremely unonvincing shark which moves at the speed of a crippled toroise and some really daft scenes. Dolphins rescue people by dragging them along clutching their dorsal fin, a diver outruns the shark by pulling himself along a rope - hwo this shark ever managed to catch anything moving at this speed is amazing...the list is endless.

The original Jaws had suspense by the bucketload. It was original and it was pretty damn scary. It looks dated now but its still good. This movie has all the flaws of the original (rubber shark, naff acting) but then loses its charms as well. The 3D effects could have been superb, but instead have been employed in the most pointless places just to say that they have been used. They are too few and far between as well to even justify their inclusion. The whole plot is stupid(although Deep Blue Sea has completely ripped it off since) and the ending hilarious and predictable. look for soem early performances by well known actors, but other than that don't bother.