Fiercely protective single-mom Meredith Hendricks happens to also be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market exotic species dealer named Clint, is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and the new man in her life, a biologist named Peter, begin to investigate these brutal attacks and discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. After a documentary crew is devoured when they don't take the threat seriously, it's up to Meredith, Peter, and the unlikely hero, Clint, to stop the most dangerous thing on the planet: A mother protecting its young. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake. Written by

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jamdifo from United States
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It amazes me that Jaws was made 40 years ago and its still the best shark movie ever made, even though effects have come a long way since then. While Jaws did everything right, this movie did everything wrong. With Dolph Lungren in this movie, I thought at least the special effects would be good. They are atrocious! The attacks are atrocious! The suspense is atrocious! And the acting is a bore! If I could have given a zero, I would. Totally forgettable.

One of the worst scenes was a shark barreling into the boat and the effect of water pouring in was laughable. Why did I waste 90 minutes of my life for this. Learn from my mistake and don't do the same.

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subxerogravity from United States
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As a kid from the 80's growing up in Lundgren's prime, I still find the man massive on the screen, especially when he's not doing a movie that evolves other action heroes, which I have not seen him do in a while.

The big man plays a convicted wild life trafficker trying to make contact with his daughter who's being protected by a small town sheriff who took her in after he went to jail. Now it seems only Lundgren can stop a shark infestation happening on the lake they all live on. I make it sound more action packed than it really is.

It's the most original antagonist Lundgren has ever faced. It's too bad the special effects on his antagonist was so crappy or they could have really had something good here.

It tries to be Jaws but nothing can top that. It rips of Piranha 3D, but at least those movies are not trying to be something they are not.

Although Shark Lake did have it's fun moments, like a Steve Irwin type who hunts down fish for the BBC, it's funny for all the wrong reasons.

With that said, It does have a, so bad it's good, quality to it, and is worth watching just to smile at how horrible it is.

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jackmeat from chicago
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My quick rating - 3,5/10. Really bad. I do appreciate the CGI swimmers against a underwater backdrop that has to be public domain video at this point. The movie is laughable to that level and the only shimmering glimpse of hope is the story? Did I really just say that? If you take away the stupid supposed horror element of normal sized bull sharks hanging out in a lake you actually have a somewhat interesting idea. The romance involves the dealer that sells exotic animals and something he lets lose in the water happens to have babies and is a shark. OK, dumb there, but when it is revealed for other purpose just seemed like the story warped two together since he did so to get back with his ex. OK, sounds dumb, but I saw a glimmer of hope, didn't say it was great. Either way, avoid this movie but maybe Jerry Duggan has something up his sleeve(if he hangs onto his screenplay writer) for something better.

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s3276169
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Shark Lake is a B grade flick without the bite found in mainstream films like Jaws.

This film relies too much on munch-able eye candy in the form of scantily clad men and women, where a proper storyline, lots of action and accompanying quality creature effects, would have taken it so much further.

The acting ranges from average through to awful. This film would have been much better, for example, without the fake English shark hunter. A clichéd characterization that would make any real Brit wince.

So is there any basis on which on recommend Shark Lake? Well, its not utterly dreadful but its action scenes are so watered down (pardon the pun), that what should have been the driving force, in a film of this kind, is mostly absent. Three out of ten from me.

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quincytheodore from Indonesia
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You have to appreciate Dolph Lundgren's tenacity to make movies, he churns out robust quantity of them in last year alone. Unfortunately, in Shark Lake he seems like just a famous name slapped into the title and poster, while being almost completely isolated from the main plot. The movie itself is appealingly bad, this is the level of sloppy presentation equal to random death scene in telenovela with silly fake shark fin, which admittedly surprising to see outside cartoon.

It all goes down in a formulaic monster movie plot, if you haven't predicted it already, there's a lake and shark on it. Cue the montage of silly party girls, stupid death scenes, incompetent authority figure, but wait, it has Dolph Lundgren. However, he's more of a subplot, separated from the rest. It's almost like an average action portion glued to a monster movie.

This is pretty disappointing since the best spark the movie has is the simple family drama. No one would form connection to plastic shark, but audience may relate to Dolph Lundgren as the ex-con trying to bond with her estranged little daughter. It is the closest to sincerity on this movie, yet it occurs too little too late.

Concerning the actual threat, it's undeniably horrible. The visual is incredibly bad, using cheap editing, poor animation effect and actual fake shark fin. The corpse of mechanical Jaws rolls on its watery grave. One can even see the drop in quality when transitioning from day to night. It looks so fake that it would've worked as parody, yet the movie insists on the gritty dark look, it's a bit sad really.

Shark Lake is, by no intention of itself, a parody of Jaws. The brief appearance from Dolph Lundgren can't save it and merely serves as timid advertisement.

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Flow from Romania
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Man I can not believe in 2015 those CGIs are still allowed to appear on screen. I do understand that sometimes you're on a tight budget, but come one, if you going to make a movie about a shark, well...these guys right here couldn't even make a decent flipper. I mean seriously, even that is pc made, which makes this movie, quite a joke.

There is a plot to it, there is an well known actor but not the star of the movie, and a quarter of execution here, as well as all the boredom you can imagine. It wanted to be a shark movie, and it failed by all means possible, and the shark... it was bad.

I mean, I'm going to recommend you Shark Night 3d, or Bait, both cheesy movies that are so bad they're fun, and of course, little baby Jaws compared to Shark Lake.

Cheers!

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jackstupidjack
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When he was in his heyday in the mid to late 1980s, with a Bond and a Rocky smash behind him, it must have seemed to Lundgren that he would wind up in the 'Stallone/Schwarzenegger' bracket with strings of mega smash box office hits and multi million dollar contracts. Sadly for him, it didn't quite pan out that way with a stream of dreadful B movies coming his way instead from studios desperate to get a smash on their hands. If I were him I'd be looking to dish out a Drago style beating to my handlers for landing me a load of crappy roles in films with 'The XXXXX' in the title... A plus for him is that he isn't the worse performer in this pile of doo doo, which must be the dreadful female lead. The film is surprisingly good fun with all the silliness, cheese, and dreadful acting and ludicrous scripting you'd expect. The cinematography is also worth a mention, some of the nature shots are quite stunning. Harmless inoffensive twaddle at best.

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German Nikolas
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reading the name of the main actor on the cover was enough for me... (and his face from the side dominating the front cover)

the name Lundgren has become kind of a crap-movie certificate and guarantee for movies that are not worth watching. i wonder if he is aware of it. This movie made me really wonder what people think before they start such a project and i guess it goes something like this:

"hey! we want to produce a striking movie but we have neither the talent, great idea for the story or any money for a decent cast. So lets take a well known yesterdays tough guy actor and let him fight some computer animated monsters so we do not need to pay for anyone playing his opponent as a bad guy. just some cheap effects will do. That is all we can afford. maybe some idiots out there will buy it if we use the shark idea again."

for this "masterpiece" they taking cheap to another level by using computer animated sharks and let them swim in a fresh-water lake to keep the costs down even more. actually there are some good shark documentaries out there nowadays(with real sharks in the ocean) that show that these beautiful animals are worth saving and play a very important role in our eco-system and that they are not the aggressive killers ignorant people see them as. people with a little bit of sense are far better of watching one of those than this pile of rubbish.

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nikola17 from Australia
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i like the idea of Getting Action star in dark thriller shark movie Starting (Dolph Lundgren) as Clint a black-market exotic species dealer who got in jail for 5 years. Clint had a daughter (Lily Brooks O'Briant) Carly Gray also taken care form police offer who became mother Meredith Hernandez (as Sara Lane) (Sara Malakul Lane) a biologist named Peter, begin to investigate these brutal attacks and discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. After a documentary crew is devoured when they don't take the threat seriously, it's up to Meredith, Peter (Michael Aaron Milligan), and the unlikely hero, Clint, to stop the most dangerous thing on the planet. that's all plot felt like director wanted to do movie like jaws and mixed with shark night together these special effects and CGI looked so bad in film. it didn't look like it's been finished the movie is far to funny the shark's don't look so real at all the acting is OK Dolph Lundgren is Decent but rest of cast is like i don't care for Dolph Lundgren doesn't do anything in this movie he is only for every 1 hour doing noting at all it's more of Meredith character and daughter she toke, what in name it's a Dolph movie i mean it looks so excited to see movie with Dolph killing sharks movie doesn't really follow it where it should be ! very low budget what sharks really look like it's very bad special effects on sharks looked so fake. the action scenes only Dolph did is kick these 2 guys in butt and broke 1 guy in arm there's is not much action scenes or him killing sharks when he is water in awful scene him kicking it in face makes it stupid 1 boring action scene, there is not much to say about this movie because this is only thing i am going to write is this could have been better movie director had a good idea but movie is boring most unforgettable movie

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Wayne Kennedy from Andover, England
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It's not the worst movie ever made, but it may feature the worst CGI ever. At least movies like Sharknado don't take themselves seriously, and for that reason, they succeed in being entertaining at least.

Shark Lakes budget clearly went into paying Dolph Lundgren and while he's not exactly known for his acting abilities, this is probably the worst movie he has ever appeared in.

This movie has no humor, no likable characters and when you see the shark you will most likely want to turn off like I did. There is no reason to watch this movie, ever!

Do yourself a solid and just watch Jaws again if your looking for your shark fix!

Originally called and to be produced under the title "The Lake" with the story set at Lake Tahoe in Nevada. The title was changed among other things when the filming location was moved to Biloxi, Mississipppi.
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Feature film debut for commercial director Jerry Dugan.
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USA:Not Rated