And let’s not even bother comparing it to Jaws (1975), although serious shark movie aficionados will recognize a major plot point that has been lifted from Jaws 3-D (1983).
It’s not as howlingly awful as Jaws 3-D or Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! but for the $150 million USD and however many millions of yuan Warner Brothers’ Chinese cohorts-cum-financiers Gravity Pictures threw into this summer action flick, it should by all rights be more flat-out fun.