The food chain just got flipped.
3D Aussie horror about a group of shoppers forced into survival mode when a freak tsunami traps them in a flooded supermarket, along with a Great White shark. Starring Sharni Vinson (Step Up 3D), Phoebe Tonkin (Tomorrow, When the War Began) and Xavier Samuel (Twilight: Eclipse).
Mighty Ape
Blu-ray 3D
$52.99
Full disclosure: a high concept shark thriller will have me onboard just by being a high concept shark thriller. And the concept behind this movie is so high it makes Deep Blue Sea look like Howard's End. Supermarket + armed robbers + tsunami + sharks = a film that would have to go out of its way to be boring. More
And it never is. Boring that is. Bait explores its admirably wacko plot with a mostly straight face, allowing some degree of genuine tension to build. There's a touch of wry humour here and there, but not enough to make you doubt the filmmakers' sincerity.
Xavier Samuel of The Loved Ones and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse leads a cast that includes more than its fair share of rising Aussie talent in the form of Chronicle lead Alex Russell and Phoebe Tonkin from Tomorrow When The War Began and The Vampire Diaries.
The character dynamics are mostly rote and sometimes ridiculous – especially when it comes to the two armed robbers. Dan Wyllie's shouty, grating performance as the more unhinged of the pair is so completely over the top it manages to obscure the almost-as-terrible work being done by Julian McMahon as his partner.
A film like this hinges on how well it exploits the impossible scenario faced by its characters and the quality of the kill scenes. In both of these regards, Bait does okay. It's not spectacular, but it is good enough to see on the big screen.
Plus it's much more fun than last year's high concept shark thriller, Shark Night 3D. That film broke my heart. Hide
Think this is absolutely a genre film for a specific audience and I think it will deliver to that audience. Full review.
Rendall and screenwriters Russell Mulcahy and John Kim forget that in between bursts of tart, blood-drenched mayhem, there's a saggy, dumb chamber drama that's completely bland and under-seasoned. Full review.
The film is a throwback to the heyday of the Australian exploitation movie. Full review.
Bait 3D needs to put aside the forced poignancy and attain full great bad movie status. Or at least let the sharks eat more characters. Full review.
This likable trash occasionally outsmarts more moneyed Hollywood fish features. Full review.
[It] has many flaws, the foremost among these is the inability to indicate whether we're supposed to consider the savage behavior brought on by its crises as ambiguous or unassailably good. Full review.
Chompy, bloody fun. It may be about a shark, but Bait 3D is no Jaws. Full review.
This could be terrible or it could be awesome...
lame when are they going to stop making these films
freakin awesome
I lol-ed
A shark....like in a shopping mall....a female shark looking for shoes! makes sense to me!
What a hoot! Why is it circling? It's looking for the deli meats!!!!!
Lol tsunami and sharks!
lame CGI
this looks freaking awesome!! can't wait to see it! such a smart storyline!
cool movie
Wow all I can say is "That's a new storyline!" I don't know if I an manage the suspense in cinema so I will stick with daylight DVD :)
i wonder if that guy survived?
I feel like I don't need to see the movie after that.
Is aiming for trashy-fun but just ends up looking trashy.
I've been waiting for this movie for sooooooooooo long :) girls from h20 just add water lol
had potential to be awsome, but bombed...BIGTIME!!.....terrible effects...bad story...few gory kills...but not much else....