Review: « Dangerous Animals » Mixar shark horror and serial murder
Joke the best you want about animal horror (a sufficiently charming sub-genre to inspire DVD boxes in the style of studio s-published « devil animal »), but the moving image’s love affair with ravenous predatory fish is undoubtedly of the more rich.
As you know, Steven Spielberg’s 50th anniversary « Hajen » (1975) became so popular that it laid the foundation for a new kind of big film machinery, the so-called blockbuster. A legacy that the Korean child song « Baby Shark » has managed to pass on so successfully that since November 2020 it has topped the list of most viewed Youtube videos.
So sure Writes « Dangerous Animals » entered a kiosk -scarf tradition when the owner of a shark swimming boat calms down two passengers by starting to sing on just « Baby Shark ». This is a shark that sharks, to paraphrase the charming children’s film from 2004. To differ from the crowd – small -scale Russian variants à la « Open Water (2003) and » 47 meters down « (2017) and more bombastic » Deep Blue Sea « (1999) (1999) (1999) and » The Mega « (1999) and » The Meg. Hybrid tracks.
In addition to working in the tourism industry, the boat owner also turns out to be a serial killer. When an American surprise girl (Hassie Harrison) wakes up in captivity, a survival struggle that is portrayed in parallel begins with a one -time league (Josh Heuston) rescue attempt.
The killer shows his right self with forested stare and hysterical smile. For him, the sacrificial ritual is a show under his direction …
The killer shows his right self with forested stare and hysterical smile. For him, the sacrificial ritual is a show under his auspices, as much a processing of a broken childhood as the shark accident he himself was with as a kid. Flat so it suggests, but what does it matter in this context? How important is the serial killer’s pathology in a shark horror?
By standing On two genre legs, « Dangerous Animals » try to make it easy for themselves. It’s like the screenwriter Nick Lepard started from a 1+1 logic, where a mediocre shark film in combination with a mediocre serial killer movie becomes stronger together. But the equation does not go together, too often water is trampled.
The bushy wild Jai Courtney in the lead role (launched as a young hunk in the early 2010s in « Die Hard »-and « Terminator » sequels) choose to invest at a comic angle which still enhances the film. His serial killer figure likes to hold small lectures on predators, theatrical passionate that only a movie psychopath can, but is so entertaining that even the weariest oneliner gets one to pull on the mouth. He screws up the clichés, simply. Have fun with them.
When the old shark accident comes up, he points out that it was not the shark’s fault. The relationship could have been like the one between a madman and his favorite weapon, but director Sean Byrne honors the respect of antagonist by turning pure horror scenes with more beautiful passages where sharks are filmed in slow motion to melancholy music. These small reminders of the natural beauty of the underwater life hardly make the film less sprawling, but unexpectedly nuanced.
See more: Haj movies with a twinkle in the eye. « Sharknado » (2013), « The Shallows » (2016), « Under Paris » (2024).
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