Cocaine Shark Review by alysewax: A Terrible & Lazy B-Movie
in the theaters earlier this year, it was only a matter of time before other animals fell victim to narcotics and B-movie excess.
But Cocaine Shark, from director Mark Polonia, isn’t a story of sharks who can’t say ‘no’ to drugs. It centers on a narcotic made from shark gland, the gangsters eager to traffic it, and the hapless mutant-shark-thing caught in the middle.The story isn’t what you probably expect. First off, there are no actual sharks in this film. There are shark mutants, yes, but not even a bit of fearsome shark b-roll.
Anything one could call “filmcraft” is amateur at best. Camerawork is poor, with cheap and ugly digital photography. The acting is flat across the board, with actors so focused on saying the right words they don’t put any life into it. Many of the scenes are over-lit, with characters shiny, orange, blown out, or some combination of the three.
The monster scenes were few and far between. Every once in a while, there’s a shot of a cheap shark monster “swimming” across the screen. This same shot is repeated over and over, often times with no narrative explanation. I would estimate that there was only about 5% of screen time devoted to monsters. I can appreciate terrible effects , but these were almost non-existent.
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