BLUE DEMON

In the waters off the California coast, the government has tasked a team of scientists with creating a breed of genetically modified sharks to combat Russian terrorism by sea. The project is called "Blue Demon" and involves training and controlling the sharks, made more intelligent and aggressive, to identify and defuse explosives in the waters of the sea. But not everything goes according to plan and six sharks, not yet ready for action, escape from the research center and sow terror among the bathers. We assure the gentle reader that the plot described above is not the result of an excess of irony from the reviewer, but that some madman, in the suburbs of American B-movie productions, has actually had the courage to finance a film like this. "Blue Demon" exists! It is one of the many products that are bought, inserted by chance, perhaps at bargain prices, in the stock of our local distributors and then anonymously thrown into the crowded home video market. Already the idea of making a film with genetically modified sharks is of a unique desolation; a theme seen and revisited so many times since Spielberg gave us that great film that is "Jaws", that the viewer now knows every single step and every possible development that this type of films can take. If we then add a variant to the story that is not far from a celluloid joke, then we have a complete picture of why this film should be absolutely avoided. But how can you combine an aquatic beast movie with the contemporary fear of terrorism without descending into the most absolute ridicule? Probably you can't, and this film is the demonstration. Trained sharks to defuse bombs? Probably this is the stupidest idea ever appeared in a serious film. Then the film is filled with idiocies: a team of government scientists consisting of three and a half people (one of them is a dwarf) who more than anything else seem like the editorial team of "Mad magazine"; an army officer (played by Jeff Fahey, an old glory of the 90s B-movies), with a permanent cigar in his mouth, characterized as a parody of the classic decorated officer all in one piece. To conclude, one can notice a CGI realization of the sharks among the most fake and amateurish ever appeared in a film, things that if realized with a software bought at the discount for a few euros, better results would be obtained. Naturally, to the impossible far-fetched screenplay and disastrous special effects, are added a bland direction (by Daniel Grodnik), a sitcom television cast and not even a single sequence of suspense. To be seen only by trash cultists and audiovisual masochists.