Yes, still ANOTHER Shark movie. And this one’s absolutely insane, pushing the envelope of horror, violence, and nudity. I don’t normally review these types of films, but I thought, what the heck, after a few beers with the guys, why not? How bad can it be, right?
First off, I don’t know why so many shark movies have surfaced and why so many people are fascinated with them. We now have an endless series of shark films: sand sharks, ghost sharks, giant sharks, toxic sharks, lava sharks, octo-sharks, and yes, two-, five-, and six-headed sharks (how’s that work exactly?). But I digress. To sink your teeth into Sky Sharks, you need to let go of all preconceived notions of shark reality.
Okay, here goes. Try to follow the pretzel logic of Sky Sharks if you can. A group of explorers discovers a lost Nazi warship frozen in the artic. And surprise, we learn Nazis were never actually defeated. They just concealed themselves in their subterranean lab to create a superweapon—flying sharks piloted by undead Nazi soldiers.
In the big intro sequence, skeletal-faced helmeted soldiers ride on mechanically enhanced super sharks and surround a passenger jet. They break in and start hacking passengers up like butchers on PCP. Next, we see strings of undead Nazis hanging in stasis waiting to be energized. In another gruesome scene, a naked woman hangs upside down at the arm of a zombie Nazi as a shark devours her piece by piece. Needless to say, Sky Sharks needs its strong R rating to keep the kids away.
Helmed by Marc Fehse, the film must have started as a high-concept, low-budget feature, a next-in-line rip-off of Sharknado. But there are so many directions this film takes, that you’re left with a ‘what-the-hell-is-goin’-on’ face.
The production values take you realistically into the film with some pretty good CGI. And the well-choreographed fight sequences and gore gags satisfy your arrested development days. But the story is as disjointed as a mechanical shark, its tail-finning erratically from zombie film to Nazi film to soft porn.
The other problem is that Sky Sharks takes itself a bit too seriously. Speilberg’s Jaws you can take seriously, a Sharknado knock-off, not so much. Discounting its wooden performances and overly ambitious reach into so many underdeveloped subplots, Sky Sharks delivers what it promised on the publicity poster—Zombie Nazis flying on mechanically enhanced great whites eating anything that gets in their way.
After a few beers and halfway through Sky Sharks, you and your buddies’ll bite into your pizzas, imitating a shark while the wives and girlfriends shake their heads and grab the remote.
Alex A. Kecskes is a published author of "Healer a Novel" available on Amazon. He has written hundreds of film reviews and celebrity interviews for a wide variety of online and print outlets. He has covered red carpet premieres and Comic-Con events for major films and independent releases.
Great review….Finally, an unbiased opinion of the all too “over the top” shark genre films. Sounds like the Flying Sharks could possibly soon morph into cult status like: “Plan 9 from Outer Space”.