Teens head out to the Bayou for some weekend fun and discover that the Bayou has been infested with man eating sharks.
I went in thinking, "This is going to suck" and was not disappointed.
3 out of 10.
Now for tons of spoilers
Most of you won't see this movie, but I have to tell you this plot because it's stunningly bad.
Note: Modern horror movie rule #1 is to set it in an area that wouldn't have cell reception. They did this correctly.
There's this swim instructor who's the "hottie" in a community and all the rich girls want him. He falls for one in particular, and for whatever reason she ends their relationship. However, she went scuba diving with him one more time, and her tank ran out of air within minutes. She wanted help from him, but he stayed out of her reach and just watched her. She escaped to the boat and while running, cut his face with the prop. They play it up like he's horribly disfigured, but the guy has a small boo boo near his ear, that's it.
Anyway, 3 years later this girl brings a group of friends home and they travel to the island she lives on without incident. They go wake boarding and the first one in the water is the black guy. That had me laughing legit because you knew he was fucked per the rules of horror movies. Anyway, the shark chased him and kept knocking into his wake board until he crashed...you know, just like they do in the wild. It bit off his arm, and had to reveal itself so they knew they were facing sharks or because they're in the BAYOU you'd think it might have just been a gator.
So three of these kids jump into their speed boat with their injured friend and head to get help. Of course a shark hits it and knocks the black guy's hispanic fiance out and she gets eaten. So the writers were sure to injure/kill the two minorities immediately.
For some reason, the peeps on the boat retreat back to the island and the sharks keep attacking the boat by running into the fucking propellers. Seriously. They eventually do enough damage that they lose control and the boat is totaled.
Back on the island, help appears in the form of the swim coach and his new creepy friend who appears to be about 50 in a movie full of teens and 20-somethings. They take two of the teens off the island on their boat to go get them help.
Meanwhile, one armed black guy grabs a spear and walks out into the surf where he fights a hammerhead shark with his bare hands and a little assistance from the male lead. I'm not making this up.
Back on the boat running for help, it suddenly stops and swim coach and 50 year old creep reveal they're the main bad guys and they've brought the sharks into the bayou. Somehow they're behind the aggressive behavior, but I zoned that shit out in favor of playing Fallout: New Vegas.
Anyway, they shoot teen guy on their boat and he swims to a tree. He climbs up and a shark jumps out of the water to eat him.
They then get some cookie cutter sharks to eat the teen girl on the boat. Yes, cookie cutter sharks who are listed under "Least Concern" by the Oceanographic Institute or something like that. Picture a 20 year old man getting eaten by a half dozen of those stupid dogs that fit into purses. Same thing.
Now we find out the sheriff is in on it, and the only folks we have left are female lead, male lead, black guy, and white guy with very few lines. So white guy takes black guy via waverunner for help. Black guy falls off intentionally when he sees they're being chased by a shark. White guy ruins the sacrifice by turning around. Finally runs and a great white cuts him off, leaps out of the air and over the oncoming jetski, grabs the guy by the head, and lands back in the water with his meal. Just like in nature.
So male and female leads get taken captive by bad sheriff who then reveals the whole plot to male lead right before male lead makes his escape by feeding sheriff to a tiger shark. Here's the best part of the whole movie, and the moment you realize the stupidity involved, the plot is that they film these deaths because shark week on the Discovery channel had 20 million viewers, and they figure they can make money off folks who want to watch sharks eat people. Yes, someone spent 6-7 figures making a movie based on that premise.
Oh, and one of the funniest things in the film is to watch the black guy try to hide his arm that was bitten off. It's hilariously obvious throughout the movie.