I don't know if it is good or bad that I do not read the plot summary on these movies before I watch them. By looking at the title, I would have thought that a group of hammerhead sharks got together and started terrorizing a group of college kids or something like that. But, I would have been totally wrong. This movie is about the genetic alteration of a man's genes spliced with the genes of a hammerhead shark to try to cure disease and put humans into the oceans.
Before I get started, let me just say, "Oh c'mon, man!"
The evil scientist who has enough money to buy an island, build a research facility there, and also able to employ several security personnel, is experimenting with the DNA of his son. The scientist is mad at the owner of the research facility that he was fired from and has invited him and several other guests to come to the island to see the progress that he has made with his experiments. So far, so good.
Things take a turn for the worst when the scientist decides to kill all of his guests and use them as food for the sharkman that he has created. The guests escape via the convenience of the vent fan that happens to have a ladder next to it too. Inevitably, the guests are killed off by the sharkman or otherwise. Shocker there, I know.
The thing that killed me was the head of IT, Tom (played by William Forsythe). For a guy who is in charge of the IT Department, he is not what you would expect. He is a take charge kind of guy. I suppose dating Hunter Tylo made him a little more aggressive. However, any way that you slice it, this movie is a stinker. Buckets of fake blood thrown against a tree do not count as a moment of fear. The explosions at the end of the movie must have been the bulk of the budget. Some explosions are real, some are digital. It is just not enough "wow" factor for me.
I give this movie 1/2 out of 5 microscopes powerful enough to see the individual strands of DNA.
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