Shark in Venice

Location, location, location.  Not Venice, Louisiana.  Not Venice, Florida.  Not even Venice, California.  No.  This is Venice, Italy.  Which makes me wonder, ... who lost a bet?

Our buddy, Stephen Baldwin returns to Medusa's Face with this lovely show set in Italy.  It's more about treasure hunting than a shark.  A great white shark, roaming the canals of Venice.  Lovely.

Turns out that Stephen's dad (in the movie) was working for the mafia to locate and retrieve a lost treasure.  While making his last dive, the dad and his two side kicks are eaten by the shark that was placed in the canal by the mafia guy.  He wanted to keep other divers away from the sunken treasure.

Stephen hears of his father's death and travels to Italy with his fiance.  No real reason for her to go, other than getting to go to Italy.  Oh, .. and she is used as a hostage later.  It doesn't really matter.  The real fun in this movie happens mid-movie when Stephen is being chased by the mafia hit men.  Watching this one scene as it unfolded, I could tell that A) the stuntman tried his best to avoid having the camera catch his face, which happened; B) some of the same action clips were used at the beginning of the scene as well as at the end of the scene; and C) in the middle of a heated chase, it is always best to come out of the shadows so that the people chasing you can see you.

What a joke.  And I am not even going to begin to talk about the file footage of the shark used in the movie.  That would just be wrong.  Or the four scenes of Venice used over and over during the wide shots.

You see, ... this is a bad movie.  Real bad.  But so bad, that it is great.  I would never recommend watching this movie.  Really.  It's that bad.  This movie lacked a digital shark to fight.  In fact, I don't even remember if they killed the shark or not.  The title of this movie is misleading.  It's more about the mafia guy searching for a lost treasure than a shark.  However, it is in Venice and there is a shark there, .. so I guess that makes it okay.

I give this movie 2 out of 5 scarfs.