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.

Ghost Voyage

This is supposed to be a movie about how you can get a second chance at life, if you can see the error of your ways.  I wish that I had a second chance to decide to watch this movie.

 

The movie opens with a couple of thugs going to loot the other people in the room while they are still unconscious.  Everybody wakes up on a boat, nobody knows why they are there.  The steward gives them the rules of the ship.  Do Not Breach Any Closed Doors.  Do Not Go Into The Captain's Quarters.  Do Not Refuse Any Orders From A Member Of The Crew.  No Smoking.  And they mean no smoking.  The first guy to go outside, lights up, and gets taken out by his own smoke.

 

The good thing about this movie is that it is not very predictable.  The bad thing about this movie is that it jumps from scene to scene so much that you lose interest in the characters quick.  The drug user goes off to get a hit and he gets attacked.  He dies rather strangely because he ages first before he dies.  No others in the movie have that happen to them.  The blond and the movie producer go into the captain's quarters, so ... yes, they die.  The two thugs who were looting the other passengers try to smoke out the steward and they breach a door, ... dead.  It keeps going on like that throughout the movie, but there are no real quality kill scenes.

 

The two passengers who find their own faults are then given a second chance and then the cycle repeats with new passengers.  Yawn.  Don't waste your time with this one.  Unless you have trouble falling asleep.

 

I give this movie 0 out of 5 ships at sea.