Shark Hunter (2001)
A young boy seeks answers after witnessing his family get taken out by a massive sea creature. Years later, he is a marine researcher who looks to use his expertise and some corporate money to help find the elusive creature that killed his family, the long-extinct Megalodon. Shark Hunter is a 2001 underwater thriller directed by Matt Codd and starring Antonio Sabato, Jr. Shark Hunter was released a few years after Deep Blue Sea and predates the big studio film The Meg by 17 years and is one of the first movies to utilize a Megalodon shark. The sets look great and mimic the style of movies like Alien, The Abyss, and Leviathan. At the same time, Sabato and co-star Heather Marie Marsden don't look like shark experts; the sub-driver Grand Bush delivers the best performance and is the best actor in the movie. The underwater scenes were done with footage slowed down as there was a lack of bubbles in many scenes. While it is not a major studio release, Shark Hunter looks like it had some money for the lavish sets. Still, like so many other copycat shark movies, it suffers from plot issues and an ocean full of scientific inaccuracies. Nonetheless, this movie is much better than the many cheap shark movies released in the past decade.
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