![]() ![]() ![]() Cisco and Esquerra purposely overwrite him as the outsider who won't acknowledge the harm his corporation brought to an otherwise peaceful Mexican fishing village, but he's just abysmally grating. Josh Lucas stars as oil company exec Paul Sturges, one of recent memory's most detestable lead characters. There are characters you love to hate, and then there are characters who hang around and drag a movie down when all you want to see them become is shark food. Aztec mythology only keeps the outrageous shark-attack-on-a-mostly-vacated-oil-rig premise afloat for so long, since mentions of Tlaloc (God of Rain) or symbolic idols aren't interesting enough to distract from the waterlogged nonsense of this anti-corporate commentary with rows of dull teeth. ![]() Unfortunately, inspirations from whispered tales don't amount to excitement due to a host of issues that plague most swing-and-miss shark movies that come out nowadays. ![]() Writers Carlos Cisco and Boise Esquerra adapt Mexico's ferocious El Demonio Negro legend into a generic eco-aquatic-thriller, pulling from fishermen stories about a freakishly large great white or megalodon that haunts its waters, including the Gulf of California. Meg 2: The Trench doesn’t need to worry about Adrian Grunberg's much smaller-scale The Black Demon stealing its megalodon movie thunder. ![]()
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