| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
An environmentalist’s wet-dream of a movie: Greedy corporate interests polluting the environment with horror-movie consequences.
For a Jaws’ rip-off, this is an unusually-intelligent movie. It possesses a fine script from John SAYLES that deftly walks the tightrope between socially-concerned polemic and monster-movie thrills.
Director Lewis Teague handles it all with great aplomb and the high quality of the casting and characterization is remarkable. No performer puts a foot wrong in a film that they could easily have decided was to be undertaken just for the money. Moreover, White imperialism, male pattern baldness and the vicissitudes of heterosexual relations are stirred into this enjoyably-entertaining mix.
The special effects are suitably and believably gruesome and the whole affair has a great deal of wit and of not-taking-itself-too-seriously to compensate for the inevitable cliches and credibility lapses so typical (&, perhaps, so enjoyable) of the genre.
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