Blood Surf

Better than Crocodile !
Blood surfing, the new extreme sport of this millennium. Get some cheesy, overacted surfer dudes and throw them in some shark infested, chum laden water and let them go. Sounds like the makings for a fun action/adventure/horror movie. But Trimark apparently wasn't convinced; they wanted more, so the director gave them more.

After just barely getting out of the water without becoming lunch, the "brooding" surfer dives back in to save the beautiful camera lady from the increasingly wild group of sharks. Narrowly dodging both tooth and fin the crew all make it to the surface alive, and after witnessing what seems to be a brutal inter water grudge match between warring jaws clans, they decide to call it a day, and head inland...........Where they are attacked by a group of Colombian terrorist, Rambo's friend stealing paramilitary types, captured, brought back to their boat and threatened with rape and torture.

You can almost hear the pitch guy, sweating dripping from his brow...

Hardly a good movie, but entertaining.
A group of young people go to a tropical island to "blood surf", cut themselves and surf in shark-infested waters and make a documentary about it. Soon they realize that there's not only sharks, but also a gigantic crocodile, eating everybody who trespasses his area. It also has some subplot about some modern day pirates and a revengeful sightseeing boat captain.

The screenplay is very silly and quite bad. The lead characters are stupid (otherwise they wouldn't be blood surfing) and don't seem to care much when some of their friends gets killed. Most of the actors are mediocre at best, except for Katie Fischer, who plays the photographer, Cecily. The editing is also quite poor and manages to ruin one scene that could have been quite cool. The worst thing about the movie, however, is probably the extremely bad crocodile FX. It doesn't even move its legs while swimming.

So, this is not a good movie, and I didn't expect it to be. Still, it is entertaining enough to be a painless way...

Flawed Fun
My personal enjoyment rating: 6 out of 10

My recommendation rating: 5.5 out of 10. Explanation of recommendation rating: "You'll probably enjoy this film only if you're a hardcore fan of the genre. More than its share of flaws. Serious genre fans should use caution and all others should stay away."

The premise (modified from the box description): Follow an MTV style filmmaker as she and her crew shoot an expose of the latest, most dangerous craze in extreme sports-bloodsurfing, or surfing in shark infested waters while intentionally trying to attract the creatures. While trying to shoot in Australia, the crew encounters non-cooperative locals and various kinds of relationship problems. They also get more than they bargained for while bloodsurfing in an isolated location. Not only are the sharks putting them at risk, but there just may be a legendary monster in the water.

"Mish-mash" describes this film better than such a non-technical term should. The premise is...

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