Somehow, The Asylum stumbled their way into making a trilogy of films about Megalodon sharks, with the third and last entry so far being last year’s Megalodon: The Frenzy.
I say “stumbled” because i seriously doubt they planned any of this at all, but Megalodon Rising was indeed a sequel to their own 2018 Megalodon film, and this one starts with a recap to get you up to speed and confirm that the events of the previous movie happened.
…not sure entirely to what end, as the plot itself doesn’t have returning characters from either Rising or the 2018 movie, and is about how a submarine mission meant to establish a supply of clean geoenergy from an underwater volcano ends up causing a fissure in the seabed, accidentally unleashing 5 megalodons that wreak havoc.
They do eventually reference the events of Rising and the 2018 film, and the USS King, damaged after the finale of Rising comes into play, but then is now helmed by a character played by Eric Roberts… problem is he wasn’t in Rising, but since the lead characters died in the finale, i guess he was on ship and took over, whatever, who cares, now Eric Robert is manning the ship, in this “it was supposed to be filmed for the finale of the previous movie, but wasn’t” intro.
Whatever keeps him to star into A Talking Cat?! 2: Paws Of Fury, i guess.
The first had the russians as enemies, the second had the chinese, what foreign enemy to the US of fuckin A we have this time?
Actually, the biggest enemy is the awful ass script that will most likely put the audience to sleep, while stealing another page from the first Deep Blue Sea.
Yeah, no third faction to the fight, we already “upped the ante” by having 5 + megalodons, who cares if having human antagonist would have helped to keep the viewer’s attention?
Even more than before, you’ll have to contend with a tiny bit of shitty CG shark kills or action and a LOT of people in very cheap navy uniforms talking boring bollocks or spouting dull exposition, because talk is cheaper than showing, so much some scenes of the sharks attacks early on are just described second-hand by Eric Roberts or his posse of two-three lone remaining Marines.
It IS one of those Asylum movies with Eric Roberts in it, it’s a weird conforting solace to see him still not giving an absolute shit and doing these movies for mere paycheck and i guess to stay busy, plus it’s extra hilarious how he’s mostly in this movie doing Marines-style action movie speeches to rile up morale and there’s just two, maximum three guys on the ENTIRE battleship answering.
Couldn’t even cast 5 random dudes to react to Roberts’ bullshit dialogue or to pretend the ship is actually still somehow manned? XD
and of course it’s still filmed on the same fuckin tourist-focused old warship the previous two films were, the USS Iowa to be precis, i could expect/guess that from a mile away and if i’m a wrong, they just hopped on a different anchored tourist warship, meaning it’s virtually – and factually – the same thing.
come on, i’m sure you can get some publicity if for the next one you go to visit one of the WW 2 Japanese warships, who knows, you might even get a Sharknado X Kantai Collection collaboration event going on. Anything, even pick a different old warship now used mostly for tourism, i’m sure there are some in America as well.
One that you don’t make up like the cutely named USS Fragasso, which is kinda insulting because at least Fragasso’s notorious pile of crap movies is far better and more memorable than these modern days Asylum joint that lack even the energy to proper leech off a more popular IP, to properly do even a mockbuster of the latest hot thing.
But i’ve already said that many times, so i’ll cut to the chase and while this is no exception to the company’s recent trend of not putting even a modicum of effort….honestly it’s kinda surprising how bad Megalodon The Frenzy is, i remember at least being able to squeeze some fun from the previous Megalodon movies of theirs, but here the obvious tactic of having most of the film 3-4 max people talking about shit in what’s supposedly a control room (without any shots of the screens because that would make the budget baloon 20 bucks or something) and occasionally bits of crappy CGI sharks cutting into has gotten beyond old.
Blowing their load on the effects’ budget in the intro (which is a recurring issue in modern Asylum movies) doesn’t help either, but at least the previous two movies had the spy elements, something else to it, but this one cut manages to be even worse than usual for The Asylum’s own standards in pretty much every regard, just a bad, boring slog, as somehow this series actually keeps getting worse all around AND less fun by each installment.
Even the second-hand washed-out glory of Eric Robers approaching his roles by not giving a fuck is not much of a consolation when – on top of it being routine as well by now – it’s all so bloody boring and comatose, atrocious even for the company’s own subterranean quality standards.
Don’t bother, skip this one entirely.
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