a5c7b9f00b Fiercely protective single-mom Meredith Hendricks happens to also be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market exotic species dealer named Clint, is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and the new man in her life, a biologist named Peter, begin to investigate these brutal attacks and discover that they&#39;re not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. After a documentary crew is devoured when they don&#39;t take the threat seriously, it&#39;s up to Meredith, Peter, and the unlikely hero, Clint, to stop the most dangerous thing on the planet: A mother protecting its young. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake. &#39;Shark Lake&#39; is a thought-provoking thriller set in the serenity of Lake Tahoe. The serenity is shattered when a local exotic animal collector, inadvertently releases one of his most treasured exotics into the area. A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, makes it her mission to capture the &quot;animal&quot; and bring the exotic animal collector to justice. A course of unlikely events shifts the focus to the relationship between a mother and her son and a father and his daughter. You have to appreciate Dolph Lundgren&#39;s tenacity to make movies, he churns out robust quantity of them in last year alone. Unfortunately, in Shark Lake he seems like just a famous name slapped into the title and poster, while being almost completely isolated from the main plot. The movie itself is appealingly bad, this is the level of sloppy presentation equal to random death scene in telenovela with silly fake shark fin, which admittedly surprising to see outside cartoon.<br/><br/>It all goes down in a formulaic monster movie plot, if you haven&#39;t predicted it already, there&#39;s a lake and shark on it. Cue the montage of silly party girls, stupid death scenes, incompetent authority figure, but wait, it has Dolph Lundgren. However, he&#39;s more of a subplot, separated from the rest. It&#39;s almost like an average action portion glued to a monster movie.<br/><br/>This is pretty disappointing since the best spark the movie has is the simple family drama. No one would form connection to plastic shark, but audience may relate to Dolph Lundgrenthe ex-con trying to bond with her estranged little daughter. It is the closest to sincerity on this movie, yet it occurs too little too late.<br/><br/>Concerning the actual threat, it&#39;s undeniably horrible. The visual is incredibly bad, using cheap editing, poor animation effect and actual fake shark fin. The corpse of mechanical Jaws rolls on its watery grave. One can even see the drop in quality when transitioning from day to night. It looks so fake that it would&#39;ve workedparody, yet the movie insists on the gritty dark look, it&#39;s a bit sad really.<br/><br/>Shark Lake is, by no intention of itself, a parody of Jaws. The brief appearance from Dolph Lundgren can&#39;t save it and merely servestimid advertisement. I watched the trailer alone. Now right off the bat, its not working for me and this is just on the trailer. Anyone who has visited or lives in Lake Tahoe will know. <br/><br/>I&#39;m shocked whoever produced this movie didn&#39;t know the facts first before even trying to film this movie. <br/><br/>1) You can&#39;t swim in Lake Tahoe in a bathing suit - the water temps are 59 degrees and lower. You start freezing to death after a few minutes.<br/><br/>2) Lake Tahoe is a fresh water lake. I didn&#39;t know there were such thingsfresh water sharks. Sharks are salt water…<br/><br/>I could go on, but won&#39;t. You get the idea.
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