Due to the recent Buzz on Facebook and Twitter, I decided I would watch the SyFy special, Sharknado. Being one of the largest mistakes I have ever made, Sharknado belongs in the bottom 100 films I have ever seen. The main problem I had with the film was not the story, although it had some obvious faults that I will mention later, but the overall tone of the film. For a film under the same production company as MegaShark vs. Crocasaurus and Sherlock Meets a Velociraptor I didn't really expect an amazing plot, but I also did not expect them to take the movie seriously. I have seen several movies with a silly idea that worked because they made sure it was more of a lighthearted concept, such as Cabin in the Woods where the film verges on comedy with how ridiculous the story is. This film fails because it is trying too hard to act like a real movie. The creators even had the balls to attempt character development! The movie is about tornados that rains sharks! There is no room for character development! What makes the characters even worse is how poorly they are portrayed by the "actors." I put that word in quotes because I don't think anyone in this film is acting. My guess is that they are all this robotic in real life. Tara Reid could have gotten acting lessons from Kristen Stewart and she would have gotten better. But I don't think she was placed into this film for her "acting" skills; she does have other assets after all. The fact that the film cuts from a scene where the characters talk about the death of a loved one, to a guy with a chainsaw cutting falling sharks from the sky completely negates any tension that was being built by the previous scene. I could see an excuse for this film being made if it had decent special effects, such as Transformers, but it doesn't. Why make a film like this if they can't even make the Sharknado look realistic or interesting in the movie? Now, about an hour and twenty minutes into the film, I was almost tempted into slightly redeeming this movie due to the fact that it (Spoiler Alert!!!) kills off one of the main characters. For a standard film, that is a relatively uncommon occurrence, but since it seemed as if we were actually supposed to care about these characters, I thought it was an interesting tonal shift from the rest of the film. Unfortunately, at the very ending, as the main character plummets into the mouth of a falling shark, he cuts open the shark from the inside, only to reveal that the recently deceased character was in fact alive. Nothing about this film is redeemable! Although SyFy is known for B-movie horror cheese, this movie falls under my newly found genre of F--movie, "horror" schlock. One of the worst films I have ever seen, Sharknado fails on every level. Grade: F-
