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Nov 3, 2009 · Top 10 Movie Maneaters. Jennifer's Body inspires a list of our favourite flesh-eating females. By Chester Bateman. Updated: Jun 13, 2012 2:20 pm. Posted: Nov 3, 2009 6:28 am. When Hall...
What better place to drown your sorrows than an idyllic island paradise? That was the idea when Jesse’s friends convinced her to not let a broken engagement ...
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Aug 26, 2022 · Jesse and her friends' idyllic island vacation turns into a gruesome nightmare when they become the target for an unrelenting great white shark. Desperate to survive, she teams up with a local sea...
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Aug 22, 2022 2:00 pm
Maneater debuts in limited theaters and On-Demand and digital on Aug. 26.
Justin Lee’s Maneater continues 2022’s cursed surge of forgettable to horrendous shark thrillers like The Requin, Shark Bait, and The Reef: Stalked. It’s the epitome of everything wrong with the subgenre at its worst, from inexcusably poor digital predators to throwaway plot development slathered in sunscreen. The only thing Maneater remotely salvages is an absurdly hilarious shark hunter role for country music superstar Trace Adkins, whose ammo-loaded hero is a B-movie standout — for all the wrong reasons. Entertainment evaporates as Lee mishandles his eyesore of an alpha Great White that would make Bruce from Jaws demand a refund, which once again proves how filmmakers continue to misunderstand what makes a successful fin flick.
In short, low-budget independent studio The Asylum no longer has the boneheaded shark sector cornered with movies like Maneater swimming onto screens, he types with furious frustration and critical condemnation.
Maneater follows Nicky Whelan’s heartbroken Jessie as she embarks on a Hawaiian getaway with jubilantly boozy buddies (Shane West plays chatterbox Will, most notably). While Lee takes his time getting Jessie on Captain Wally’s (Ed Morrone) seafaring vessel before they dock at a secluded nearby island, we watch as fisherman Harlan’s (Adkins) daughter is mauled by a massive Great White. Jessie’s besties combat her relationship problems with Maui Brewing Company beverages and boating shenanigans, while Lee lets their eventual foe munch through swimmers in odd one-off death sequences that feel inorganically inserted to get blood in the water. Lee struggles immensely with pacing, as shark attacks are often blink-and-miss while second-rate performances bog-droll exposition dumps.
Maneater torpedoes an underwater thriller formula that many think to be foolproof, only furthering the reality that shark cinema isn’t indebted to its most basic ingredients. Hungry sharks, dead people — but what about sharks with visual appeal, deaths that mean something, and a story worth telling? Justin Lee doesn’t attempt a fool’s errand, but e...
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May 19, 2019 · Maneater is the twelfth feature film from writer/director Justin Lee ( The Most Dangerous Game, Apache Junction) since he came on the scene in 2018 with Big Legend. And it comes at an opportune time, since it’s been a couple of months since we’ve reviewed an old-fashioned shark attack film.
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Aug 6, 2022 · Maneater: Directed by Justin Lee. With Trace Adkins, Nicky Whelan, Shane West, Porscha Coleman. After an accident during their vacations on a paradisiac island, a group of friends is stalked by a large shark.
