Reviews

Just returned from an IMAX 3D showing of this movie and I must say it is the first time for a very long time I have left a movie theatre extremely satisfied, the movie was as near to perfection for a sci-fi/superhero/action movie you could get, the only thing that let it own very slightly was the score but only because I have always been a fan of the original movie soundtrack, thinking about it now it would not have suited the movie. Its not a movie about Superman flying about saving cats, saving kids, stopping robbers and trying to stop a man with his fat mate launching a couple of rockets, its much bigger than that, much more epic, Superman is saving mankind ! It is none stop action from start to finish and it is nothing like the original, Christopher Reeve has always been the Superman, but Henry Cavill has stepped into the role and the boots fit perfectly, he makes Brandon Routh seem a little bit of a wuss. Get to the cinema to watch this movie, it definitely deserves the backing, it deserves to make lots of money and deserves an amazing sequel and I can't wait !!!! 10/10

My first thought after watching this film was what a wuss Charlie O'Connell's character was, he gets a little cut on his leg and he is then rolling around on the floor like he has broke his leg, writhing in agony while his students carry him ! What a pussy ! This film was entertaining purely for its extreme stupidness, OK I know with a name like "2 Headed shark attack" it is never going to be taken seriously but this one did take the biscuit ! 1) They race the speed boats back to the main boat they are on for approx. 5 minutes, the main boat was only anchored about 300 metres off shore so it should have taken about 30 seconds max. 2) While they were racing the boats, sometimes the sea was dark and really rough, others it was crystal clear and as calm as a pond. 3) Who was the guy riding the bike along the path in the background when the group were investigating the island "Atol", it was obviously a holiday resort due to the paths and little wooden bridges everywhere and the director could not be bothered to re-shoot the scene after the cyclist rode by (not that re-shooting would have taken that much effort !) or they did just not notice him ? 4) When the skinny dippers got eaten there was no sign of the shark above the water, which was strange as the water was only waist deep and this appeared to be some monster shark, occasionally appearing to be 50ft in length, sometimes 20, sometimes less ! 5) The shark had the amazing ability of being able to dive tens of metres underwater when the water was only a few metres deep, it even did this on occasion while it was actually eating someone at the surface, it would be eating, it would dive down to the bottom, then be eating again all in a millisecond ?!?!??! 6) While they are trying to repair the boat, Carmen Electra feels the need to have a sunbathe on top deck, instead of looking out for her mate who is pretending to weld under the water, so her mate then gets eaten and nobody notices for half the film ! 7) When the shark gets bolder and eats the electric box, why do the 2 Spanish guys jump into the water to get eaten, its clear they jumped and did not fall as you see their knees bend. 8)Whats with the tidal wave and where does that come from and why when its about to happen do Charlie and Carmen start kissing as though they have had sparkling chemistry throughout the movie ? 9) Before the moment about, why do Charlie and Carmen separate from the kids ? OK I know the path cracked slightly but there was plenty of room to simply walk past it and follow the kids to safety. 10) With 3 people remaining and when a mass of not seen before rocks appear behind them, do the kids feel the need to talk about how they can out swim the shark, why not simply walk backwards in the knee deep water and climb onto the rocks to safety. 11) The Atol was supposedly built on coral, what the shark keeps biting away to help it collapse, but the beaches all sloped gradually into the sea, where did the shark go to do this ? 12) You know there is a giant 2 headed shark in the sea as you have just watched it destroy a boat and eat some kids, why get in a motorised dinghy and go back to the island, personally I would stay put. Anyway I am going on a bit now, there are plenty more interesting and fun plot holes and errors, which only adds to the enjoyment of this film, I do feel it did drag on for a bit i.e. the boat race could have been compressed to 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes etc., but its worth watching to just witness my list of errors and add to it. Oh yes just 1 more, there was no shock and surprise of the fact the shark had 2 heads, just the fear of it having 6000 teeth ! lol

I wondered by this film took so long to find a release date, I now know, Del Toro must have realised while trying his best to edit the movie what a disaster he had made and was too ashamed to let it go, until finally he thought "hang on, i need to get some money back at least", then let it go. The movie is not frightening at all, its not suspenseful, all the acting apart from the little girl is wooden, I find it hard to say anything good about it ! Some tips if you buy a house with a stove in your cellar that your daughter has a funny attraction to; 1) If your handy man walks out of the cellar with a pair of scissors in his shoulder and a screwdriver in his eye, don't just assume he had an accident 2)If your daughter keeps insisting she is hearing voices, just have a look into it, it won't take 2 minutes 3)If your daughter tries to show you a photo of one of the gremlins she has been talking about but you did not believe her, just take a quick look 4) If some little gremlins do happen to attack you or run at you, KICK THEM AWAY, they are tiny and are easily crushable as we find out so have no strength, why be afraid of them really ? 5) If you see your wife get pulled into a stove by some small gremlins, show no emotion about it, just have a quick look down the hole in the stove, the move out with your daughter !

Personally if I knew i had small creatures in a stove in my cellar, I would call in someone to get rid of them, I would not just leave them there, I would try and flood them out, burn them out or even gas them, who in their right mind would just leave them !

Thats about me done, i hated this movie, thought it was a waste of a remake, the wife does not feel as harshly about it as me, she thought it was good, but she does not like scary movies, so that should tell you everything !

I don't know if its Aaron Eckhart or the theme of the movies he is in, but like "The Core" the other "chance of the world ending as we know it" movie he was in, it does not seem to contain the feeling of "the end" if you get what I mean, while watching the movie you don't feel as though people are reacting like they actually would if the world was at threat. Like with The Core, its like they thought hey "if we drill to the centre of the earth and kick start it, everything will be fine", this is like, "Hey look at those meteors slowing down as they hit the earth, hang on a minute is that......, ah no its just aliens come to destroy the human race, nobody worry we will send in the marines and clear em out in no time". Don't get me wrong, if the day comes and we actually get attacked by an alien race, we don't know how we would react, it may seem that surreal we do react like they did in this movie and I could be totally wrong, but I sense there would be more shock from people as to what was going on around them than what the characters in the movie convey, to me the aliens may as well have been some Iraqi terrorists floating about the rooftops, it would not have made any difference to the film. What would have made a better film would have been Battle LA and Skyline combined, i.e. the surprise element of the attack, the Dyson vacuum style hover alien crafts with the battles from the marines on the streets from Battle LA, with the human race getting wiped out in the end, just to give you the feeling of hopelessness, we need a film like that for once

Fair enough, the storyline and acting in this film are substandard, but after watching it I am positive it was not made for us to watch and walk away and to think Danny Glover made a great president !, John Cusack is a great action hero ! Both in my opinion were terrible but as others have mentioned, if you switch your brain off and watch the action, you will be blown away ! Yes it is far fetched, there is not a chance anyone would survive, I am sure when Mr Cusack fell into the crack in the Earth above the lava(before pulling himself back out to catch a plane once again), he would have melted ! The car would never have made it out of the first street in LA with all the devastation around it, they would all have died in the real world ! END OF MOVIE, is that what you would have all wanted, a disaster movie over in 25 minutes ?!? lol I do agree some scenes were not needed, Danny Glover being the patriotic President, not wanting to abandon a sinking ship etc. etc., that could have been cut from the movie, who would have given a toss, everyone was gonna be killed, who would have remembered how brave he was ? The president would have been the first on the plane !

My main gripe with this film was at the end, why were they so worried about the Ark they were in crashing into Everest, it had just about been bashed into every other mountain in the area with no concern or damage caused, so what made Everest so scary, "We need to get the engines going, otherwise we are going to hit Everest in 1500 metres!", my calculations were it took about 10 minutes from then before they started to hit so they were travelling at 5.62 miles per hour, hardly back breaking speed to cause concern, after all they must have used some sort of alien material to build the crafts after the hammering it took on the other mountains. Also the shock on their faces when they see Air Force one approaching the bridge of the ship, why would they be so worried, surely the glass had been built to withstand impacts like that, what did they expect, debris free tsunami's ?!?!?!?

Other than the other stupid near misses and the pointless love story, i.e. he kind of wants his ex wife and family back, but she is madly in love with new partner, kids think the new partner is great and love him like their own dad ........... "Anyone seen Gordy, my new partner ??" "He died love, crushed and mangled in a giant cog, very very painful though fast death, thats why the doors did not shut, you nearly drowned and we nearly crashed into Everest", "oh OK", She then throws herself into the arms of her ex who has saved the day by releasing the giant cog ! (not exactly what is said but its what should have been said.

All is all, I am contradicting my summary and am also being overly critical, its going to win as many Oscars as my writing wins booker prizes, but it is a good family action movie. Kids won't read too much into the acting and storyline, they will watch an enjoyable fun film and watch in awe. Get a extra large popcorn and enjoy, its worth watching on the big screen I would say, you won't get the same effects on a TV, so there would be no point in watching it at all !

To be honest I really enjoyed this film, thought it was a good addition to the horror genre and much better than some of the garbage that comes out these days. I thought the acting, effects and story were fine, my only problem with this film and maybe I am been a bit picky is: Day 1 Vampires appear and slaughter most of the town, a group of survivors head into an attic of an abandoned house; a couple of deaths later; Day 3 'Flashes up' there is a snow storm so they head to a weapons store and end up camping out there as the snow storm ends; Day 7 'Flashes up' (a few more deaths) the remaining survivors head to the police station and camp down; Day 27 'FLASHES UP', I was thinking WHAT ? they have camped out for 27 days in the police station eating what ?, why have the vampires not been around looking for these people, why would the vampires have hung around if there was no one left to eat, the survivors see a flashing torch light in a neighbouring house window and decide to investigate, why would you bother ?? Only 3 days to go till sunlight comes back and you take a pointless risk, anyway a few more deaths and in the end with only about 10 minutes till sunrise and Josh Hartnett decides to turn himself into a vampire to save his missus, who clearly was going to be OK anyway as she stood by the truck she was hiding under all the time he was fighting the head vampire and the fire never reached her anyway ! Like I say it was a good film but it would have been more believable had it only been 3 days of night, there was no real reason for it to have been called 30 days of night as Barrow in Alaska actually has around 67 days of night.