Theo Robertson A deep sea drilling project has started which means only one thing - bad things are about to happen and the only thing that can stop it are impossibly young and good looking scientists . Just in case you're hard of thinking the lines between the good guys and bad guys aren't blurred in anyway and an early scene sees young good looking scientists get involved in an argument with riggers and greedy company boss that mankind is ruining the planet . The greedy company boss of course has an English accent just like every villain has since cinema started using sound in films so you can guess where all this might be headingActually you might wonder where it's heading because for the first third absolutely nothing happens and the audience might be bored and I know I was and in order to vainly fight against this boredom the screenplay inserts the occasional character development piece such as " pretty blond scientist who doesn't look old to be an undergraduate having a panic attack because she suffers from claustrophobia " Hmmm . Let me see now someone who suffers from claustrophobia volunteers to work in an underwater sea base ? I look forward to seeing an astronaut who is scared of heights As you can guess the film then turns in to a science fiction film set under the sea . There was a glut of similar films released all at the same time in the late 1980s and none of them did very well at the box office , probably down to a potential audience seeing through them as being derivative ALIEN inspired movies that had merely changed the setting of outer space in to the inner Earth of a deep ocean and this movie resembles those . That said it is very slightly better than much of the stuff I've caught on the SyFy channel and better production values would have helped the limp script even though it wouldn't have been a hit at the box office

solair130 Okay if you look at this film for a fine polished movie then you are going to be sadly mistaken. This movie is 'b' movie, and taken in that scale, not a bad one to boot. Yes at time the acting can be a tad annoying and wooden. And the special effects can rather lame. But there is a story line there, and I think is this is redone as a modern film with a good amount of money for the special effects and a tidy up of the script, you would have a cracking little movie. Because at the moment the film is a diamond in the rough, I would advise you watch it, just to see what I mean.You get a feel for some of the people within the movie itself, more so then some of the newer films.All in all I would give it 6 out of 10, as a middle of the road type of film, take your brain out of gear sit back and watch.....EDIT 11/08/2013Watching the film again the other day, I thought about the book MEG with is a cracking title by Steve Alten. This film if it were given a remake with a good budget and a rewrite, keeping some of the story line, but expanding it passed the events on the oil rig, I think you could have a fair movie. The storyline on this as I said before is a tad flimsy, and the oh so special effects, but you start to get a feel for some of the characters, which should be expanded.If you did all of this, then you should have a movie to watch and play at the movies. Will it happen,, I don't think so, which is a shame

Saturnfly Hmm, so many words describe this film, but only one will sum it up.crap.First off you see a man going diving, I wasn't paying much attention at that point so I wasn't completely aware of what he was doing, anyway man dies as you would expect, 6 months later man finds tooth, searches tooth on internet and decides that over the 5 or 6 species of sharks that this tooth is not there and therefor is a complete mystery and the shark obviously ends up a dinosaur.Anyway, this movie felt like a incomplete replica of the jaw movie's. y'know with your basic skinny dippers, shark eats through boat and swallows men, and also eventually gets blown up.However, what they didn't include in this movie (which in my opinion the first war of the worlds used better technology and special effects) was good actors, a good script, emotion, half the time it looked like the lady was smiling when she was obviously supposed to be doing the opposite.There was plenty of boob showing which probably got this film up to two (down from -0).But I can honestly say I had never laughed so hard at people being chewed up by this incredibly big shark which looked as though it was used from a completely different film.if I could I would give it a zero, that's what it needs, and by golly I hope the actors NEVER act again.

Vomitron_G It's easy to pick on MEGALODON and call it a bad movie. It's not original, it lacks a bit suspense every now and then, the acting is just average and you can tell that the budget was low, to name only a few things. But if you manage to look beyond its mediocrity, you can see that the film-makers really tried to make it as decent as possible. And you can only appreciate that. Now , if it wasn't for CGI-technology, this movie simply would not have been made. Only the actors and a few sets were real, the rest all CGI. It looks real good most of the time(the helicopter in the beginning and the sailboat at the end,...) but sometimes it fails desperately (that same helicopter crashing on the platform).You already know that this movie is about a prehistoric mega-shark rising from the depths and terrorizing the crew of an oil-rig. And with it's title being MEGALODON, I thought the mega-shark was considerably lame. There's only one fairly decent attack-scene when he bursts through the ice. Decent in terms of that he finally does something. The rest of its screen time you see him swimming around bumping into things. Well at least they didn't make him roar or something. And the explosion at the end was ridiculous: They just disappeared!? But still, this movie never becomes really boring, 'cause the CGI frequently provides nice images to look at, with the 'cave-exploring'-sequence being a good example (nice glowing flubbery creatures). There are a few other shots worth mentioning. They're pretty pointless, but stylish. It was when they showed that smaller dinosaur-fish with the sharp teeth. The creature-designer actually made a real good-looking sculpture (no CGI) for this one.I admit, to some MEGALODON may not live up to its humble 4-star-rating, but I think you should at least appreciate the effort the film-makers made for trying to make it work. And even if it can't compete with most of the underwater-creature-flicks, it still is way better than that Casper Van Dien SHARK ATTACK-tripe.