FountainPen This is rubbish. Don't bother with it. A fail in all respects. However, as with many terrible flicks, I note that there are some very high-rating reviews by IMdB members who have viewed/reviewed only ONE or very few films. Here's one review, for example, giving a 10/10 rating, by someone who has rated ONLY this movie, no others: " The first truly epic film of the decade 11 March 2009 by jryan154 " Nonsense! Is that a kid writing? A cast member? A friend of the producers? Please, IMdB, think up some procedure to stop these idiots from posting such crap. Thank you. I advise everyone to avoid this movie. HERE's another member giving this rotten piece of crud 10/10: " pure genius sj29-17 October 2008 " Is there any hope? #

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain A B-Movie that makes a common mistake. It sidelines the perfectly ridiculous/stupid idea of Sharks in Venice, for a plot involving hidden treasure and the mafia. I didn't come here for no stale performances from humans, I wanted stock footage mixed with obvious CGI. I did get quite a bit of this, but not enough. As someone that appreciates the tacky genre, at least give me what you promise. Especially when the title is that clear. If not, then be more creative, such as "Mysteries of Venice", as this can relate to the treasure and the shark. Baldwin is a perfectly fine actor that takes, even this role, pretty seriously. There are unintentional laughs, bad accents and even epic medieval battles. It's got a lot, but not enough.

doggydog2312 So ummm, OK, I went to see this expecting a low budget trash firm, worth a couple of laughs at its expense, maybe along with it too. And that it delivered.That doesn't change the fact that it's most of the time simply too insultingly dumb to be fun.So there you have Baldwin probably trying to play Till Lindemann playing a constipated yet muscular/trigger happy university professor. You have Bulgarians trying to play Italian and the least convincing Italian turns out to really be Italian. Whoa.Trying to list everything that's, erm, idiotic? about the movie would take all day. Let's just list some (another spoiler alert). Baldwin's character needing assurance if the guy he saw ripped in half survived or not. Mafia guys just multiplying in thin air (mitosis?). Police chasing armed villains running unarmed through the same corridor over and over again (the villains & Baldwin do the same, mind you). Baldwin losing a leg apparently and then growing it back (miraculous recoveries galore!). Sharks growing too big to escape the channels (WTF) yet small enough to fit into spaces for which people think are too small for them to pass. Reusing of scenes and props in general to a painful extent. Etc. etc. etc.The random "shark attack" scenes are crap, but really funny crap, so ludicrously unbelievable that they are actually enjoyable and the best part of the movie.Dunno why I'm giving this a 2. Really don't know. Visually, musically, story-wise, it's abysmal.

merklekranz In the first underwater scene, we get to see obvious plastic plants growing in almost total darkness, and a stock footage shark viciously attacking three divers in a row, one by one, without the other divers even noticing. Next we get to see more shark stock footage, only this time the sharks are surrounded by schools of colorful fish that only swim in tropical waters, 1000 miles from Venice. After our hero, Stephen Baldwin is nearly torn in half by a Great White, he manages to walk out of the hospital the next day without a scratch. Even more hilarious than the stock footage sharks are the worse C.G.I. sharks, as one mafia diver appears to actually stick his head into a sharks mouth instead of the other way around. But wait there's more. Stephen Baldwin shouting to a policeman "He's got a gun", as he's being sprayed with bullets by a mafia goon. Steathy mafia bad guys attacking a sleeping Baldwin in the middle of the night, yet when he escapes his hotel, people are strolling and shopping as if it were 12 noon. The mafia plan for protecting the treasure is brilliant, putting baby sharks into the canals and when they grow too big they cannot escape. The only flaw seems to be that they have nothing to eat, as no fish or baby seals are living in the polluted canals. The finale is beyond belief, sort of a montage of an underwater fight that lasts for minutes on end with neither combatant surfacing for air, stock shark footage, a girlfriend standing in the middle of an explosive gun battle without taking cover, more stock shark footage, a hovering police helicopter that has nothing to do with the story, and unbelievably the treasure stays where it is, and the shark problem is never dealt with. Bad movie festivals should ban "Sharks in Venice", as this is unfair competition for even Ed Wood's masterpieces. The ridiculous story, bad acting, terrible effects, and most importantly, all this is taken seriously, insures "Sharks in Venice" to be voted the worst of the worst, unless of course there is to be a sequel? We can only dream of such a wonder. - MERK