The Black Demon is a film directed by Adrian Grunberg starring Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cedillo and Venus Ariel.
This time we move from California to Mexico (taking the opportunity to show us a desolate place, by the way) to live another version of the same story with a shark… of a different color and with a Mexican accent (we don’t say so ourselves, they insist on the subject ad nauseam).
Enough novelty? You will see. The point of these movies is to see how big and powerful the school of the moment is.
To put it mildly, we’ll keep waiting for Jason Statham and his Meg 2: The Trench.
Movie Review
This time we are moving from California to Mexico (which they harness to show us as a desolate place, by the way) to live another version of the same story with a shark… of another color and with a Mexican accent (we are not the ones who say it, they insist on the subject ad nauseam).
New enough? If you think so… The point of these kind of films is to see how big and powerful the new shark in town is.
To put it mildly, we’ll be wishing for Jason Statham and his Meg 2.
It tries to do something with what it has, but it has little. Few characters, little novelty in the premise (if you feel generous accepting there’s such thing as a premise here) and it’s not a blockbuster. A “video club movie” from the old days that, without having anything wrong, doesn’t aspire to be a classic either.
A certain Steven Spielberg invented this (it was a B-Movie, and the shark didn’t come out much because it broke down constantly although Spielberg wanted it to come out more) and the techniques are repeated time after time without much novelty.
Black Shark is more of the same, but many decades later… and we’re getting tired of the same movie just before summer and going to the beach to enjoy all the summerish stuff. This one isn’t going to come along with us in our collective unconscious during our holidays. It’s no way going to be the movie of our lives and in its pretensions the fate of its doom was written.
It maintains the tension well in the cinematographic, although the interpretations are not credible because, deep down, it is a story that nobody believes anymore and in which its creators clearly don’t trust. A fast-food movie treated as such and aware that whoever sees it expects this and nothing more.
They got it, the beast is big and fearful but, and I don’t know if I’m being frivolous or not, I’ve seen them bigger and mightier.
Our opinion
A shark movie that doesn’t impress too much, that’s fine if you leave it while you do other things but, deep down, it fails to capture our attention with its spectacularity, which is what these movies are asked of.
Storyline
Oil tanker Paul Sturges’ idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.
Dirección: Adrian Grunberg
Adrian Grunberg is an American film director and screenwriter. Grunberg is known for directing and co-writing the film Get the Gringo. Grunberg has also worked as first assistant director on such films as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Edge of Darkness and Apocalypto.
The Cast
Josh Lucas
Julio Cedillo
Fernanda Urrejola
Venus Ariel