Dom Nickson Spoiler Alert! At least the shark doesn't growl like other stupid movies have to use to make the shark seem menacing! It seems like this film, Deep Blue Sea, Jaw 1 and 2 got it right. Bait was another decent film but it needed more character development I thought. This film however has fine buildup but the way they killed the shark was really weak. I was always a big fan of shark films when I was younger and I'd always rent this because it's the only other one besides the 4 others I mentioned that did really well. Lou Diamond Phillips does pretty well I must say. Bottom line the movie was pretty good up until the very end when they kill the shark.

Theo Robertson Channel 5 broadcast this immediately after showing the 2010 version of PIRANHA . This is very lazy transmission but you can see the thematic logic of this . What it does mean is that a film like RED WATER comes off second best compared to a in your face comedy horror spoof because this is a very conventional , flat movie featuring a killer shark RED WATER gets off to a fairly good start . You want to grab an audience's attention? Well what better way to grab every man's attention by having a couple of cuties swimming in a lake wearing very skimpy bikinis . Even better a couple of minutes later the action cuts to a bad guys swimming pool where some really hot women walk around in bikinis . The board on this page has a few comments noticing this somewhat cynical crowd pleasing scene and all state this is in fact the best part of the film . You got hot chicks in bikinis and it's the best part of the film ? Yes it says a lot about the movie you're watching No matter how many hot chicks you can cram in to a movie you'd better have a story to go with it and how many great films have you seen featuring sharks that weren't directed by Steven Spielberg ? You'd also do well to remember RED WATER is one of those made for television movies so goes out of its way not to offend the audience . Example ? Someone gets eaten by a shark and a verbal reaction to this scene of horror is " Damn "

Michael O'Keefe Not very fearsome. Boat Captian John Sanders(Lou Diamond Phillips)is about to lose his boat due to lack of on-time payments to the bank. He is persuaded by his ex-wife(Kristy Swanson)to help her company find natural gas in a Louisiana river. At the same time criminals are looking for a sunken chest full of money. A gruesome discovery is made; a Bull shark is stalking the quiet lazy waters in a search of its own...human blood. It doesn't take long before you realize this is just another low budget shark flick. The action is about as slow as the dialog is dumb. And the shark scenes are noticeably too fake. However my favorite scene is...let's say when the shark gets "drilled".I'm a Phillips fan, but this movie makes BATS(1999) look pretty damn good. Coolio is horrid as bad guy Ice. On the other hand Rob Boltin's character Emery is likable. As for Swanson...she is female. Fears strikes out this time.

Hang_All_Drunkdrivers There were only a few short scenes with the shark and the water was muddy and shark didn't do anything but come str8 ahead like the prop on a string it was. Very weak special effects. Lou diamond philips was pretty good as the hero and i always love kristy swanson. A beautiful and very well built woman.An incredibly stupid scene was when the good guys were tied up and thrown in this room. But their hands were tied at the WRISTS leaving the fingers completely free. Would have been easy to untie the ropes on their comrades. But they never did that and then one of the bad guys came in and kicked the crap out of them. After he left, they took a hacksaw out of a toolbox (which had been lying there all along) and cut the ropes!!!!No suspense and no real scares in this "horror" movie. For kristy swanson fans only.