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While diving for the legendary treasure of the Medicis beneath the city
of Venice, David's (Stephen Baldwin) father has diedd, killed by a shark.
But ... there are no sharks in Venice, right? With the help of police
inspector Sofia Totti (Hilda van der Meulen), David and his fiancée Laura
(Vanessa Johansson) investigate, and while on a dive beneath the city of
Venice, David stumbles upon the treasure of the Medicis ... but then he is
attacked by a shark, and after he only just survives the ordeal, he
decides to leave Venice and return to the USA, treasure or no treasure.
However, there's still mafia boss Clemenza (Giacomo Gonnella), who had
actually employed David's father to find the treasure, who has released
the sharks onto Venice (not sure why), and who now wants David to find the
treasure in his father's stead. David declines, but then Clemenza has
Laura kidnapped, and to guard his own back, he has inspector Sofia on his
very payroll. So David sees himself forced to dive together with
Clemenza's men, whether he likes it or not, but he sees to it that all of
Clemenza's guys are either eaten by sharks or fall prey to the many
deathtraps inside the treasure chamber. He returns to the surface
empty-handed, but Clemenza has lost quite a few of his best men. It all
culminates in a shootout, during which inspector Sofia changes sides and
saves the lives of David and Laura risking her own, and in a case of
poetic justice, Clemenza is of course eaten up by one of his own sharks in
the end. A shark attack on Venice - now that's a cool concept,
because on one side is Venice an incredibly beautiful city easy to
photograph well for even less than talented cameramen, on the other hand
are sharks incredibly ruthless killers, and on the third hand do Venice's
canals endless opportunities for great shark attacks. Shark in Venice
however manages to completely fuck up the great conept: Venice the city is
treated as little more than a touristy backdrop, shark attacks in the
canals play a less than big role in the film's plot, most of the action
takes place underwater instead of in the city, the sharks are mostly
represented by badly done CGI-effects, and for some reason someone decided
to make this film into an action movie rather than a horror flick ... so
there's next to no atmosphere in this one, only very little shock value,
and everything ends in an a dime a dozen shootout. Add to this the very
simplistic script and the unbelievably silly explanation of why there are
sharks in Venice, and you are left with ... well, a pile of junk, but not
of the entertaining kind.
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