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"It waited all this time and came for him."
I'm not about to go on some apology tour for Jaws: the Revenge (1987). It was so far removed in quality from Spielberg's classic, it doesn't prove as a faint memory of what once was as much as a reminder that it couldn't get much worse. Inexplicable is a term that seems fitting for the plotting of this film. I pity Lorraine Gary who gets to be the star of a film in the Jaws franchise finally and it's this disaster. Caine has plenty of paycheck films in his career but he could continue to redeem himself, but this was Gary's moment to get a real substantial part in her own Jaws movie. Alas, this is what she was stuck with, bless her heart.
So the Great White Human Hunter Shark is stalking Brodys in revenge of their killing other sharks relative to it. Yes, that is the plot. The cast has good names in this turkey. The aforementioned Caine and Gary, Lance Guest (The Last Starfighter), Karen Young (9 1\2 Weeks), and Mario Van Peebles (Full Eclipse): this isn't without talent. But making anything remotely valuable out of this plot was just not reasonable.
Not sure I'd want my face on the poster of this one. Well, Caine was on the poster of The Swarm...
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