Invited to a private island, pharmaceutical representatives inspecting a scientists' claims of newfound breakthroughs in genetic research find the trip is a ploy to feed them to a genetically-modified human/shark hybrid and must try to get away alive.This here was quite a decent enough creature feature overall. What tends to really help this one is the fact that the creature here allows this one to ready-made way to work out a natural excuse for the viciousness of the attacks throughout here which is quite fun here. The ability of mixing a shark into a human form is a rather novel idea here and manages to come off nicely with all the scientific jargon established throughout here that makes the revelation of the creature deformity all that much better here as it does come with the added bonus of featuring greater brutality here which enhances the action considerably. From the opening attack on the divers that's incredibly vicious, the group's escape from their holding cell with the pouring water coming in with the creature in with them and the suspenseful stalking in the jungle where they have to deal with the guards and the traps present but also the creature running loose with them gives this a rather strong semblance of action filled with great violent creature action along the way, while the big finale is the film's highlight for its grandiose action inside the lab with the specimens and the creature getting involved as well to a great finish. Even better is the fact that there's other great action scenes here that involve the guards' attempts to contain them, from the boat ambush and eventual gunfight, the brawling around the lab and the helicopter attack in the jungle where they try taking them out with the gun that makes for an overall enjoyable and impressive series of attacks that bumps up the action even more. Along with the great design for the creature that looks quite imposing when it's visibly on-screen and moving around, these here are the film's great points overall. Among the few flaws featured here is the fact that the creature basically disappears in the middle of the movie and almost becomes a complete afterthought as the main part of the film at that point turns into an admittedly fun action movie that pushes the creature out of the film and is hardly ever seen during that point. It's his own movie, yet he's almost reduced to a cameo appearance, based on screen time. As if that also wasn't bad enough, he's hardly ever seen no matter where in the film, as there's only a couple of times that there's a clear shot of the monster, making it hard to tell what it looks like, which is a clear shame as it has a great design and cool look to it. As well, there's the rapid fire editing used every single time it appeared. The camera jerks and tears around from side to side quickly so that you can't see what is going on and can only assume someone has been killed when the water turns red, and as it's used for every single attack, and it lead to a lot of headaches trying to figure it out that only ends up sucking a lot of the fun out of watching the monster attacking people. While the storyline here is a little weak despite the nice work involved, otherwise it's not all that bad.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, themes of bestiality and Brief Nudity.

Actually SharkMan was worse than bad, I personally found it awful. Was there a redeeming quality? Yes, and only one. Jeffrey Combs who gives his all to a character who is not only clichéd but never really believable. The rest of the cast don't put anywhere near as much effort, you actually do question what William Forsythe was doing here in the first place. But the acting is not the only bad asset. There is also the hilariously terrible special effects, very rubber-like and silly-looking. Instead of feeling any sense of danger, I was silently chuckling to myself at how ridiculous the effects looked. The camera work and editing was also too much, rapid and always moving, sometimes it is very difficult to see or work out what's going on. The gore was nothing out of the ordinary, you do get the sense that you have seen it before and in much more of an inspired way. The dialogue is cheesy, the story predictable and devoid of suspense(which would have made the gore work a little more I think) and the characters stereotypical and annoying, the Russian scientist character never rang true to me. Overall, apart from Combs SharkMan was a mess. 1/10 Bethany Cox

This is a sad movie about this woman who thought her ex who she loved so much was probably dead, but really his scientist dad had just put a spell on him to turn him into this really cute shark-guy. Kind of like in Beauty and the Beast. It could probably use a ballroom dance scene and maybe some singing candlesticks, but there are some pretty gross plants instead. They make this one girl really itchy, so she lets herself get eaten by the shark-guy instead of scratching through the whole movie. The scientist guy is a good dad who tries to reunite his fishy shark son with the woman he was engaged to, he even arranges for them to have private time for s-e-x, but the woman in this is a really shallow snob and thinks the shark-guy is an ugly, icky monster and wants nothing to do with him. She gave up on love! Just because he was a shark! I thought it was pretty sad how all she had to do was kiss him and he'd turn back to normal and they'd live happily ever after, but it's not that kind of movie.

I am a lover of B movies, give me a genetically mutated bat and I am in heaven. These movies are good for making you stop thinking of everything else going on in your world. Even a stupid B movie will usually make me laugh and I will still consider it a good thing. Then there was Hammerhead, which was so awful I had to register with IMDb so I could warn others. First there was the science of creating the shark-man, which the movie barely touched on. In order to keep the viewers interested they just made sure there was blood every few minutes. During one attack scene the camera moved off of the attack but you saw what was apparently a bucket of blood being thrown by a stagehand to let you know that the attack was bloody and the person was probably dead (what fabulous special effects). Back to the science, I thought it was very interesting that the female test subjects were held naked and the testing equipment required that they be monitored through their breast tissue. Anyway this movie had poor plot development, terrible story, and I'm sorry to say pretty bad acting. Not even William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo or Jeffrey Combs could save this stinker.