For one, I would like to explain how I like animal life, etc and I care for sharks and so forth.For two, I disagree with this film TOTALLY!So basically this film is directed by Rob Stewart... a middle aged man fighting a decent cause.. with a very simple minded, idiotic reality.The reason why I disagree with this film completely is because 85% of this film was supposed to be about sharks and life in the water and about few industries that are killing off all the sharks yet there are so many in our waters still? How can he know exactly how many sharks we have on our Earth if we haven't even discovered around 75% of our oceans?So anyways, Rob Stewart goes on with his little posse of vigilantes to fight the government because you know.. the government definitely is the problem here (sarcastic) and by little posse, I mean LITTLE POSSE of innocent school children who are brain-fed liberal logic to "start a riot yo" on the government.Instead of Rob Stewart doing something to help the environment, he just goes on with his ridiculous attitude in Mexico to start attacking government officials.. physically.With 85% of the film being riots towards the government, this was an absolutely waste of time. I was tricked by my Biology teacher (Probably not her fault, I am sorry) That it was supposed to be about Sharks and other water-life fish. Not government rioting.I find it pretty crazy how liberals want to keep the world a "greener" place yet they keep spending "green" to force big windmills beside the shore (Probably around 500 mills) which takes up a huge amount of our countries budget. Did I mention that those windmills kill animals too? Don't forget about how many birds die per year because of it!I could go on and on about this horrible film, but I would rather watch some more Sons of Anarchy and get some food to eat. Maybe I'll order Chinese tonight.. oh right.. they feed us with amazing food from shrimps, squid, etc. Remember, don't trust a Liberal!

I rented Sharkwater expecting an environmentally conscious documentary with the emphasis largely on the sharks and their plight. I expected calm reasoning and impassioned calls for defending an endangered species. Instead, I got an ideological screed which actually hurt the reputation of the environmental movement.The film traces the activities of Rob Stewart and his activism on behalf of endangered sharks. The film has some beautiful shark photography, and makes a good argument that we should not see sharks as a danger, but as a vital part of the ecosystem.However, the movie falters when it moves to examine the activities of Stewart and Paul Watson, with whom he has teamed up to defend the sharks. The first troubling sign is when we see the boat they are using for its activities. It has markings on it to list the whaling and fishing boats it has sunk. Stewart depicts Watson and his cohorts in the Sea Shepherd Society as men of action. In fact, they seem disturbingly close to terrorists.This impression is confirmed when the boat attacks a fishing boat that is engaged in illegal sharking. Although Watson and his crew claim to have gotten the go ahead from the Costa Rican government, their actions border on outright terrorism, ramming the much smaller fishing vessel. Their actions at this point create a serious risk of injury and death for the fishing crew, and eliminate all sympathy for Stewart and his cohorts.The film asserts that the fishing crew is funded by the Asian mafia, and that subsequent legal prosecution of Watson and his crew is a result of legal corruption. This ignores the fact that they were ramming a smaller ship. Even if they did so to enforce the law, this simply makes them vigilantes.Furthermore, Stewart's attitude towards sharks at times reminds one of Timothy Treadwell. Even if they are not man-eating monstrosities, they are wild animals that need to be treated with respect. At the beginning of the film, we see Stewart grabbing and basically hugging a shark, holding it in place for over a minute. He is lucky the shark did not turn and bite him in self defense.I turned this film off roughly halfway through in disgust. It may have gotten better, but I highly doubt it.

I have heard nothing but great praises about this movie. Since I also love documentaries and animals, I set out to see it with great enthusiasm. The movie started off quite well, so I figured I was in for a treat. There were beautiful underwater shots, and it seemed like a legitimate documentary, although the narrator's lack of commentary skills, and low audio quality were foreshadowing bad things to come. I have seen enough documentaries to know to take every one of them with a grain of salt. The problem with documentaries is that (while they should be presenting facts objectively) they are all created to serve one purpose in mind: to convince the viewers of the author's ideas/ideals/point of view. In the case of Sharkwater the ideas and ideals of the author were at the level of an elementary school student. His 'scientific' reasoning makes perfect sense if you are either 6 years old, or are completely brain-dead. Don't get me wrong, I am all for saving this planet, and I agree, eradicating animal species one after another is unacceptable. However, a marine biology themed movie made by a complete amateur without any scientific training is probably going to do more damage to the cause than good. Introduce a complete hack of a Greenpeace activist as a 'subject matter expert', and some shameless self-promotion tactics in a pathetic attempt to be recognized as a hero, and you have a complete disaster. These guys filmed themselves sinking fishing vessels in international waters, armed with the argument that out there no one has authority over them, claiming themselves to be heroes for enforcing local laws. Get it? They were enforcing local laws outside of the country's borders. Needless to say, they were also outraged for being arrested by authorities for attempted murder. I guess, enforcing local laws in international waters has made them forget about the existence of international laws... no matter where you are, attacking other people, and trying to sink their boats (even if they are engaged in illegal poaching) is attempted murder. There is also a completely unnecessary section about the author being attacked by flesh-eating disease. Apparently the doctors had to amputate his leg. Then he made some phone calls to his relatives, assuring them that he had things under control, and that everything was going to be fine. All this with astounding confidence from a person who's about to have his leg amputated. Then guess what happened? He was tougher than the flesh-eating disease! He defied all odds against him, saving his own leg, ripping out the IV tube from his arm, and and then immediately rushing off to the very country that had an arrest warrant against him for attempted murder, just because his cause for saving the sharks was more important than his health, leg or life in prison... For these reasons I found this movie extremely pathetic. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people that loved this movie... however, now that I think about it, they all had the IQ of a tadpole...

Now this was a movie that really made me think about our world and how cruel we humans can really be. Some parts (like the part with the people beating and almost torturing the turtle) in this movie really gets deep in your emotions (only if your an animal lover) and I did cry in this movie with some of the parts shown in this movie. It really did change me and the way I look upon humans. I was literally disgusted by some people on this earth and how they treat animals. If you are a true animal lover and are totally against animal cruelty, this is the movie to watch. It will make you cry if you truly care and change the way you think about not only sharks, but the whole world. I do recommend this movie to anyone but those who can't stand watching animals being beated and tortured or those who just who hate blood. We humans need to watch movies like this one to make a change in the world today. So let's stand together and make a difference!!!