2017/12/03

Movie Review: Empire of the Sharks


Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have come across todays entry.  Today, 12/02/17, I am checking out the Syfy/Asylum flick Empire of the Sharks.  It currently has a rating of 2.9 with 271 people rating it.  It stars John Savage, Jack Amstrong and Thandi Sebe.  "On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller."  An army of sharks?  How can this be bad!


  • My god, Big Ben is underwater...should I care?
  • Slow boat or slowest boat?
  • You can own the ocean?  
  • Is it that hard to make salt water drinkable?
  • Is Mr. Scream drunk...or it is Mason Scrim
  • Where is Freddy Kruger to make a power glove joke?
  • Wait...he'll go deeper...than the sharks?
  • Yes hide the time keeping device next to your boobs...they kidnappers will NEVER look there
  • Probably can't save the girl if EVERYONE knows you are there
  • The most realistic looking sharks EVER!
  • Wait...they took the girls...to be regular slaves?  What kind of warlord is this?  Healthy male workers seem better for that kind of job....is that sexist of me?
  • Yep because pearls would still be valuable in a world without clean water.....
  • So the sunstone means she can call sharks....okay
  • He is the least intimidating hero ever
  • Serious cheddar?  Who talks like that?
  • There is the Asylum over-the-top acting!  LOVE IT!
  • The captain chick is not a good actress...but then again compared to most of the people here she isn't bad
  • This kid has no idea what he is doing?  Worst plan ever, why not just take the supplies in himself?
  • ARMY OF SHARKS!
  • Man the CGI is awesome
  • Some day I want to own the ocean like this warlord.  I believe that is called life goals
  • Oh shit....the power glove failed!
  • How does the power glove work I would like to know
  • This is actually a really boring Asylum flick sadly
  • Scrim is so over the top it is fun
  • Nice they threw in a hammerhead
  • I think there is a T-Rex around the way the water is rippling
  • That was the dumbest way to jump in the water I've ever seen
  • Yeah teaching her how to control the sharks wasn't the best idea there warlord man
  • He even makes his own sound effects...awesome!
  • The sharks sure can breach in the future
  • Those gloves won't still work without hands sunshine
  • Is she a mermaid?  
  • Wait...are they a frat now?  Is she going to start spanking people with that paddle?
  • They had a shark caller to trainer her...so they have a shark caller?  I'm confused by this
  • And why do all that bullshit if she can just do it?  
Well that was a disappointing flick even by Asylum standards to be honest.  It wasn't campy enough to be enjoyable and not bad enough to be laughable...it was just there and fell flat.

Overall I think the 2.9 is a little high and I give it a 2/10.  Usually I try to find something good to say about a film but this just did not have anything unfortunately. Usually Asylum flicks are campy B movie fun but this was not.  I read that this came out during Sharknado week so I feel like they just threw a script together and put it out there without really working on it.  

I cannot say to check this flick out.  Save your bad movie viewing time for others.  

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