The Finnish DVD cover says the title for this is The Last Jaws, but the opening credits say it's The Last Shark. Be it as it may, the original Italian title is L'ultimo squalo. I'm sure this film has other names as well. It was banned in the US for being such a blatant rip-off of Spielberg's Jaws.
This epic falls not very neatly somewhere between a schlock horror thriller and a solid turkey. It's not as camp as it should be, nor as shocking as it should be, so it's pretty mediocre. Some very funny moments throughout, as the YouTube link shows (it's with Spanish dubbing). More Overlooked (is this "overlooked"?) Movies at Todd Mason's blog here.
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I think Randy Johnson was the first to establish a regular pattern of Films Which Deserve to be Overlooked...I try to deal with only those that have some very good and/or important aspect to them, at very least, though there's one example among my choices so far where the only aspect that was notable was a good performance by Judy Greer, and that the rest of the film was in every way a Not Quite...
A lot of Italian films are overlooked as cheesey, campy or blatantly ripping off other films and film idea. That doesn't make them any less enjoyable. Fun, even!
You're right, Howard, but some of them are even good!
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