Shark in Venice (2008)

Shark in Venice: Directed by Danny Lerner. With Stephen Baldwin, Vanessa Johansson, Hilda van der Meulen, Giacomo Gonnella. Traveling to Venice to investigate the mysterious death of his father, David (Stephen Baldwin), a famous archaeologist and diver, unearths a killer secret that lies beneath the Venetian waters.

“There are so many factual errors, glaring goofs, moments of technical ineptitude and scenes of sheer idiocy in Shark in Venice that Iu0026#39;m not entirely convinced that this film is a genuinely bad piece of film-making, but rather a deliberate attempt at crapdom carefully crafted to appeal to cult movie fans. It matters not though, u0026#39;cos either way it sucks.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStephen Baldwin, he of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and Celebrity Big Brother fame, stars as David Franks, a lecturer in marine biology who unwittingly becomes involved in a Mafia scheme to locate the lost treasure of the Medicis, which supposedly lies hidden somewhere in the waterways of Venice. Unfortunately for Franks, the cityu0026#39;s famous canals are now teeming with ravenous Great White sharks, having been filled with the toothy u0026#39;watch dogsu0026#39; by crazy Mafia boss Clemenza (Giacomo Gonnella), who clearly wasnu0026#39;t having one of his better days when he came up with that idea.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThose going into this film will probably have a pretty good notion of what to expect given the ultra-naff title and the fact that itu0026#39;s only star is one of the lesser Baldwins (who displays less emotion than the filmu0026#39;s sharks), but even then they may find themselves surprised by some of the absolute tosh thrown onto the screen by writer/director Danny Lerner. Iu0026#39;m not even going to try and catalogue all of the daft bits—it would take me far too long to compile a comprehensive list—suffice to say that itu0026#39;s bloody hard to talk underwater with a regulator stuffed in your gob, and a severed leg wonu0026#39;t ever grow back, even if you are a Baldwin!”