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 A truly bizarre  shark caper.

The first shock is that this is a dubbed English language version on Netflix , not sub -titled, stripping out much needed Gallic charm. Furthermore the plot has been anglicised with the cops wearing “Police” badged uniforms not those of the gendarmerie.

The second surprise is that the opening is set nowhere near the seine, but instead in the pacific floating rubbish dump of plastic and nets aka The Great pacific Garbage Patch. This introduces us to our heroine,  Sophie, the fragrant Berenice Bejo,

her soon to be deceased friends, and the shark. The environmental message is clunky but pulls in younger cast members who have to suffer for the cause by being consumed in an underwater cavern.

It is  packed full of  shark movie cliches and the middle drags a little, ( not enough people eaten)  but  the last quarter of the film picks up , leaving me cheering for the shark  as there were so  many stupid people waiting to be eaten to fulfil he body count requirement.

Triathletes are   a strange bunch so having a shark devouring them in an Olympics opener  was fun an would also have resulted in having some record times- with a shark racing towards you , you would swim fast!

Anne Marivin is terrifically deranged as the Mayor who is determined that swimmers are devoured, tres shapely, she should have been made to a  swimsuit herself. It makes no sense and is enjoyable as a result

Dumb and fun.