Malibu Shark Attack Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		2.0
Video		1.5
Audio		1.5
Extras		0.0
Overall		1.0

Malibu Shark Attack Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman June 17, 2019

'Malibu Shark Attack' is currently only available as part of a two-disc, eight-film 'Meg-A-Shark' collection from Echo Bridge. The set also includes 'Toxic Shark,' 'Shark in Venice,' 'Hammerhead,' 'Shark Attack,' 'Shark Attack 2,' 'Shark Attack 3: Megalodon,' and 'Shark Zone.'

When a natural disaster strikes Malibu, unnatural terrors are unleashed! A handful of lifeguards find themselves in a desperate, bloody, and seemingly hopeless battle against a school of ancient sharks hungry for flesh.

Shades of Ice Sharks run through at least parts of Malibu Shark Attack, particularly when the survivors are holed up in a small room with the baddies swimming around outside and coming through the floor. The film is fairly typical of its genre, so that it is reminiscent of any number of similar movies is no surprise. The film employs laughable CGI and isn't afraid to show chewed up human meat and sliced up shark. It's plenty bloody and even more corny, but it's fun in a fairly brainless sort of way.

Malibu Shark Attack Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Malibu Shark Attack looks pitiful on Blu-ray. Heavy banding appears in the opening underwater shots. Early establishing shots around Malibu are a mess: flat, processed, absent solid definition and deep color. Unfortunately, as the film proper begins, the image quality nosedive holds strong. It's rough and ragged, featuring jagged edges and poor definition across the entire spectrum of elements. There is absolutely no feel for color depth. Would-be bright red lifeguard garb is painfully flat, as is every color in the movie. There are also stray speckles and hairs and for whatever reason an odd framing mistake where about 60% of the bottom edge of the screen is very slightly raised higher than the rest, leaving a partial black line along the bottom.

Malibu Shark Attack Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Malibu Shark Attack features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 lossless soundtrack. The audio is also processed. Dialogue often sounds tinny but does image well enough to the center. Music finds adequate width and decent clarity. Gunfire in chapter six sounds like a cap gun and various chainsaws lack real oomph. The lack of a subwoofer channel severely hurts the presentation.

Malibu Shark Attack Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This Blu-ray release of Malibu Shark Attack contains no supplemental content.

Malibu Shark Attack Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

This is obviously genre fan bait, not Oscar bait, and it works well enough as a completely mindless exercise in goofy Z-movie fun. If expectations are kept in check fans might find it to be a tolerable experience. Unfortunately, the featureless Blu-ray's A/V specs are intolerable. For hardcore Shark movie fans only.