Every shark movie owes a debt to the sacred mother Jaws, but the thriller about bitey creatures spreading carnage and mayhem in bad weather that Thrash most resembles is Alexandre Aja’s superior nail-biter, Crawl. (By the way, where is that sequel we were promised?) Instead of voracious alligators preying on Florida locals trapped by a Category 5 hurricane, this time it’s a bunch of aggressive bull sharks and one very hungry pregnant great white cruising into a coastal South Carolina town when the levees break and the floodwaters rise.
While the title begs to lose the first “h,” Tommy Wirkola’s film is actually kind of fun in its silly, disposable way, and should do decent numbers on Netflix, where it was picked up after Sony dropped plans for a theatrical release. That’s if audiences can get on board with eyebrow-raising plot points like Phoebe Dynevor’s Lisa popping
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