She Sold Him New Zealand ! ⭐️⭐️

Sharks Paradise 1986 is a TV movie shot in Surfers Paradise, Australia. It’s in the so bad it’s good sub genre. Nothing dates a movie more than a cheesy synthesiser sound track and a matching fashion sense. Fortunately the synthesisers are minimised and pop tunes from the period are integrated well with the action, unfortunately the wayward fashion of the time isn’t. Channeling vibes from an American hit TV show at the time, Miami Vice, our chief protagonists comes across as the Australian version of Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas. If you can get past the stylistic choices there is a fairly passable B grade plot to be enjoyed. The director  seems to have invented shoddy cam  thirty years earlier than was previously known. I hate my car chases and beach scenes shaken up to the point of being blurred out. It’s heavy on the crime show action but the plot is sharksploitation centred. Shark appearances are all stock footage of relatively  harmless species and the attacks are largely suggestive only. The rubber shark fin is the real star here and is used to good effect in act three. If you are nostalgic it is enjoyable enough and fast paced enough and as a piece of Australiana it captures the glitz of the time. However it needs a Great White to add menace. With all the sharksploitation production talent in Australia this plot deserves a second go round with more bite and the comedy angle played up.

Only In Australia And Only In 1986