The premise in the core of Bait 3D is equally enticing as it is silly, which is to tsunami the entire shore area of an Aussie beach, and floods an impossibly strongly built old grocer. This leaves a slew of strangers trapped inside; with the flood, and the very much possible aftershock the least of their worries as a couple of twelve-foot great whites came in with the sea's freak havoc. In the center of the commotion is a mourning Josh (Xavier Samuel from The Loved Ones, looking stern instead of tortured) who fatefully reunites with ex-fiance Tina (Sharni Vinson) one year after Tina's brother died with, as you correctly guessed, shark attack.
Director Kimble Rendall is a visionary for the subgenre, and he's well enough to do right by it. His loony script is workable but will require intensive effort and although Rendall's commitment to it is already commendable, there's still lackluster to it. We are far from characters who make the dumbest decisions and we are compensated with better ones, I mean, this is an mid-quality Aussie production, I didn't expect much. Characters, while some needs better built, are surprisingly in possession of some depth. Samuel's character and the other remaining actors who deserves a note (Chronicle star Alex Russell; Phoebe Tonkin times out from being a bitchy witch in The Secret Circle; and Nip/Truck fans will likely enjoy to see Julian McMahon do other things besides being a surgeon) weren't required much acting to even critically analyze. They're all serviceable and weren't loathing enough to make me scratch the head, and that was that.
Animatronics used in Bait 3D is unjustifiably lifelike, but when CGI is fleshed out, the film spoils. The sharks are grim, in any form they are in, and each attack generates gruesome, scare and action. Rendall's decisions doesn't bring up exacerbation to the film, but in fact the otherwise. Logic is what's in lackluster here - and no, it doesn't require the film to be mind-bending. Simple things like the quite impossible improvisation of a supposedly shark-proof suit made out of shopping baskets, and the formidable erection of the grocer building that everything else in the shore area is wiped out except it.
Bait 3D isn't your perfect finny menace movie, but if faced with a few high-end Hollywood prods, it will become triumphant in trumping them in no time. It outsmarts some of its cliched family members, but if I'm looking for a real good Aussie shark film, I'd go with Andrew Traucki's The Reef, or if I don't mind if it isn't Aussie, of course, I'd stick with the classic: Jaws. B
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