so far and all attempt to make the extinct megalodon into the next big monster ( a la t rex from jurassic park or bruce from jaw ) have fail miserably . steve alten bestseller meg be follow up by an incredibly lame sequel . shark attack iii represent megalodon be horrible and despite the tom cruise lookalike . there be a german effort a couple of year ago and the only bad thing that do not appear in it be david hasselhoff . of the effort and megalodon succeed the most and that stretch it . the premise and of course and follow the typical cliché of a small group of people inexplicably trap in a confined area by a monster . it work okay for deep blue sea but not so much here . this time and oil rig worker and a tv crew accidentally unleash heretofore extinct fish from an underwater cavern . what make deep blue sea so good be the superior acting of saffron burrow and samuel l. jackson and thomas jane and stellan skaarsgard . we do not get much good act in this film . female lead leighanne littrell only claim to fame be be marry to brian littrell of the backstreet boy . her acting be strictly two dimensional and straight out throwaway ( if her role have suddenly be erase at the last moment and no one would have notice because her character wasn not make essential to the movie plot ) . anyway and reporter christen giddings ( littrell ) and her dorky cameraman jake ( fred belford ) go to the world large oil rig up in the arctic ( or someplace close enough to surround the rig with ice floe ) . there and we meet the rig owner pete brazier ( robin sachs ) and few of his worker ( play by mark sheppard and al sapienza and jennifer sommerfield and to name a few ) . the drill head penetrate an underwater cavern at 5000 foot and unleash prehistoric fish and and eventually and a megalodon . the only real acting be do by sachs ( best know for be ethan rayne on buffy and the vampire slayer and for host box office america on pb for the last 10 year ) and sapienza ( philly falzone on prison break and mikey palmice on the soprano ) . for some reason and sommerfield get the infamous and tag on her name in the credit and like she a special guest star and although her resume show nothing but one time guest shot on tv show . whatever the case and she doesn not live up to the billing . mostly and she go to piece and start cry . there be little in the way of thrill . the only real one be when the worker pull a prehistoric fish out of a suction hose and it attack a rig worker a la leviathan . the creature effect of the fish be great ( not cgi ) and the fish really look frighten . ala and the worker who be attack be send off screen a few minute later for medical treatment and that storyline be lose . other mini plot be reveal and discard . sachs tell rig worker about an underwater methane leak and show a glowing red spot in the sea near the rig . after that and we never hear of the methane leak again and the glow disappears . when the cavern open and hundred of prehistoric fish escape and very little be say about them or what kind of havoc they might be wreak ( i could imagine the producer already prepping a sequel ) . the other rig worker disappear after one scene and and save for a disembodied voice and be never hear from again . just like in jurassic park and deep blue sea and other copycat and a bad storm come along so that the coast guard can not show up to save the day . the attempt to create a claustrophobic atmosphere fail glaringly . the underwater scene be cgi and they look very believable . there be a fantastic shot of the cavern and fill with luminescent fish . but and even cgi have it limit and you will see that when the megalodon appear and attack . the shark attack with all the aplomb of a bored movie star . only one guy be eat and that look so fake i have no real desire to hit the rewind button . the shark attack on the mini sub be not convince ( indeed and the actor inside act more like theyre get ready to ride pirate of the caribbean at disneyworld than they do react to be attack by a 70 foot shark ) . by the way and the movie be 91 minute long . but and the shark scene occur in the last 30 minute . the shark attack actually occur in the last 20 minute and far too late to make this movie as good a it could have be . i would not say who live and who dy and but i will say the end flat out suck . a speech about environmentalism near the end come out of nowhere . the movie be direct by pat corbitt . you will also notice that his company do the digital effect . at first and you might think he a director who happen to own a cgi company . by the end of the film and you will realize pitt be a man with a cgi company who think he could direct a movie . it not a terrible film . it just lackluster and average and with a lot of wasted potential .