Jaws: The Revenge

"This time it's personal."

1987 1h 29m EN

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Synopsis

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After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.

“This time it's personal.”

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Cast

Lorraine Gary
Ellen Brody
Lance Guest
Michael Brody
Mario Van Peebles
Jake
Michael Caine
Hoagie Newcombe
Karen Young
Carla Brody
Judith Barsi
Thea Brody
Lynn Whitfield
Louisa
Mitchell Anderson
Sean Brody

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joseph Sargent
Writers: Michael De Guzman
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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39 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Jaws Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joseph Sargent, shot by John McPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Michael Small. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael Brown shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Lorraine Gary and Lance Guest and Mario Van Peebles carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "This time it's personal.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Joseph Sargent directs. John McPherson behind the camera. Michael Small scores. Michael Brown cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
239 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Jaws Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Joseph Sargent, shot by John McPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Michael Small. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Michael Brown shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Lorraine Gary and Lance Guest and Mario Van Peebles carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "This time it's personal.".
9IMDB entry: tt0093300 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 13 themes, including "dying and death", "shark attack", "animal attack", "bahamas".
11Released under 10 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: John McPherson
Original score: Michael Small
Editing: Michael Brown
Production design: John J. Lloyd
Makeup / hair: Tony Lloyd
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $23,000,000
Box office: $51,881,012
Return: 226% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

Awards

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Visual Effects

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Part of

Jaws Collection

The classic horror films about a great white shark that’s been attacking people off the coast of New England and bringing terror to their beach vacations. The first film was a major box-office success bringing in almost 500 million world wide and spawning the blockbuster movie phenomena and three sequels.

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Potential Kermode2017-02-14
★ 4/10
The shark was clearly a Michael Caine fan Somehow, the shark knew that Michael Caine was flying the plane to the Bahamas and simply had to follow his idol. Either that or he simply wanted Caine dead in retaliation for Beyond The Poseidon Adventure. This film is well made and the performances are pretty good but the whole thing is silly beyond repair. Was the shark psychic? Was Ellen Brody psychic? Was the log that Sean Brody was clinging onto whilst being eaten psychic? Who cares? Perhaps the shark in the Bahamas was a different shark? Perhaps the Brody's had a shark for each day of the week? Perhaps the whole thing was a dream - surely the most logical explanation. However, I do not want to bail out the film makers on this one. They are guilty as charged. Case dismissed. - Potential Kermode
r96sk2022-02-20
★ 5/10
Man, people really hate these last two sequels, eh? I don't even think <em>'Jaws 3-D'</em> is as awful as most fellow reviewers think and that's the case again with <em>'Jaws: The Revenge'</em>. It's bad, but it's not that bad. It makes little sense, though to be fair it is from a franchise that is all about a huge human-killing shark; despite sharks, in fact, not actually being all that keen on our rotten flesh. Michael Caine is somehow in this. Well, I say somehow... a trip to the Bahamas and a nice paycheck likely made it entirely logical from his view; as he reportedly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_The_Revenge#:~:text=%22I%20have%20never%20seen%20it%20%5Bthe%20film%5D%2C%20but%20by%20all%20accounts%20it%20is%20terrible.%20However%2C%20I%20have%20seen%20the%20house%20that%20it%20built%2C%20and%20it%20is%20terrific!%22" rel="nofollow">stated himself</a>. Lorraine Gary, meanwhile, spearheads an average support cast. Speaking of whom, I did find their dialogue and interactions to be very unnatural and forced. 5/10. There are many, many worse films out there though.
CinemaSerf2022-04-13
★ 4/10
Michael Caine must have needed another new swimming pool, otherwise what could have possessed him to turn up for this terribly poor sequel. We all start off with "Deputy Sean Brady" (Mitchell Anderson) sent to clear up some seaborne blockage before the fishing boats return. Needless to say, he encounters the distant cousin of his late father's menacing pal and is soon little more than tooth pickings. This hastens the arrival of the pretty but extremely bland Lance Guest as older brother "Michael" and guess what, the shark seems to have him on his sonar, too. Despite the fairly charismatic efforts of Caine, this whole thing is just nonsense from start to finish, made worse by Lorraine Gary's serious over-acting. There are just no scares. Even the legendary music has been mucked about with to ensure all trace of menace has been removed as surely as if by the (largely mechanical) shark itself. This is also a creature that seems to fancy it is in a "Tarzan" film, judging by it's fearful roaring. Either that, or maybe it is fed up because it has too much Brady stuck in it's incisors? To be fair, there is some fine underwater photography and I've never seen a shark eat a plane before - even one made of wafer biscuits, but sadly though nowhere near as bad as "Jaws 3" (1983), this is a sad end to the franchise that ought never to have been made.