The Colossus is the world’s largest offshore drilling rig. Standing seven stories above water, the rig is able to drill thousands of feet into the ocean’s core. The Nexecon Corporation has sent The Colossus to the artic for it’s first strike and a camera crew has been sent along with the staff to cover the rig’s initial mission. But deep in the ocean’s depths the crew finds something more than oil, they find a section of ocean hidden and untouched for millions of years and they have also found something very, very hungry.

Megalodon is a straight-to-video release horror movie dealing with a sixty foot, prehistoric shark, it’s nothing new, nothing unpredictable and nothing remarkable, but it does try and it does it’s best with a very low budget.

Evil company, blah blah blah, terrorized work crew, blah blah blah, one guy who warns everyone else, blah blah blah, really big shark, blah blah, blah, bad effects and acting. Slap a cover on it and put it on the shelf. That’s Megalodon and it’s all by the numbers. You can pretty much guess how this one starts and ends without even seeing it and without much effort you can fill in the middle with just a little more thought and effort.

But Megalodon does try to be something more. At first the CGI is painfully terrible, but it grows on you to the point where it is actually, well, not that bad. The plot is kind of silly and there isn’t one recognizable face in the cast. So why did I watch this entire one? It was kind of entertaining, I guess.

I sat there with a grilled cheese in one hand, an ice cold glass of home brewed iced tea in another, a hot bowl of tomato soup in front of me and a mix of rottweilers and pit bulls scattered about the room waiting for me to toss them a saltine cracker from the pile near my soup and we all kind of enjoyed the movie. Megalodon is one of those flicks you kind of watch with no rhyme or reason, it was like watching one of your favorite movies on TV full of commercials. It gives you a chance to socialize and snack in the comfort of your own home, know what I mean?

Like I’ve said before, I love me some killer/giant shark movies and I’ll pretty much watch anyone of them that come my way, Megalodon, wasn’t the best and it wasn’t the worse, but it allowed for some quality time with the dogs and some serious time with great comfort food.

4.5 of 10