First...let me preface this by saying that the original Piranha and even the lower than low budget sequel Piranha 2: The Spawning were always fascinating films to me growing up. I also want to add that High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes remake were good films and Aja in my opinion had started to define himself as a contemporary Wes Craven. Mirrors was a step down but I looked forward to Piranha from the moment I heard it was being made. I didn't expect Citizen Kane. Gratuitous violence, nudity, obvious set ups I did expect. I expected and hour and a half of mindless entertainment. Piranha 3D offers you all of those things. What I expected to make the movie special was Aja's ability to create tension and set up sequences to involve the viewer. In this aspect the movie failed. Its starts off wasting a perfect opportunity to be clever with Richard Dreyfuss (in my opinion was wasted....yeah I got it I'm tired and I wanna go to bed) and it goes wasted. His demise and lack of dialogue are a perfect send off for how the rest of the movie is. It fails to shock or involve you. The next 45 minutes are cuts between Elisabeth Shue as the Sheriff investigating Dreyfuss disappearance and a big budget Girls Gone Laka Havasu. While the scenery is appealing it gets old and your waiting for the movie to get going. I was OK with this as long as the payoff was worth the wait. It wasn't. Jerry O' Connell was annoying, Adam Scott shooting individual Piranhas with a 12 guage was just foolish, Ving Rhames using the propeller to slice and dice the fish was stupid knowing he was killing himself. There are thousands and thousands of Piranhas yet somehow the two young heroines are able to kill them all by exploding a small boat, the mega Piranha was I saw that coming times two. All in all if you want to see a 3D private part eaten by a Piranha then spend the money. Other than that skip this one. Boring.
Review of Piranha 3D
