I am baffled as to how the filmmakers accomplished this.... they saw the huge success of "Jaws" and its numerous B-movie ripoffs ripoffs like "Barracuda", re-titled their execrably boring jungle movie to fit, then... somehow traveled back in time to 1972 to release their movie before the killer animal craze even happened.
That is the only way to explain that this film has the title "Piranha" at all since the actual piranha action and even piranha-referencing dialog is exceedingly slight. Imagine if you took a Tarzan movie and renamed it "Crocodile!" because of a brief tussle with one of the reptiles on the way to the real plot.
Nothing worth recounting happens in this movie and it all happens at a glacial pace. I watched it on YouTube thinking it was the famous 1978 Joe Dante "Piranha" but, no it isn't. The print is terrible, all the blue has faded to gray. It's possible the scenic photography was attractive at one time, but no longer.
Skip it.
That is the only way to explain that this film has the title "Piranha" at all since the actual piranha action and even piranha-referencing dialog is exceedingly slight. Imagine if you took a Tarzan movie and renamed it "Crocodile!" because of a brief tussle with one of the reptiles on the way to the real plot.
Nothing worth recounting happens in this movie and it all happens at a glacial pace. I watched it on YouTube thinking it was the famous 1978 Joe Dante "Piranha" but, no it isn't. The print is terrible, all the blue has faded to gray. It's possible the scenic photography was attractive at one time, but no longer.
Skip it.