Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Leofwine_draca Without a doubt the most BORING JAWS rip-off you're ever likely to see, I had the misfortune to catch the extended two-hour-plus cut of this film – and did I regret it! A silly sexploitation film masquerading as a monster flick, TINTORERA is utterly inoffensive throughout, aside from one key area which I'll come to later. Now, I'm a great fan of trash movies, and I also love Mexican flicks: horror films, masked wrestlers, you name it. Knowing that Rene Cardona Jr. delivered such cheese as TREASURE OF THE AMAZON and NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CATS, I was pretty excited about watching this flick. Heck, his DAD made the cult B-movie NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES, so how could his son go wrong? Well he did, with this misfiring, yawn-inducing effort at a sex film.The main problem with TINTORERA as a sex film is that it's boring. The sexy is silly rather than sleazy, and even when a couple of women avoid rape by openly giving themselves to the rapists you can't find offence. No, the focus of this film is on the nudity, and there's a ton of it, although some male viewers might find it a bit dubious when I say that MOST of the nudity in the film is from the two guys...do I REALLY want to see near-constant butt shots from these chaps? Of course, there's a fair share of topless and full nudity from the women too, but it really does get boring after a while. Amusingly, two British actresses, Susan George and Fiona Lewis, turn up for the sole purpose of getting naked. Lewis appears for the first twenty minutes and wanders around topless before getting eaten by a shark (nobody notices – not even the viewer) while the awful George shows up for forty minutes in the middle of the flick and appears (very briefly) naked. We're stuck with her absolutely diabolical acting for a good long time, though.What about the sharks? Well, truth be told, this film DOES have some of the bloodiest death-by-shark scenes in any movie. When somebody bites it (or rather gets bitten) here, the sea around them turns blood red for about a mile and body parts are everywhere. The problem is that there are only two such scenes in a two-hour-plus flick. So what does the rest of the film entail? Two guys sitting around chatting, sailing, drinking, and screwing. That sums it up nicely. Sometimes they speak in English, sometimes in Spanish, but it doesn't matter because they never say anything of merit. Now, I liked Hugo Stiglitz when I saw him in NIGHTMARE CITY, but this must be his worst role. He's just creepy and dull, if those two traits are possible in one character. Andres Garcia is mildly amusing I guess, but he doesn't have anything to work with other than his face-value attractive womaniser role.I tried to like this film, and I looked out for 'fun' stuff. There is a little. The underwater photography is top-notch, and there are some hilarious Darth Vader-style breathing effects dubbed over the shark. But it's all so routine – so routine that I can't remember how the shark actually dies at the end, although I only finished watching this film two days ago. So all that's left to write about is the offensive bit, and that's the real-life animal killing. If you thought those Italian cannibal flicks had too much of it, wait until you see what's in store here: guys harpooning fish over and over again, for minutes on end. At least a few dozen real creatures died so this movie could get shot. Watching a fish – sometimes sharks – writhing in their death throes and bleeding all over the place is NOT my idea of a good time. It's cheap and it's utterly reprehensible. The worst bit is probably when they shoot a fish and we get a close up of the poor creature bleeding through its gills. Not nice! This sort of stuff normally doesn't bother me but it's so graphic and in-your-face here that it's impossible to ignore. This is why TINTORERA ranks as one of the worst films I've seen, an utter waste of time with no redeeming values whatsoever. I guess this is one of those movies where the shorter US cut is actually BETTER; at least there's less of this mess to sit through.

RevRonster Okay, the film is terrible and this attempt at ripping off "Jaws" was very obvious. They even make sure to limit the shark's screen time but take it a little too far as the story very, VERY often forgets there's even an existence of the shark.The editing, the acting, the unnecessary nudity...all these factors work against the film and it actual has no redeeming qualities that I could find. Normally, I'm a big fan of bad shark movies because they are some of the best accidental comedies you can find but this one felt so poorly produced and put together that I felt sorry for it and couldn't laugh at it as it stumbled its way through a story that already felt like it had no idea what it was doing. The only thing I found interesting was the film seemed loaded with accidental subtext and hints that the two male leads, despite constantly chasing tale, may have been in love with each other the entire time. If that was the intention, the film could have been ground-breaking and interesting but it wasn't and just the fault of odd acting choices from the two leads and a director who really loved close ups of these two actors staring at each other with a lustful passion that burns hotter than a million suns.Hi! My name is Rev. Ron and I love movies. So much so that I write a blog where I review whatever film I am watching at the time. You can read a more in-depth review of this film (and others) as well as an interesting theory about accidental subtext in this film at my blog at revronmovies.blogspot.com.

Chase_Witherspoon Mediterranean playboys woo the affections of sexy tourists, and treat them to fun and frivolity aboard their yacht, while a ferocious tiger shark interrupts their sordid interludes. Stephen (Stiglitz) is convalescing aboard a luxury yacht when he meets Miguel (Garcia) a free-loading local who wines and dines the tourists like some sort of male escort. Their initial meeting is curt, but over time they become firm friends. The homosexual undertones between the two characters is interesting depth, and while the issue is never expounded to any degree, the subject of relationships in general is exhaustively displayed here in its most fantastic extremes (the threesome pact with Susan George is examined in jealous detail).Aside from Susan George as the main love interest (there are so many, it's hard to keep track), Fiona Lewis and Priscilla Barnes pop in for a good time, not a long time, just to add some comforting familiarity for non-Spanish speaking audiences. The soundtrack is memorable (a couple of Chanter Sisters disco beats and a nice Carol Connors penned melody sung by Kelly Stevens, "Together Until Goodbye") and the scenery is warm and inviting, but the savagery with which Cardona dispenses dozens of sharks is vulgar and distasteful.Overall, while the all-too-few shark attack scenes look convincing, and the multitude of semi-nude babes are distracting, the film will more than likely be fatally overlong for most audiences. The soft porn-like titillation aspects are also likely to distance the average shark film fan, but it's not quite as explicit as the concept implies. In spite of its flaws, "Tintorera" remains an addictive motion picture, one that seems to improve with each subsequent viewing.

joey-rodriguez First of all, I don't understand why any movie made in Mexico gets this "bad, cheesy, laughable" comments. I have watched this movie several times and it's better than the killer shark movies produced now-a-days by the Sci-Fi channel.The plot is simple yet effective, the acting is what you would expect from a 70's movie. The shark attacks (specially the one at night next to the boat with a REAL shark) are really believable, it achieves it's goal of scaring the crowd in my personal point of view.The only thing I didn't like was the excessive nudity, although it keeps it groovy to say the least. A good Saturday night pop corn flick if you have no plans to go out or if you just want to have a good time while cuddling in the couch.