I've said it before but it seems to me that Australian serial killer movies are ten a penny so if they are to make any kind of mark they really need to up the ante which is what "Dangerous Animals" does ten times over. The premis is very simple; Jennifer Lawrence lookalike Hassie Harrison finds herself prisoner on a fishing boat in shark-infested waters skippered by mad, bad and very dangerous to know Jai Courtney who has a habit of feeding his catches to the sharks.
Needless to say none of what happens to Hassie or her boyfriend Josh Heuston, who comes to her rescue, is particularly pleasant, (this is a very violent film), but director Sean Byrne knows how to keep the suspense at boiling point and provide a few very neat twists in what is basically a tired genre and this one had me yelling at the screen, something I haven't done in quite awhile. In fact, I have a feeling that "Dangerous Animals" could be a cult classic of the future. It's certainly the best shark film I've seen since "Jaws".
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