Killer Mermaid

CONTAINS SPOILERS

Remember when I said that sometimes reviews just come to you and the creative juices flow naturally and other times it's not so easy? This is once again one of those times, but not because it's difficult to put into words what a film is about, or its style but purely because of how dull, uninteristing and tepid a film is. This is such a film unfortunately. Now having said all that, it's not as bad as it could have been and it does have Django in it. Django makes everything better right?

So our two fearless (or one maybe not so fearless) heroines (Kelly & Lucy) are invited to a Montenagro paradise by ones former boyfriend to catch up,drink, see the sea and generally have a merry ole time. You can probably see where this is going already. Upon arrival it is obvious that Boban (Micanovic) is still interested in Lucy (Burn) despite recently getting married. All formulaic stuff so far. Cue lots of rippled chests, girls showing off flesh and general pointless stuff. Oh and Kelly (Klebe) is afraid of the sea.

They eventually meet up with Boban's friend Alex (Stefanovic) who provides some measure of light relief. Unfortunately this goes on for far too long, an hour to be precise before anything really of note happens (barring a couple of fish hook gutting murder scenes). Character development is good. Dragging it out for over an hour before we even see what the film is about, is not so good. Goofing around and wearing bikinis no matter how pretty you all may be for a good film does not make. Anyway they eventually decide to go to the small island of Mamula (the films original title) where things start picking up.

Overall this is not a great film and while production values are reasonable for this type of stuff, the script and drawn out story let it down badly. That said, everyones acting is above par with people who have been in much better stuff before. Kind of makes one wonder how they were all actually convinced to apea...