When millions in cartel cocaine go missing off Florida's coast, the search turns savage as vicious sharks close in on anyone daring to claim the stash.
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- ርልዪረAugust 13, 2025If only the ingenuity used to smuggle drugs could be put to more productive use! These guys have discovered a great wheeze to smuggle tons of cocaine into the USA by hiding it in jars of innocuous looking gunge. Unfortunately their boat sinks right in the middle of a shark feeding ground so their kingpin despatches a crack team of retrieval experts. Meantime, DEA agent "Gia" (Angela Cole) has recently been widowed and so is taking some time off diving near, well yes - you've guessed. Innocently enough, she approaches another boat crewed by "Charlotte" (Ashton Leigh) and her mean pal "Jareth" (Johnny Ramey) and is soon embroiled in helping them fetch their crates of precious cargo from the sea bed. She has some sort of gadget that deters the menacing sharks, but will that help keep them all alive? Will "Gia" want it too? Pretty swiftly we know all there is to know about these people, the identity of their kingpin on the land and so now we ought to be able to just settle back and hope that Mother Nature lets things take their course. Sadly, though, that might only have taken ten minutes and we have to fill ninety, so we now have to endure loads of banal dialogue and set-piece kick-boxing scenarios as the sharks play nowhere near a prominent enough role in this weakly structured and executed seagoing drama. The acting is fairly mediocre across the board and the ending is truly ridiculous. Without wishing to give anything away, but if a shark bit off your arm whilst you were paddling about on a dinghy, you'd be likely to be screaming your head off before dying of shock. I doubt you'd be sitting, draped in a swimming towel, having a chat! Yep, it's that kind of film that, given there's hardly anything of our underwater menace, I think is best avoided.
- Dario TibayMay 15, 2026A shark thriller with cartel drug dealers, a widowed DEA agent, and an electromagnetic shark deterrent should not be this dull. Great White Waters has all the ingredients of a watchable B-movie and consistently fumbles them. Angela Cole is a strong lead and Steve Hanks makes for a charismatic villain, but the script by Ferrante and Geoff Meed gives them too little to work with — thin dialogue, underdeveloped side characters, and a tonal inconsistency that leaves the film unsure whether it wants to be scary, funny, or just competent. The sharks themselves are erratic, both as CGI and as narrative threats — they show up when the plot needs them and conveniently calm down when scenes require conversation. The setting in the Florida Keys is beautiful and almost entirely wasted. It's coherent enough to follow, competently made enough not to embarrass itself, and unmemorable enough to forget before the credits finish rolling. There are worse ways to spend ninety-three minutes, but there are much better shark movies out there.
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Great White Waters was released on July 4, 2025.
Great White Waters was directed by Anthony C. Ferrante.
Great White Waters has a runtime of 1h 34m.
Great White Waters was produced by David Michael Latt.
When millions in cartel cocaine go missing off Florida's coast, the search turns savage as vicious sharks close in on anyone daring to claim the stash.
The key characters in Great White Waters are Gia Shah (Angela Cole), Charlotte Harlow (Ashton Leigh), Jareth Danzo (Johnny Ramey).
Great White Waters is rated TV-MA.
Great White Waters is an Action, Drama, Thriller film.
Great White Waters has an audience rating of 3.7 out of 10.