Looks like it was shot on a bootleg smart phone. I love shark movies but this was the first movie ever where I couldn't get past the opening scenes. Truly atrocious acting, editing, directing, etc.

Right, well as I sat down to watch the 2021 movie titled "Jaws of Los Angeles" (aka "Apex Predators"), I must admit that I didn't really harbor much of any high hopes or expectations for the movie. But still, with it being a shark movie that I hadn't already seen before, and on the snowballs chance in Hell of it being a great shark movie, of course I sat down to watch "Jaws of Los Angeles".

And this movie was atrociously bad. Seriously, I mean this is one of the worst shark movies I have suffered through, and I had been through a lot of shark movies. What made "Jaws of Los Angeles" fail was the writing from writer and director Dustin Ferguson.

Not at a single moment throughout the course of this movie, which made a lot of use of stock footage of sharks, did I ever feel that the danger of actual shark attacks was present. And it didn't really help much that the actors and actresses in the movie were putting on what could best be classified as dubious and questionable performances all round.

As for the cast in "Jaws of Los Angeles", well... Let's just say that the managed to get together an ensemble of actors and actresses, sure. But let's not go ahead and say that these were top notch performers. In fact, the vast majority of performances in the entire movie were downright abysmal to look at. If you do enjoy watching questionable plastic surgery results, then consider yourself in for a treat as you sit down to watch "Jaws of Los Angeles".

"Jaws of Los Angeles" was frightfully devoid of sharks, well aside from stock footage that didn't have any feel of menacing or danger to it. The movie makers didn't even bother to make a prop for close-up shots of shark attacks.

If you enjoy shark movies, just like I do, then do yourself a favor and stay well clear of the 2021 movie "Jaws of Los Angeles". I am rating this train wreck of a movie a generous one out of ten stars. This movie simply wasn't worth the time, money or effort.

Actually I will go as far as to say that the movie's cover/poster is actually the best thing about the entire ordeal. And that is just a sad fact.

Following a series of gruesome accidents, the sheriff of a small beach town comes to find the attacks here have been caused by a vicious strain of mutated sharks attacking anything in the waters and sets out with the determined son of a local land-owner trying to open a new resort to stop the bloodthirsty creatures.

This was a somewhat underwhelming goofy genre effort. One of the better elements present here is the first half which sets up the inner goings-on while featuring the shark attacking the outskirts of their lives. The idea of this one doing a deep dive into the lives of the residents here, from the land-owners' son trying to keep his personal life together as his ex-girlfriend keeps trying to interfere in his new romance, a developer trying to get a project off the ground, and a detective looking to investigate the origin of the shark attacks with the help of a marine biologist to try to track it down based on the creatures' habits serve this one merely to give an idea of what's going on with the residents throughout here. As well, there's also a lot to like here once this moves past the setup into the generally goofy and enjoyable nature of the shark attacks. These are initially kept to brief moments of the unseen shark ambushing victims where they're out in the water like the diver attack or the ambush on the models' photoshoot. That it pulls off the scene of it attacking a hunters' boat without showing the creature itself is quite a feat as the action features the shark taking out the hunters is a fun enough concept, and the crazy finale features some fun scenes of their plan to stop the creatures that are quite enjoyable. Along with the generally over-the-top revelation that comes about in the closing minutes, this manages to get quite a lot to like about it. This one does have some troublesome aspects. The main drawback on display here is the general lack of shark action throughout the film. With the shark itself being shown as a brief glimpse in one sequence until the finale and relying on stock footage until that point, the film can very easily be forgiven for not being a shark film with the focus on the personal issues going on instead. Carrying out endless scenes of padding as characters walk around the city trying to figure out how to stop the creatures is also a major factor here as these scenes go on forever is also a part of the hold-up to keeping the film from letting loose on the shark action as it should. As well, there's also the film's tendency to become obvious about its low-budget origins, not just with the aforementioned padding and lack of shark action but the whole affairs come of decidedly like this was done quickly and illegally which is all to be expected here.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and Violence.