Jaws 4 - The Revenge

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 29% of users liked it
    (85,959 ratings)

This third sequel to the 1975 mega-hit Jaws returns Lorraine Gary to the role of Ellen Brody, widow of the Roy Scheider character from the first two films. When her son Sean, the current police chief of shark-plagued Amity Island, is killed by the beast, Ellen goes to the Bahamas to comfort her… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Michael De Guzman
Genres
Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1987 Wide
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Pacing leaves a lot to be desired and the moment-of-attack sequences, full of jagged cuts and a great deal of noise, more closely resemble the view from inside a washing machine.

  • Raven Snook, Time Out

    It's mostly just a matter of waiting till feeding time.

  • Caryn James, New York Times

    Mild and predictable, the very things an adventure movie should never be.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Thrillseekers, this one's pretty dismal.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    After Steven Spielberg's original, which combined shock effects with comedy and grand sea adventure touches, the series has degenerated into your basic fish-bites-man story, with very few imaginative wrinkles.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tyler R


    This abomination can only be described with a few words: Boring characters, dialogue that makes you cringe, stupid plot and A SHARK THAT STANDS ON WATER AND ROARS LIKE A LION.

  • Directors C


    What were they thinking! What was Michael Caine thinking! Another pointless repetition and a meaningless side story about a pilot who likes a woman. Dont go into the cinema.

  • Alexander D


    JAWS: THE REVENGE, sadly not saved by it's none-too-clever subtitle, finally takes a PG-13 rating (without it invented the other three should have just taken an R rating)--but that doesn't mean it's at all thrilling just because there's about a gallon or two of… More

  • Curtis L


    Wow. First of all this movie completely ignores all that happens in the third movie as if it didn't happen. And what does the shark (with his super powered ability to know where this family is at all times) have to get revenge for? Because it's shark friends were killed by… More

  • Randy T


    "what shark wouldn't want revenge against the survivors of the men who killed it?" -Roger Ebert

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