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  Review by Sean Baker 8

  Watched the Kino Lorber Blu-ray

  First time watch for me. A strange film that tries to sell Acapulco tourism, tackle the complexities of a throuple relationship and be a Jaws rip-off at the same time. Gratuitous nudity and yet sadly also gratuitous animal violence.

  Great commentary by Film Historians Troy Howarth and Rod Barnet.

  Would love to learn more about René Cardona Jr.. Anybody know if there's a doc on him?

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★ 9

  Fun fact; ¡Tintorera! was originally a novel written by Ramón Bravo, the man who played the underwater zombie in that crazy shark scene in Zombi 2!

  I watched the longer 2hrs version that is essentially a soap opera at a sunny holiday resort. It is more about a hedonistic group of people enjoying themselves than an actual killer shark movie. The first attack doesn't even happen until almost 40 minutes in! Still, all the crazy antics of these free spirited people made this a somewhat enjoyable watch..

  Except I could have done with a lot less (or you know.. none..) of the real fish/shark impalements that happen in this movie. Those scenes were horrible.

  Tintorera basically becomes the story of…

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  Review by Tyler Baptist ★★★ 1

  Tintorera surpasses Cannibal Holocaust for animal cruelty, as more than a handful of sharks, barracuda, manta ray, and other fish, are harpooned or shot right before your very eyes... animal-lovers avoid... but if you can make it past this cruelty to animals there's a surprisingly unique movie here, where shark hunters/womanizers strike up a three-way consensual relationship that manages to leap over conventional boundaries and enemies become friends, but animals become enemies in this Mexican soap-opera-slash-weird-Jaws-rip-off featuring barbaric treatment of the oceans' creatures....

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  Review by FakeVoorhees ★★★

  Tintorera is the most laid back, plotless movie about a killer shark possible. The killer shark occasionally attacks but the majority of the film is spent aimlessly following Hugo Stiglitz and Andres Garcia as they hunt sharks and women on the beaches of Mexico. When Susan George arrives on the scene, they halt their woman-chasing ways to enter a three way relationship with her. Despite the lack of narrative drive, it's never boring. The cast is likeable and the shark attacks are gory fun.

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  Review by Boof65 ★★★

  The main problem with Tintorera is that it doesn't know what sort of film it wants to be. Piggybacking on the success of Jaws, it promotes itself as a killer shark movie, but this aspect is almost secondary to the peripheral shenanigans that ensue, including sex, nudity, swinging parties, disco dancing and a polyamorous affair with Susan George!
  The underwater cinematography is impressive and the shark attack sequences are quite intense, with one attack in particular being genuinely visceral (you'll know it when you see it). However, these moments are too few and far between.
  A word of warning: There are several brutal shark hunting scenes featuring footage of real sharks and other marine life being speared and clubbed to death which I found difficult to watch.
  Tintorera is worth seeing, but cheap copycat films such as this really only serve to establish what a genuine masterpiece of cinema the original Jaws actually was.

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★

  A feature length telenovela where a shark occasionally crashes a pretty chill three way and, of course, doesn’t adhere to proper group sex etiquette.

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  Review by Patrick Lohmeier ★★½ 3

  Tintorera ist zehn Prozent Tiersnuff, zwanzig Prozent Jaws-Ripoff, und siebzig Prozent Hugo Stiglitz Pimmelparade.

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  Review by col_plimp ★★ 9

  Gefühlt 90 Prozent von Tintorera - Meeresungeheuer greifen an sind zum einen schwafeliger Swinger-Softporn der 70er mit aufgesextem Drama, knappen Bikinihöschen, weißen Hinterteilen, mexikanischen Macho-Muskelmännern mit entsprechenden Sprüchen und außerdem ziemlich unschönen Aufnahmen vom Harpunenfischen bzw. Abschlachten der gesamten Meeresfauna.
  Die restlichen 10 Prozent sind echt stimmungsvoller und goriger Unterwasser-Horror aus dem Kielwasser des Weißen Haies.

  Fazit:
  Weißer Hai 100%
  Tintorera 10% + 5% ästhetischer Körperkult-Bonus + 5% für einige lächerlich-trashige Momente.

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  Review by GoodBadMovies ★★ 2

  Ein viel zu langes (127 min.!), zähes und seichtes Touristen-lernen-sich-im-Urlaub-kennen-Filmchen gewürzt mit endlosen langweiligen Erotikszenen und zugegeben ein paar schicken (Unterwasser-)Bildern, etwas Ferienatmosphäre und der mexikanischen B-Filmberühmtheit Hugo Stiglitz. Gestört durch gelegentlichen und ärgerlichen Tiersnuff (!) bietet "Tintorera" bis zum Ende hin kaum "Hai-Action". Die wurde aber gut gelöst und überzeugt.

  Letztendlich ist "Tintorera" aber eine ziemlich öde Mogelpackung.

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  Review by hiruko ★★★

  “She didn’t make love to me. She was thinking of you. Twice she called me Steve.”

  Low key drama about two carefree dudes living life, banging chicks and hunting sharks for fun. Director René Cardona Jr cashes in on Jaws without ripping it off. The shark hunting scenes are unfortunately real. Composer Basil Poledouris scores it and if you’ve ever wanted to see Priscilla Barnes (Three’s Company’s Terri Alden) topless, here’s your chance.

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  Review by Blair Russell ★★½

  A film about two cads cavorting around a seaside Mexican town... where a Tiger Shark shows up once in a blue moon.

  For years I have known of this movie; the fact that there are different cuts of it all there (some over 2 hours long!) and most of the ones on YouTube looked poor and/or were in the wrong aspect ratio. Eventually I figured this would be given a shot; after all, Scorpion Releasing put it on Blu. Well, last night on MGMHD they showed the 85 minute cut so this was the opportune time, and... if only the titular killer shark would have been present more often. The director was Rene Cardona, Jr. so of course the star…

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  Review by HorrorHarry ★★½

  This is not a shark attack movie as much as it's a movie about a couple of Mexican guys slayin tourist ass on the beaches of Tulum. Oh and there's a couple of shark attack deaths.

  A mildly fun Jaws cash-in that has some cool underwater photography, some significant nudity (including brief dong), a cool but repetitive disco soundtrack, oh and there's a couple of shark attack deaths.

  Not much of a movie but it would make an ok party watch.