Cert: R-rated (disturbing scene)
Director: Michael Anderson
Screen writer: Luciano Vincenzoni ... (story and screenplay) and Sergio Donati , Robert Towne ... (uncredited)
Starring: Richard Harris , Charlotte Rampling , Will Sampson , Bo Derek , Keenan Wynn , Robert Carradine , Scott Walker , Peter Hooten , Wayne Heffley , Vincent Gentile , Don 'Red' Barry
Running time: 92 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A man opens a bed room door and finds a startled couple laying under their covers in bed. .
Violence & Gore:A woman warns a man to get back in the boat as a shark is swim closer and closer to him.
An orca swims by and bites into the shark, throwing him into the air as he bleeds to death. Blood clouds the water.
A man attempts at shooting an arrow into a male orca, but accidentally shoots a female beside him. A small chunk of tissue is ripped off the orca's dorsal fin, bleeding. The female screams in pain with the arrow in her side. She purposely tries to kill herself by swimming against moving boat propellers. A lot of blood clouds the water as a result. People pull the female orca up onto the boat with ropes. She hangs down head first, bleeding profusely. Then, she miscarries an unborn calf.
As the dead female orca is dropped from the boat, her mate pushes her, blood is still leaking from her mouth.
A village is shown on fire.
An orca bites a woman's leg off.
The orca jumps up and pulls men off a boat. He rips them apart underwater. A lot of blood is shown, but no tissue damage appears.
As a boat crashes into an iceberg, a man is crushed by falling ice. The ice gets bloody.
The orca thows a man into the air and slams him to death against and iceberg. He dies with his eyes open.
Profanity: There are uses of "hell" and "son of a bitch."
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Smoking on a boat
Frightening/Intense Scenes: All the violence described above, especially the female orca's miscarriage, can be extremely frightening. It is all harsh and brutal.
Story: After witnessing his mate and child's death from Nolan's hands, Orca, the killer whale, goes on a rampage in the fishermen's harbor. Under the villagers' pressure, Nolan, Rachel and an Indian sail after the great beast, who will bring them on his own turf.
Likes : JAWS with intelligence!!!!!!! For year ive wanted to watch this film but never got around to watching it's as it came out when i was born 1977 as this got allot of mixed reviews & so much hate review on it about it ripping off jaws.
Upon viewing this film for the first time yes i can say it heavily influenced from the jaws film just in a different way but from the boat scene & the horror moments, to compare the two jaws dose have the edge of suspense & horror as Orca is slightly predictable but orca make up for it in story line, instead of a shark that is just killing for the sake of killing, the killer whale is killing for a reason which give this film an edge over jaws, some may say its a rip off of jaws but i say this has a better story-line behind it than jaws not that jaws wasn't a great film because it was, but this just had that something extra.
In the beginning of the film it introduce the audience in to a tight family group of the killer whale you are actually given real fact about them which in very surprised with, but then the audience in trusted in this disturbing & quiet frighten scene which give the audience this shock factor, but unlike jaws where you routing for the people survive against a man eating shark, this film actual has you routing for the killer whale which is a clever & different way of filming a jaws like film because you actual feeling sorry for him & understand why & what happening is justified.
The acting is not bad for 1977 film, most of these actor & actress are Hollywood greatest like Richard Harris, Bo Derek & Charlotte Rampling with co star Will Sampson who you will recognize as the tribal Indian Taylor in the 1982 poltergeist & 1985 Poltergeist II: The Other Side.
Despite some of the flaws this film had this is a pretty good film, i think back in 1977 when jaws first came out i can imagine this film would have been scary to audiences back then, so ya i recommend watching this old classic film if you haven't already.
Dislikes : Some scene are overused sometime as some scene look the same cut scene which i assume was to saving money like most of the 70s & 80s film's they tend to use a cut scene over & over again in place's which didn't overly ruin the film as it kept the film rolling along at a stead pace.This really was the only flaws in the film.
Overall : Great story, Not quiet like jaws in horror but still a great film of it own,
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.1 out of 10 for story / concept
Screen writer: Luciano Vincenzoni ... (story and screenplay) and Sergio Donati , Robert Towne ... (uncredited)
Running time: 92 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: A man opens a bed room door and finds a startled couple laying under their covers in bed. .
Violence & Gore:A woman warns a man to get back in the boat as a shark is swim closer and closer to him.
An orca swims by and bites into the shark, throwing him into the air as he bleeds to death. Blood clouds the water.
A man attempts at shooting an arrow into a male orca, but accidentally shoots a female beside him. A small chunk of tissue is ripped off the orca's dorsal fin, bleeding. The female screams in pain with the arrow in her side. She purposely tries to kill herself by swimming against moving boat propellers. A lot of blood clouds the water as a result. People pull the female orca up onto the boat with ropes. She hangs down head first, bleeding profusely. Then, she miscarries an unborn calf.
As the dead female orca is dropped from the boat, her mate pushes her, blood is still leaking from her mouth.
A village is shown on fire.
An orca bites a woman's leg off.
The orca jumps up and pulls men off a boat. He rips them apart underwater. A lot of blood is shown, but no tissue damage appears.
As a boat crashes into an iceberg, a man is crushed by falling ice. The ice gets bloody.
The orca thows a man into the air and slams him to death against and iceberg. He dies with his eyes open.
Profanity: There are uses of "hell" and "son of a bitch."
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Smoking on a boat
Frightening/Intense Scenes: All the violence described above, especially the female orca's miscarriage, can be extremely frightening. It is all harsh and brutal.
Story: After witnessing his mate and child's death from Nolan's hands, Orca, the killer whale, goes on a rampage in the fishermen's harbor. Under the villagers' pressure, Nolan, Rachel and an Indian sail after the great beast, who will bring them on his own turf.
Likes : JAWS with intelligence!!!!!!! For year ive wanted to watch this film but never got around to watching it's as it came out when i was born 1977 as this got allot of mixed reviews & so much hate review on it about it ripping off jaws.
Upon viewing this film for the first time yes i can say it heavily influenced from the jaws film just in a different way but from the boat scene & the horror moments, to compare the two jaws dose have the edge of suspense & horror as Orca is slightly predictable but orca make up for it in story line, instead of a shark that is just killing for the sake of killing, the killer whale is killing for a reason which give this film an edge over jaws, some may say its a rip off of jaws but i say this has a better story-line behind it than jaws not that jaws wasn't a great film because it was, but this just had that something extra.
In the beginning of the film it introduce the audience in to a tight family group of the killer whale you are actually given real fact about them which in very surprised with, but then the audience in trusted in this disturbing & quiet frighten scene which give the audience this shock factor, but unlike jaws where you routing for the people survive against a man eating shark, this film actual has you routing for the killer whale which is a clever & different way of filming a jaws like film because you actual feeling sorry for him & understand why & what happening is justified.
The acting is not bad for 1977 film, most of these actor & actress are Hollywood greatest like Richard Harris, Bo Derek & Charlotte Rampling with co star Will Sampson who you will recognize as the tribal Indian Taylor in the 1982 poltergeist & 1985 Poltergeist II: The Other Side.
Despite some of the flaws this film had this is a pretty good film, i think back in 1977 when jaws first came out i can imagine this film would have been scary to audiences back then, so ya i recommend watching this old classic film if you haven't already.
Dislikes : Some scene are overused sometime as some scene look the same cut scene which i assume was to saving money like most of the 70s & 80s film's they tend to use a cut scene over & over again in place's which didn't overly ruin the film as it kept the film rolling along at a stead pace.This really was the only flaws in the film.
Overall : Great story, Not quiet like jaws in horror but still a great film of it own,
Rating: 5 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.1 out of 10 for story / concept
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