review for Dark Waters on AllMovie

Director Phillip J. Roth must have wanted to be a scuba diver when he was a kid. Or else he has a lucrative deal with the company that creates special effects of underwater critters: Dark Waters comes on the slippery heels of his previous release, Deep Shock, which was about gigantic electric eels. Like that one, Dark Waters presents the man-eating fish as an obstacle to evil science, and as the finale, the hero and heroine must defeat them in order to reach the ocean's surface. And like the previous title, there's quite a bit of quasi-military scientific mumbo jumbo that passes for dialogue exchanged on sets that look like the bridges of every other underwater movie you've ever seen. The sharks don't get much screen time, but when they do emerge it's pretty funny. The redeeming feature in both is lovely Simmone Jade Mackinnon as a woman of action who shows up the leading men. Other than her, Dark Waters is all wet.