I was not expecting to even like Frankenfish, but I did. The story is ridiculous on the whole, in the script there is a sea of corniness and eye-rolling cheesiness amid the odd sprinkle of wit, the characters are on the annoying stereotypical side and some of the effects are cheap. Despite all this, I did enjoy Frankenfish. The editing was not as choppy as I had anticipated and some of the locations are great. There is enough suspense and tense fun to make up for the ridiculousness of the story, the fish although not great in design(though I have seen far worse) are menacing and great to watch and while the lead is uncharismatic the acting is reasonably good. On the whole, not great, but I sort of liked it. 6/10 Bethany Cox

When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers (Tory Kittles) is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan (China Chow) to the location where the victim lived in a floating house and he meets his family and friends. They find that Chinese snake-heads genetically engineered that belong to a wealthy hunter are attacking and killing the locals. While the group fights to survive, the hunter Jeff (Tomas Arana) arrives with his team to hunt the predators.

"Frankenfish" is a very reasonable B-movie, with a good story, acting and special effects. Alternating action with suspense, horror and dark comedy, there are many good moments, like for example when the biologist is shot. The conclusion is very funny and this flick is a good entertainment. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Frankenfish - Criatura Assassina" ("Frankenfish - Assassin Creature")

With the title having "Franken" in it and with a black man on the cover, I was all set for a bad black horror movie on the order of "Black Frankenstein." I was wrong. The movie was quite good as far as B horrors go. Toby Kittles (Denzel Washington light) plays a medical examiner trying to figure out which critter is killing the people in the swamp or "Swamp Rats" as the movie refers to them. He is accompanied by the beautiful China Chow, who we do see in that bikini top on the cover. They talk to a community of people who live on houseboats, including a pair of nudists (nudity and one simulated oral sex scene). With the help of Elmer (best accent in the movie) they locate a large vessel that had appeared suddenly during the last hurricane. It seems the American hunters had the Chinese genetically engineer a fish that could hunt them while they hunt it. (Not much for clever, but great for testosterone.) When one person is killed by super-fish, they opt to hold up in the houseboats until morning, then go for help, but the fish have other ideas.

The acting was far better than most horror movies. The plot, well you can judge that for yourself. The fish aren't as big as seen on the cover.