Netflix viewers are obsessive about this shark film, and it isn’t Jaws

There’s a lot leisure to select from on Netflix that you just’d be forgiven for being left all at sea. However sea is strictly what greater than 4 million Netflix viewers have chosen this week, catapulting a shark assault thriller into the platform’s prime 10, alongside a number of the finest Netflix films.

Jaws undoubtedly holds the crown in relation to the perfect shark films – in any case, it’s top-of-the-line films ever made – however there have been quite a few pretenders to that title through the years. A kind of is the 2022 thriller Shark Bait, which has caught the eye of subscribers to top-of-the-line streaming companies.

Between August 7 and August 13, 4.4 million individuals watched Shark Bait on Netflix, incomes it eighth place within the prime 10. The film isn’t even accessible on the service within the USA, however obtained a spot on the worldwide chart because of being within the prime 10 throughout 20 totally different international locations.

Shark Bait follows a bunch of younger individuals who steal a pair of jetskis to allow them to race them out of sea. Their harmful hijinks result in a severe crash, which leaves them injured and within the water as sharks start to circle.

It’s honest to say that movie critics weren’t wowed by Shark Bait on its preliminary launch, with the film sat at only a 30% approval ranking on overview aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Damningly, The Guardian wrote that “there’s extra charisma within the shark’s chilly useless eye than in the complete forged”. Ouch.

But it surely’s price trying out Shark Bait your self if it’s on Netflix in your nation. For our US readers, Shark Bait is on Tubi or Kanopy and, in the event you’re within the UK, it’s accessible to stream through Sky Cinema and NOW. So there are many choices.

Unsurprisingly, one in all Netflix’s largest new films topped the chart for this week, with 33 million individuals watching Gal Gadot‘s spy journey Coronary heart of Stone.

If you happen to can’t get sufficient of shark-based mayhem, discover out in regards to the Jaws scene so gory Steven Spielberg didn’t embrace it and find out how the perfect Jaws scene was written over the telephone. Or for the latest addition to the canon, learn our Meg 2 overview.

For extra suggestions, discover out about all the pieces new on Netflix and look forward to the likes of the Stranger Issues season 5 launch date and the Pink Discover 2 launch date.