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Three years after those infamous shark attacks, another great white swims into police chief Roy Scheider's resort town to cause havoc in this shameless sequel. Director Jeannot Szwarc tries to ape Steven Spielberg's imaginative style and visceral terror, but any suspense he attempts to build comes unglued because it floats in all-too-familiar waters. You just know how everyone is going to react — from the stars to the director, and even the mechanical shark! Still, despite mayor Murray Hamilton not learning any lessons from previous events, stalwart Scheider is in full control of this blasé follow-up that lacks the bite of the classic original.

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