Where the flak come from, I don't know, as this is a rather effective killer animal movie. It's one of the better Jaws ripoffs anyway. The animatronic whale is even more convincing than Brucie the shark... It's a pretty harsh movie, even if it goes a little over-the-top. This is one fish you don't want to mess with. You know you done messed up when a killer whale burns down a village trying to get to you...

A fun, ridiculous, very very subpar Jaws ripoff. There are about 8 absolutely hysterical closeups on the whale's eye looking very menacingly at Richard Harris. So great. I am impressed with their whale footage. With the exception of the hilarious close ups on a the whale out of the water staring at boats like he's the angry chicken from Family Guy, it was very hard to tell what was the rubber whale and what was real footage. How did they do the shots of a whale angrily running into boats?

Despite a number of weaknesses and shortcomings, I didn't have a bad time with the animal horror film "Orca." Obviously, producer Dino De Laurentiis had seen "Jaws" and wanted to raise the stakes. Accordingly, in one of the first scenes, an orca kills a shark. But of course, "Orca" doesn't even come close to Steven Spielberg's classic. There are far too many confusing cuts, and the story and dialogue can be extremely hokey at times. But at least Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling are competent actors, and some of the effects and the score are also decent. With a little more polish, "Orca" could have been an excellent film, but even as it is, I was able to get something out of it.

7/10 Good one from my Childhood and this movie is definitely it's own thing away from Jaws. Nolan was a horrible annoying insufferable bastard all the way through through the movie, a complete and utter Dick and Annie was so annoying all the way through too as well, she was no better than that twat. Everyone else in this movie definitely picked up the slack from them two and apart from Annie and Nolan Everyone else put in a solid enough performance. I will say the shot footage and the editing was absolutely amazing and breathtaking especially for the time, I was actually blown away how Great it actually was and the Whale it's self was Amazing so life like and looking so real, that put any cgi garbage to shame even by today's standards, (especially by today's Standards). The theme tune is so haunting and fits the movie perfectly, I loved it. The Special effects were Great and the story was really well thoughtout to give us something different than what Jaws was Knocking out at the time. (I don't ever remember Rooting for the Shark in a Jaws movie or ever having genuine concern for the Sharks wellbeing), but i sure did feel Orca's pain throughout this movie, and I was Rooting for him the entire time. All in all a good movie as part of my Nostalgia list of days gone by, one I have fond memories of, plus how can you go wrong with the Stunningly Gorgeous Beautiful "Bo Derek" (Holy-smokes now that takes me back to my OG Tarzan days). After all these decades passed I really enjoyed the rewatch of Orca, The Killer Whale (they don't make em like they uste too).

An attempt to build on the success of Jaws.