Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.
Sharknado 5 is deep into a franchise that long ago exhausted its novelty. The absurdist premise of shark-filled tornadoes crossing the globe is essentially a retread of the previous four films, offering diminishing returns on its self-aware campiness. The plot is tissue-thin even by franchise standards, the acting is knowingly hammy with celebrity cameos substituting for genuine craft, and the cinematography is functional TV-movie fare at best. The ending attempts shock value but lands with little impact given audience fatigue with the series. By this fifth installment, the spoof formula feels genuinely formulaic rather than inventive.