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Orca: The Killer Whale
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Orca: The Killer Whale

1977
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 32m
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Avg Percentile 31.63% from 295 total ratings

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Rated 02 Dec 2012
50
26th
A ridiculous Irish fisherman ignores the stern warnings from Charlotte Rampling about messing with a family of killer whales, subsequently incurs their wrath, and then engages the alpha male in hand-to-fin combat. This whale is so pissed, it somehow blows up a whole fucking town and literally calls the fisherman out to fight it. That everyone takes this sheer lunacy deadly serious is most of the fun. Novelty appearances by Bo Derek and Robert Carradine as whalebait.
Rated 07 Sep 2014
15
9th
Nuke the Whales
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
70th
Very underrated. Sure it's a take off from Jaws two years earlier, but it's good in it's own right, worth a rental atleast.
Rated 17 Dec 2013
70
52nd
Pretty ludicrous, but it's strangely enjoyable. It's far from great but still underrated.
Rated 19 Feb 2020
3
9th
Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I could've booked Ennio Morricone for my bar-mitzvah.
Rated 11 Sep 2021
40
18th
I enjoyed this goofy film. This dares to ask the question "what if Orcas were really smart and also hungry for revenge?"
Rated 30 Nov 2022
40
11th
Rolling Thunder with a whale. The inciting incident at thr start is so hilariously over the top cruel and violent you don't give a shit what happens to Richard Harris. Richard Harris fist fighting a whale. Directors cut ending where The whale fucks Richard Harris who gets filled like a water balloon and pops and I'll 3 star this next time
Rated 04 Aug 2007
15
17th
It isn't completely inept; Harris and Rampling are always worth watching, and the final, frozen scenes are momentarily arresting, but as Giant Fish movies go this one is mostly a flounder.
Rated 11 Aug 2009
50
24th
This movie was so much better when I was like 10. Now, it's kind of hilarious at times.
Rated 08 Oct 2009
20
4th
Killer Whale miscarriage and death by tail are one of the few moments that provide laughs, but don't try watching this one without some good friends who also like to watch bad movies for fun.
Rated 01 Sep 2012
46
19th
No Richard Harrises were harmed in making this movie. Too bad.
Rated 31 Jan 2013
37
11th
An obvious "Jaws" ripoff, sure, but one of the better ones - at least for the first half or so. And the visual effects really are very well done for their time. But when it starts asking you to believe not only that orcas are highly intelligent, but also have advanced knowledge of architecture and mechanics, it starts dragging its tail.
Rated 10 Aug 2015
67
23rd
Some big pluses - Harris and Rampling are great, the town is well sketched with lots of life, and the effects are crazy good - but it's ultimately doomed by its inability to marry smart filmmaking with stupid storytelling.
Rated 28 Jun 2019
35
34th
Man, you gotta see this movie! It's got a whale miscarriage and everything!
Rated 03 Dec 2022
74
36th
It's a mistake to make the whale so sympathetic & the protagonist a jerk, but it's certainly interesting. There are also several bad directing choices (like always showing us the whale is about to attack or having it taunt w/ its wagging tail) & there's never any good reason given why Rampling & the Indian decide to tag along on a doomed trip, but the guilt & supernatural vengeance theme are compelling, as is the 1 scene w/ Harris on a beach at night wondering where his punishment will come.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
35
13th
Watchable.
Rated 29 Apr 2009
85
34th
Preposterous but well-presented aquatic revenge drama, elevated above mediocrity by some good performances and an incredible music score.
Rated 08 Oct 2009
58
15th
Ugh. How Harris and Rampling got roped into this, I don't know. A bad ripoff of Jaws, which predates Jaws: The Revenge in the "Vengeful Sealife Seeks Payback" subgenre. Stupid whale got what it had coming to it in Jaws 2.
Rated 05 Mar 2010
58
14th
I watched this movie very often and fiercely when I was much much younger, feeling for the whale and hating the protagonist. Today I see that the movie cannot hold up in terms of plot and character development. It's one-dimensional and only Richard Harris' performance is convincing to some degree.
Rated 26 Jun 2010
57
46th
After the _King Kong_ remake, this Dino De Laurentiis-financed _Jaws_ copy didn't look too promising but really isn't all *that* bad. With equal helpings of the touching and the absurd, this features Rampling as a chi-chi marine biologist sporting an endless wardrobe right out of "Vogue", and Derek in her first important film role as a girl whose leg is bitten off by Orca.
Rated 07 Sep 2010
1
5th
Odeio esse.
Rated 21 Sep 2010
10
5th
Befri Willy - nu
Rated 15 Aug 2011
50
17th
Guilty pleasure nostalgia...
Rated 22 Oct 2011
20
41st
"A bald rehash of Jaws, only with the Moby Dick elements played up even further." - Eric Henderson
Rated 23 Jun 2012
45
11th
44.500
Rated 03 Jan 2016
20
13th
When you call yourself Orca: The Killer Whale and are clearly a Jaws ripoff you should at least have the decency to be a pacy exploitation flick, this is interminably boring
Rated 30 Jun 2019
61
30th
Cool, silly idea. Could've been much more exciting in someone else's hands than Michael Anderson's, whose direction makes characters seem to moronic for my taste, especially when it comes to them trying to escape danger. And who, quite frankly, sucks at action. Having Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling and Ennio Morricone on board surely helped, though. Even with this dumb kind of an ending.
Rated 14 Sep 2022
94
74th
Always loved this one, not sure quite why, it's pretty haunting. Fisherman accidently kills a killer whale's wife and child and the whale stalks him and his crew.
Rated 05 Aug 2023
35
15th
"Orca" flips the script of the classic "Moby Dick," casting the whale as the relentless hunter and the fisherman as the pursued, despite the bizarre twist where the fisherman inexplicably seeks the whale's vengeance, leading to unfortunate fatalities among his crew. The film maintains a degree of watch ability, primarily due to the adept performances from the cast, which render some otherwise absurd scenes engaging.

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