Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, along came this Jaws rip-off, no worse and perhaps a mite better than most of the myriad imitators.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 10, 2025

Overall, Orca is a dissatisfying cheap knockoff of a film. The premise that promises horror and bloodshed with thrills to boot ultimately never delivers.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 17, 2024

This is a ham-fisted and ironic delight.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 9, 2022

100% unadulterated recycled junk.

| May 23, 2022

Soon the plot becomes utterly preposterous, however, even by today's loose standards.

| Nov 11, 2021

The orca is apparently so smart that Nolan devises a plan that involves looking the creature in the eye, apologizing, and asking for forgiveness.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Aug 30, 2020

Orca is another Dino De Laurentiis presentation and if this whale had hair on it and cost as much, it could be just as big a bomb as King Kong. As it is, it's merely chicken of the sea.

| Oct 22, 2019

It is a shame that Michael Anderson didn't go the fantasy route from the beginning. At least he would have achieved a rare or unusual film. But instead, he didn't achieve anything. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 26, 2019

The moviemakers have thumbed heavily through the literature of the sea in their search for dramatic cliches.

| Mar 26, 2019

Orca is essentially a rehash of an earlier De Laurentiis hit, Death Wish, with the killer whale in Charles Bronson role.

| Mar 26, 2019

The glamorous presence of Charlotte Rampling and Bo Derek, plus some remarkable underwater photography, fail to make up for the daft narrative.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2019

A cheap and tacky attempt by producer Dino De Laurentiis to cash on the phenomenon of Jaws.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2019

And so, encouraged by someone in the film company once having read a comic-strip version of Melville, Orca slides inexorably down to a sea of slosh where Moby Dick and other symbolic mammals lurk.

| Mar 26, 2019

Those expecting real quality had better look elsewhere, but fans of enjoyably bad movies will find plenty to relish, not least lady-in-peril Bo Derek.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2019

Dino De Laurentiis' attempt to cash in on the popularity of Jaws is a total failure.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2019

An incoherent blend of Moby-Dick, King Kong, and Jaws, hindered by what appears to be extensive reediting.

| Mar 26, 2019

The whale has the best scenes and manages to capture the audience's sympathy. Certainly there can be none for the makers of this soggy saga.

| Mar 26, 2019

[Orca] is not an easy film to sit through. Not only because of the banal dialogue, the overdrawn performances or the familiar theme... The real reason is that Orca contains a few sequences so intense in suffering and horror as to be nearly unbearable.

| Mar 26, 2019

Ugh.

| Mar 26, 2019

Overall, the film is far-fetched enough to make animal behaviourists weep, making Finding Dory look like a documentary on sea life.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 18, 2018