Ten years had passed since the release of Bear and Nash Edgerton felt it was time to dust off his alter ego Jack again and show us how his character was getting older, but still hadn't matured or learned his lesson. In Shark, undoubtedly the most ambitious installment of the trilogy, we find Jack after a few years having survived the gunshot wound. To our surprise, he seems to have finally met his match in Sophie, played by Rose Byrne, an old friend of Edgerton's with whom they had already made a short film 20 years earlier.
In Shark, Rose Byrne steals the show, her character is someone who really understands Jack's characteristically wicked sense of humor and not only lets herself go, but matches his energy like kindred spirits. The editing is very fluid in this regard, as we are shown the couple's dynamic perfectly. Unlike the previous 2 parts, the tone of Shark, at least for the most part, is written as a romantic comedy, where a smitten Jack puts his macabre history of accidental ex-girlfriends behind him and finally bonds in a hilarious wedding scene, With both protagonists in the middle of their honeymoon, a somewhat corseted activity that clashes with Jack's personality, he find a way to turn the itinerary upside down. He will count on the veiled and complicit approval of Sophie who knows that Jack can't let him be. A situation that, as expected by the title and by the constant idea of karma in the trilogy, will lead to a domino of fatalities.
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