You can't help but wonder if Roy Scheider was embarrassed to have had his name even associated with the word 'Jaws' by the time this clunker hit the screen. I'm surprised this thing actually took nine months to film, insofar as it looks and plays like a particularly creaky made-for-tv movie.
The first film was obviously brilliant - and the second one was also perfectly acceptable. However, the film series should never have gone beyond a third film, which itself should have been set in and around the same locations as the first two.
If they could have convinced Roy Scheider to film a brief cameo - including a death scene - it might have all been different. They then could have relied on the better known surviving cast members from the first two films - plus one or two newcomers - to carry through and finish the trilogy.
There is basically nothing wrong with the idea of Lorraine Gary picking up where Roy Scheider left off. And if she was ably supported by the likes of Murray Hamilton, Louis Gossett Jr, Lea Thompson, PH Moriarty and Michael Caine, then the trilogy might have ended up as one of the better ones.
It may not have been of the same calibre as some recent trilogies, but it would still have been perfectly watchable. Oh well...
