Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Seems every comment is obsessed with comparing this film to another film of the era, well I'm not going to say it's name as it's been said too much already.Certainly you'd have to say that if not for the success of that other film, studios wouldn't have been motivated to green light this film, but that's where the relationship ends.Orca is definitely not a rip-off of that film, the story line, tone, music...all completely different. I like that other film as well, but there is simply no comparing them, and the people who brush by this film cuz they think it's just a silly B-Movie are really missing out.Sure, this film, like any, has some flaws, I think at times the actions of the humans can range from contradictory, to confusing, to downright "OK, why on Earth are you doing what you're doing right now?" but these things don't ruin the overall feel of the film.This film is very emotional, it goes to some tough places and has some very thought provoking questions, Richard Harris does a great job playing a man tortured by guilt and struggling to know what is the right thing to do. The score in this is amazing and even after all these years most of the visuals are still beautiful to look at, I definitely recommend people give this a chance.

Surprisingly good "killer mammal over the open sea" flick which happened to follow only two years after a certain film directed by Steven Spielberg about a predatory killer Great White. That bit of misfortune plagues what is otherwise a rather nifty "nature goes a killin'" horror flick. Good casting is especially in this film's favor. Richard Harris is really a very valuable anchor for the film (pun intended) while Charlotte Rampling was another bit of solid casting that helps to bring some real acting chops to what can viewed as "just another one of those Jaws rip-offs". Ultimately this is about revenge on the mind of a male killer whale after Harris's captain accidentally kills its pregnant female mate trying to capture it with a harpoon. Knicking the fin of the male, this "mark of identification" lets the viewer know (when the whale doesn't leap from the water to recognize its presence to those he wants to see his handiwork (like causing boats to sink after attacking them or causing a nearby fishing village factory to go kaboom) when the whale is hanging around. The fetus spilling from the rope-caught female with large cuts on its torso onto Harris' deck is horrifying (as it should be), reminding of him of his loss of wife and child to a drunk driver.Rampling is a marine scientist with extensive knowledge of whales. She tries to reason with Harris over confronting the killer whale, soon realizing that fisherman and whale are fated to meet in a violent conclusion. This near a polar region with ice bergs. Will Sampson arrives in the film a little later to try and convince Harris that if he doesn't "do battle" with the whale that the fishing village would turn on him due to its detriment to their livelihood. The whale's antics include snatching Rampling's assistant (Robert Carradine; Revenge of the Nerds), and two of Harris' fishermen (Keenan Wynn, basically wasted but proving how active he was even as he was aging, and Peter Hooten) while on the water. A rather startling but effective attack on a rental home overlooking the sea has the whale biting off Bo Derek's casted leg in perhaps its most memorable scene. Speaking of Bo, she isn't used much (I just assumed the filmmakers would try to get her beautiful looks in as much as possible), although her fate is quite a shocker. Harris really lifts this film with a performance that Orca needs in order to be even in the conversation with Jaws. His teetering on the edge, influenced greatly by Rampling's appeals for the whale, as the two attempt futilely to avoid a fight on the open sea, shows that he isn't just some thoughtless, honorless, heartless sociopath. And a good scene has Harris contemplating to Rampling about why he wanted to capture the male whale and how doing so has cost him so much. Morricone's score also adds dramatic weight and power to the film. The opening with the male and female whales (soon to be parted and destroyed by Harris' carelessness) rising from the water as the sun peeks from clouds is a jaw-dropper. Along with Pirhana, I think Orca is one of the best of the emerging killer fish/mammal water flicks to show up after Jaws. There have been so many rotten apples that came out of the aftermath of Jaws, but I think Orca is one of the few decent efforts of the swarm. The killer whale dismantling the shark at the beginning, saving Carradine (only later to kill him; irony at its darkest) in the process, an amusing message that speaks loud and clear regarding the attempt to pound the chest towards Jaws. The animatronic whales are incredible in their lifelike-ness.

This is one of the those movies I've only watched once, and I was a little kid when I saw it on TV with my parents. In this movie, a killer whale seeks revenge against Captain Nolan (Richard Harris) after witnessing his mate and child's death, going on a rampage in the fishermen's harbor.I don't remember much from this movie, except for the fact that there were a lot of havoc caused by the whale and the human characters attempting to catch the beast from his rampage. This made the movie suspenseful and, while I was not a horror movie fan back then, I was pretty engaged by what I was watching.I was able to sense the whale's fierceness, yet tragic life throughout the story. Unlike many viewers, I didn't see this as a Jaws rip-off movie, but a dramatic and somewhat emotional movie involving a killer whale's heartfelt clash with humans. ***spoiler ahead*** At the end, as I watched the whale descend in the ocean, I remembered feeling a little melancholic by the entire movie. ***spoiler ends***Not better than most of the Jaws movies, but it's OK to watch at least once.Grade C+

Although warned about the dangers of hunting a killer whale a fisherman by the name of "Captain Nolan" (Richard Harris) disregards the warning and sets off with a small crew to capture one alive. Unfortunately, things don't turn out as planned and he ends up accidentally killing a pregnant female killer whale and its unborn offspring as well. Having witnessed their deaths, the male killer whale now wants vengeance. So he follows the boat back to its port and attempts to create enough havoc offshore to force Captain Nolan to come back to sea and settle the score once and for all. Now, while I certainly have no doubt that killer whales are quite intelligent, I have to admit that this particular movie went more than a bit overboard with this entire scenario. To that end, I thought that the talents of Charlotte Rampling (as "Rachel Bedford"), Bo Derek ("Annie") and the aforementioned Richard Harris were completely wasted by this ridiculous plot. I have rated the film accordingly.