"One thing I know is good is Alexander Yellen's cinematography. In part, this film is trying to be -- again, I don't know whether seriously or ironically -- an ecological moral story about nature getting back at man for messing with everything. This theme has such little prominence in the plot that it is hardly worth mentioning, but it does manifest itself well visually. Occasionally we are given nature shots that seem to radiate color, and they are so beautiful that they convey an ecological message without needing a plot to support them. One of my favorites is a gold-washed sunrise with a pitch-black silhouette of the main character standing on the shore. There are some moments here and there that will pull you away from an appreciation of the film's visuals, most notably the several scenes that utilize computer animation from the eighties, but when the special effects guys step aside and let the cameraman do his work, the result is so excellent one wonders how this cinematographer wound up in a film called Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus."
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