Film Review – Fin

Director Eli Roth has managed to create a career in the horror business, using his deep love for the genre to inspire ghastly features that explore inhumanity in different forms. Creatively, Roth hasn’t been the most inspired helmer, but he’s been determined to make his mark, returning time and again to provide disturbing images and deranged characters from the safety of fictional storytelling. With “Fin,” Roth moves over to documentary filmmaking, turning his attention to the plight of sharks, with their dwindling numbers and cruel treatment becoming a cause for the moviemaker. Taking on the barbarity of humankind, Roth comes up with his most terrifying picture in “Fin,” which sends the host around the world to get a sense of illegal fishing and deadly “finning,” finding his curiosity about the butchery involved with shark fin soup opening the doors to a grim understanding of a business that shows no mercy for a rapidly depleting population of ocean creatures. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com