Oliver Stone comes out swinging for Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

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Oliver Stone has rewatched all four Jaws films – but it’s 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge that he’s keen to defend.


There aren’t too many people willing to stand up and take one for the team where 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge is concerned, but you can now count multiple Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone among them.

To this point, the most talked-about part of the fourth and thus-far final Jaws movie is Michael Caine’s oft-told story. It’s the one where he revealed that he’d never seen the film itself, but he had very much seen and enjoyed the house that it paid for.

Oliver Stone has been active on his Facebook page of late, with pages of thoughts on assorted movies. And he’s told how over the summer, he treated himself to a viewing of all four Jaws films. “In my shark fever, I particularly enjoyed the last Jaws film – The Revenge”, he wrote.

As he tells it, this is the film where the child of the original shark decides – look, we didn’t write the movie – to track down the son of Martin Brody from the original Jaws. Stone admits that the idea is “defying logic”.

But still: there’s something to be said for a film that’s just bizarrely mad, and finding things to enjoy in it, and Oliver Stone seems to agree. “What Michael Caine is doing in the film as a cheery Brit boat captain certainly has no relevance to the plot except that he got paid well”, notes Stone, before giving away a few plot details that we wouldn’t want to share for fear of spoiling the movie.

The spoiler-light version of Stone’s reading is that he believes “the ending is staggeringly stupid”, but then he reflects that “I think the older I get, the more I accept stupidity”.

He rounds off his recommendation of Jaws: The Revenge but noting it “in any case, put to rest the Jaws saga – that is, until The Meg (2018) was discovered.”

Turns out Oliver Stone might just be a closet Jason Statham fan.

“Haha — I love movies”, he signs off. We’re looking forward to his views on 1993’s Super Mario Bros next.

Jaws: The Revenge is now available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray.

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