An inspector for an oil company (Josh Lucas), brings his family with him on a work trip to a small village in Mexico. The village is not doing well, and the locals are not particularly friendly. Understandable once he gets to the oil rig and finds it, a) almost abandoned, b) failing apart and leaking like crazy, and c) terrorized by an enormous shark the locals believe was summoned by an Aztec god as punishment for what humans have done his planet.
Through a series of unpleasant events involving a guy not keeping his hands off the teenage daughter - fortunately the mom cracks the guy over the head with a beer bottle immediately when he doesn't respond to her saying not to touch her - the family ends up on the oil rig, too.
So it turns into a race to MacGuyver a way off the rig before the shark sinks it and they all get eaten. There's not much tension, however. There's a couple of scenes where people are in the water for one reason or another and the shark takes a run at them. But there's still plenty of time for Lucas' character to be angry about the implication this is some divine punishment, and for his wife to figure out he's actually guilty, and for one of the local workers who got stuck on the rig to alternate between insulting Lucas and drinking tequila with him.
Admittedly, the bit where Lucas indignantly insists his shirt is burgundy, not red after being chewed out, is pretty funny. The movie has a few good lines here and there, like the daughter assessing that this is not the town where her dad realized he loved her mother, so much as it's where he got her pregnant, to matching outraged cries from the parents. But when it came to good stuff, pickings were pretty slim on the ground for this one.
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