Factual error: At the end when the shark is attacking the boat and the electronic device is used you can hear the shark roar. Sharks cannot produce this sound since they have no vocal cords.
Jaws 4 (1987)
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Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Michael Caine, Mario Van Peebles, Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest
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Jaws 4 OR Jaws The Revenge was the last of the Jaws series and, well, not a moment too soon. Lorraine Gary comes back to play Chief Brody's wife, Ellen, who hates sharks and the sea as much as her late husband did. After her youngest son, now chief of police, gets taken by a shark, the family rallies to confront this roaring menace. Michael Caine, Mario Van Peebles and others lend a weak hand, but no-one can deliver Jaws 4 from the inky depths. Pure cheese, some very bad. What a mess-watch Deep Blue Sea instead. 3 generous stars.
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Hoagie Newcombe: I have an irresistible urge to kiss you, Ellen Brody.
Ellen Brody: Why?
Hoagie Newcombe: Because... It would not occur to you why.
Trivia: There are two different endings to this movie. In the first one (released on video and DVD in the US), the shark (inexplicably) explodes after being rammed by the boat and sinks to the bottom in a reuse of footage from "Jaws." When the camera cuts back to the survivors floating in the water, we see that Mario Van Peebles, though badly wounded, is alive after all. In the second ending (which can be seen on American Movie Classics in the US), Mario Van Peebles does not survive his fall off of the boat; when he falls, he lands in the shark's mouth and is killed. Also, when the boat rams into the shark, it does not explode but is more "realistically" impaled, blood pouring from its mouth as it dies. After the survivors are knocked off the boat, there is a shot of ship and shark sinking to the bottom, prow of the ship stuck in the side of the shark.
Answer: We never see Jake "eaten", he is merely shown being dragged underwater by the shark. Off screen, the shark simply let go of Jake and didn't kill him. In a movie full of factual errors and plot holes, this bit is actually somewhat realistic. Sharks typically do not eat humans, but will maul people on occasion and let go, presumably because they don't like the taste. How Jake survives underwater for minutes on end is not addressed. Originally, Jake was meant to be killed by the shark but for whatever reason, it was decided that Jake should survive and make a surprise appearance after the shark has been killed.
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