The Shallows (2016)

People are voting emotionally.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Absolutely the worst movie.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I wanted to like this movie, but it's just so stupid I can't.I love the beautiful bay and the long shots showing how pretty it is. But problem 1: where are the waves? There aren't any! It's clear that the actual surfing shots were filmed elsewhere. Come on... you don't surf on a beach with no waves. Sigh.Other problems: 2. A shark that size bites you, and all you have is a tiny nick in your leg? 3. There's a juicy fat whale carcass right there, but the shark is only interested in bony human beings? 4. That whale carcass appeared out of nowhere? She's been surfing there all day, and suddenly turns her head and it's magically 60 feet away? 5. Why would you try to eat a crab after just a few hours? Just nonsensical. 6. The CGI dolphins were quite bad. But not as bad as the fake wound on her leg. I've seen 1980 horror movies with better blood... and they had a $500 budget. 7. The water is clearly shallow, as you can see in the aerial shots. Yet at the end when she sinks to the bottom, it's suddenly 60+ feet deep?! 8. Holding on to that chain would've ruptured her eardrums in seconds because she wasn't equalizing. 9. That shark is dumb enough to swim full force into the bottom of the ocean? 10. Why is there a buoy there, of all places? 11. Am I supposed to believe a beach this nice is right next to Tijuana, within walking distance of drunks, yet there's nobody there, no garbage, nothing? 12. Something tells me you wouldn't have a 4G connection on that beach to stream video on your phone.Sigh. It's a shot, and it's a miss! Wasted opportunity. Watch a re-run of Jaws instead.

This movie is very very very boring and freaking weird! Like in this movie the shark really has mind to targeting just one person for days. The only reason you stay watching this movie is just because Blake Lively looked so hot there nothing's more.

THE SHALLOWS is yet another survival flick in which a young, bikini-clad woman is menaced by an impossibly menacing killer shark. This one was shot on the glorious Queensland coast in Australia, and features Blake Lively (doing what her husband Ryan Reynolds did in BURIED) as a woman attacked and stranded by an improbably hungry shark. The film takes a minimalist approach but fails to entertain on the same level as similar mini-classics such as THE REEF and ROGUE, although it's still an enjoyable watch. The cinematography is very nice indeed, and the shark itself, although barely seen, utilises some effective CGI to create the menace. I was less impressed with the lead character, although her survivalist skills and instincts are fun, and I suppose that's what stopped me from being totally immersed in the experience as I was hoping to be. Still, this is a cut above all of the shark movies put out by The Asylum and SyFy Channel.

I do not agree with the negative reviews of this film. Yes, you can debate the technical aspects of high and low tide together with ocean currents and depths and shark behaviour all day but this is a movie and not a science documentary. I hadn't heard of this film and so I was not sure what to expect. I was however hooked from the very beginning and found it very enjoyable. There have been films that are similar to the classic 'Jaws" over the years but this film brought back memories of watching Jaws as a child. The camerawork, pace and characters are superb and I found myself constantly trying to work out the characters next move. As I say, it is easy to pick faults in the technical aspects of a film and it might not be to everyone's taste but I very much enjoyed watching this and would certainly recommend it.