The Shallows (2016)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Don't listen to the negative reviews

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I'm really sick of White Sharks (Great Whites) being depicted as human eaters and hunters. It's simply NOT the case and this film does nothing to quell the social and ignorant hysteria surrounding such majestic beings.Instead it fans the flames with another mediocre shark attack film.Great Whites are incredibly intelligent. When humans have been bitten they are usually let go once the shark realised the human isn't a seal.Humans are the most arrogant, entitled, stupid creatures on the planet. These ideas that they should be entitled to enter the oceans without ever having risk of being looked at our attached by the oceans inhabitants is clear insanity and delusion. But out they go putting up bait lines and drums to kill whatever sharks happen to swim by the coast near where humans like to gather and frolick in the ocean.It's the epitomy of stupidity, arrogance and entitlement.Every other creature on the planet knows where it's at. Humans think they own the world. Here's a fact for you- the world would survive great without humanity, yet humans cannot live without the rest of the works population and diversity of species.Shark finning is still going on in the thousands, only God knows when the shark population will become extinct.Shark week 2018 stupidly told the location of their Great White shark dives so any numbnut with a penchant to kill these beautiful creatures has their own roadmap. White Sharks, aka Great Whites, are listed as a vulnerable specie. From Australia to America, all over the world, these beautiful sharks are baited with drum lines, hunted, caught in boats long nets for finning then dumped back to drown once their fins have been removed. Humans are the cause of every problem on the planet. Every single problem. Every one. It's a sobering fact isn't it.People cry out in alarm when someone is taken by a shark or bitten by one. There are many people who ever the oceans every day. If sharks were really that interested in killing people, especially Great Whites, there would be hundreds, thousands of deaths every year for each country bordering an ocean.There's not though, is there.Films like this should never be made People should not expect to kill whatever they don't lie or think is on their way. Humans need sharks. They are an apex predator and without them things go to crud. I'm embarrassed to be human.

"The Shallows" is a surprisingly well-made and intense movie. Some plot points are very far-fetched, there is an overuse of slow motion and the ending gets quite ridiculous BUT Blake Lively is perfect in the role, the scenery is stunning and it is exquisitely filmed with great visual effects. Sound & music worked well! All in all, it is a compelling survival thriller. I didn't expect it to be this good.

Just another shark movie. A great white shark bites a young and emotionally hurt surfer's leg and she tries to get out of the water. Decent movie with some good scenes and more than needed bikini shots. The shark behaved unrealistic in most of the movie but the gull was a true star. And after all, how was this beach called?

This joined the extremely limited number of what I'd consider to be good shark movies that I've ever seen, I thought it had a great solid setup and a pretty immersive atmosphere that let you imagine a little of how scary such a situation would be. I found it overall to be a good movie because to me, for the most part it used the shark in an effective way that played up to its natural strengths as a terrifying predator of the sea, you constantly feel the threat of it lurking somewhere beneath the waves, and while we all know what a Great White looks like, when they really started showing it in all its vicious toothy glory it looked awesome, and was to me some fantastic cgi. I thought the beautiful Blake Lively gave a strong performance that very well conveyed her fear and as well as her will to survive against a very determined beast as the few options available to her gradually disappeared along with her ever-shrinking point of safety. I can see why they gave her the precious seagull to play off though, I don't think any actor could spend practically a whole movie's length standing on a rock completely alone and make it work.(James Franco? Hm..) Even Tom Hanks had Wilson! I think that in the closing scene when she's surfing again it should have revealed that she'd lost her leg instead of just having a little scar, it would have been more fitting and given a little more weight to her ordeal. There are certainly times when the shark action does start to feel noticeably Farfetched, like the jellyfish thing and when she sets it on fire with the whale oil, and especially how she gets it to impale itself on the buoy rebars...but I don't know it was a somewhat glossy thriller, it felt like it earned those moments and I think the final confrontation did call for something with a touch more oomph anyway.. Probably the biggest hole in the movie is why exactly a fairly mindless shark would bother tirelessly stalking one stranded human that it couldn't even really get to when it had a whole dead whale right there, or after it devoured those two and a half people! Sharks aren't really capable of becoming enraged or even territorial, last I checked, but it did work well for the plot, and I had fun with the flick, we already got a one hundred percent realistic shark movie that was called Open Water and it was a boring pile of crap. The most appealing thing about the move for me would have to be the visuals, all the beautiful bright open shots of the beach and the crashing blue sparkling waters were uplifting to look at and it had to be one of the most prettiest movies I've ever seen. It was cool too to have a semi-horror movie that was set in broad vivid daylight instead of the usual drabness. So while some might find it slow I was consistently engaged by this movie and I found it to be a tense and entertaining flick that I thought made great use of the shark as a classic menace and that to me made up for its flaws, and I'm glad that there are still the odd bright spots to be found in an often brutally abused horror sub-genre yet!