The Shallows (2016) User Reviews

Nifty, well-crafted shark thriller boasting a strong lead performance by Blake Lively.

[lnvicta · 6/10 · 4 July 2016]

The Shallows knows exactly what it is, and that's the best praise I can give it. It's barely 90 minutes long, has a small cast, and only one location. Its only purpose is to give you a thrill-ride during that time; an adrenaline rush based on an ubiquitous fear among humans: being stranded in the ocean with a shark. However as the title suggests, this doesn't take place in the middle of the ocean. This woman is stranded only a couple hundred yards from the shore, close enough to potentially shout for help. What The Shallows does so well is establish this sense of isolation and hopelessness for our main character, and her situation of being so close yet so far from safety.

Blake Lively is great in this role. It's mostly a reactionary role - not much dialogue aside from some early establishing conversations to develop her character. For the majority of the film Lively is terrified and fighting for survival against a deadly shark. This thing is huge, like the Jaws' shark's father huge. And it's interesting to see how she follows its patterns and observes its behavior, allowing her to act accordingly without being trapped. There are some far-fetched scenes, sure, but Jaws had them as well and it's hailed as a classic. Now I'm not saying The Shallows is as good a movie as Jaws, because it certainly isn't. But again, the movie knows what it is, and as a short shark thriller appealing solely to our primal fear, it gets the job done and then some.

Now, it has its faults. The electronic music during the surfing scenes was immediately off-putting, and there are some slo-mo shots that definitely did not deserve to be in slo-mo. But the directing as a whole is well done - gorgeous sweeping shots of the open ocean, the slow build up before the initial attack, showing the shark only when it's most effective. The writing is clever and practical, relatable to the point that you feel for this character's predicament, and the acting as I said is top notch. The Shallows doesn't break any new ground, but it does exactly what it sets out to do - give the audience yet another reason to avoid the beach.

A solid B-movie

[moviewizguy · 7/10 · 15 September 2016]

People often underestimate or under-appreciate the ability to produce a genuinely good B-movie. There's Renny Harlin on one end of the spectrum, making crap like The Legend of Hercules, 12 Rounds, and The Covenant. But then you have someone like Jaume Collet-Serra, who knows a thing or two about framing a scene, getting good performances from his actors, and above all, making an entertaining movie.

The Shallows could have been an otherwise conventional and forgettable thriller without Collet-Serra's strong and stylish direction. For example, the scene when Blake Lively's character first gets attacked by the shark is beautifully composed - in one unbroken take, no less - and legitimately nightmarish, with the red blood slowly overtaking the blue screen. It also doesn't hurt that Lively successfully carries the entire film on her shoulders, giving what is arguably the best performance in her career to date. There's a quiet fierceness and admirability to her character that makes it easy to root for her survival.

Overall, there's a lot to like about The Shallows. It's gorgeously shot, suspenseful, emotionally gratifying, and entirely successful on what it sets out to be - a solid B-movie, and it takes skill to pull that off. Sure, it doesn't match the heights of either Gravity or The Martian, but then again, its budget is a mere fraction of what those films cost.

Open Jaws

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 17 April 2017]

Blake Lively plays Nancy, a medical student taking time off from her studies and plans to go to a secluded beach in Mexico with a pal for some surfing. Let down by her friend she heads alone hoping for a period of self reflection as this was the beach her now deceased mother once visited when she was young.

While she is surfing alone she is attacked by a large shark. Injured, bleeding she is stranded on a rock. She looks for help but no one is about, her medical skills are used to patch herself up the best she can and she realises that she is only safe on the rock as it is low tide. As the tide rises, she needs to get to safety, but the shark is circling round. Nancy needs to somehow outwit the shark.

This is really a low budget B movie. The CGI is ordinary and the story is preposterous. Nancy is in a remote location but she gets excellent wifi and a mobile phone signal.

The shark is of course demented, hell bent in gobbling up Nancy when their are other food sources about (maybe he saw her performance in Savages!)

Film adds nothing new to the shark genre

[tonypeacock-1 · 6/10 · 11 May 2023]

Entertaining 'shark' movie that adds a modern twist to the Jaws films of the 1970s and 80s. The location is supposed to be some surfers paradise beach in Mexico (in reality filmed in Australia) where a lone surfer Nancy (Blake Lively) ends up stranded a mere 200m from the safety of the beach by an angry Carcharadon carcharias (Great White Shark).

Nancy heavily losing blood from a deep leg wound ends up finding solace on a rock. To add to the screenplay she is befriended by a seagull she names Steven. Do you get the joke Steven Seagull? The shark effects are all cleverly added by CGI which of course Steven Spielberg didn't have available at the time of shooting Jaws in 1975. I suppose there is little manoeuvre for the screenplay. Don't get me wrong an entertaining watch but just highlights for me how good Jaws was.

A film that fulfills its role.

[miguelneto-74936 · 6/10 · 28 November 2016]

The Shallows is a cool and helpful film, it is also a movie that has many risks of being boring, since much of the film is set on an isolated rock in the sea, and the main one has to survive, not to be killed by A shark, the cast is good, I was surprised Blake Lively's performance, she proved to be a good actress, obviously not a memorable performance, but she did well, the rest of the cast does not compromise, the visual effects are good, the Visual of the shark is OK, the rhythm starts well, but loses a little strength in the progress, the soundtrack combines with the film, the film has tense moments, the script has some problems, and the film unfortunately loses its force in the third act , Plus The Shallows is recommended, even more who likes movies of that same style. Note 6.8

Blake Lively carries this film

[valleyjohn · 6/10 · 19 September 2016]

Steven Spielberg has a lot to answer for. Ever since he made Jaws in 1975 there have been countless attempts on the big screen to emulate that film and all have failed. Some have been excruciatingly bad but thankfully The Shallows isn't one of those. This is the story of Nancy who travels to a secluded beach to surf . While in the water , she is hunted by a great white shark and finds herself stranded on a rock with the tide going out . Wounded and with time running out she battles to get away from the shark. Probably the best thing about this film is performance of Blake Lively. She definitely carries this film. The action is pretty good although totally predictable and it looks great up until the use of CGI underwater when it starts to look like a scene from a Sharks Tale. At a pleasant running time of 84 minutes , The Shallows is good bit of escapism but like every other shark film , it's no Jaws.

Lonely and Deadly

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 12 January 2017]

The movie is very particular in setting up perimeters and rules. And making it as believable as possible, that in a modern time like this, someone would not be able to call for help (apart from the usual "no service" kind of cheat other movies do when it comes to Cell Phones). And if you buy into it, it works.

There's also the question why Livelys character goes there in the first place. Well even that is explained, so there is no doubt about motive too. What never is explained though, is not where the Shark came from or why it got there, but how it's possible that it's so bloodthirsty! We're talking Jason Vorhees or any other Slasher movie kind of mad. Maybe even more mad than that.

And while you could easily go, well it's a movie, it kind of breaks it's own rules there. Because everything seems logical (explaining mentioned), even the character and her ability to deal with (graphic) wounds ... but not the shark, who is really a monster if you come to think of it. But if you don't care about internal logic, like the view (no pun intended) and the thrill of it, you will have a good (scary) time watching this!

For the most part, riveting

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 8/10 · 23 June 2016]

I have a couple of issues with this film (occasionally too much CGI, and a weird ending) but for the majority of its brief, 86-minutes-long run, this is a riveting film, exquisitely filmed in the Gold Coast of Australia, about a survivor of a shark attack clinging to life, figuratively and literally, on the side of a rock 200 feet from shore, with the shark still circling the waters.

Normally watered down PG13-rating gives way to some surprisingly grisly bursts of gore, as she tries to suture her wounds with makeshift surgical tools, and a couple of brutal attack scenes.

The film makes the most of a small cast, and Blake Lively carries the film almost entirely herself, spending at least two thirds of the film completely isolated. Well, she's not completely alone, she also has Steven "Sully" Seagull, as himself.

Technically Difficult to Make, Cartoonish Conclusion

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 27 December 2018]

After losing her mother, the medical student Nancy (Blake Lively) dumps the medical school in Galveston and travels to Mexico, hitchhiking to a hidden beach that her mother loved when was young. She brings a backpack and a surf board to surf and she meets two surfers that warn about the low and high tides schedule. They leave the sea, but Nancy decides to stay a little more. When she sees a dead whale floating on the water, she swims close to the animal and is surprised by a white shark. She is bitten on the leg and uses her medical knowledge to survive on a rock. But the high tide is coming and she is under siege of the ferocious shark.

"The Shallows" is a reasonable dramatic thriller with ups and downs. It is certainly a film difficult to be made in an environment where everything is under movement and it might be difficult to synchronize the vessel, crane, cast and animals in such environment. Blake Lively might convince as a surfer provided she let only the stunts swim since her arms and legs movements are not from a swimmer with the practice to face those tides. The unrealistic cartoonish conclusion is disappointing with the shark crashing on the buoy mooring debris subsea, remembering the Looney Tunes characters The Road Runner playing tricks to Wile E. Coyote. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Águas Rasas" ("Shallow Waters")

I was with you until the shark turned into a stalker

[bmyers22 · 3/10 · 16 January 2017]

This movie started out well. A very attractive woman surfing on a beautiful, secluded beach. There was some great cinematography and shots of the area. Blake Lively even seems to be a decent actress.

Then the shark stuff starts, and from the very beginning, we have to forget about everything we know about sharks and play pretend. First of all, she really ticks off the shark somehow by disturbing its "feeding grounds." She approaches a dead whale that the shark was feeding on and seems to have offended the shark somehow. So the shark ignores the thousands of pounds of floating, dead meat in the water for the rest of the movie, and pursues the 100 pound surfer girl exclusively.

The surfer seeks refuge on the carcass of the whale, then the shark drags a dead whale many times its size further out into the ocean, and seems hell bent on knocking her off. In her escape from the floating whale to a small rock outcropping, she's bitten by the shark, and has some serious wounds from both the bite and coral. The shark is circling her, she's bleeding heavily, and there's no one around who can help.

At this point, I'm still willing to forgive the whole shark ignoring the dead whale to pursue a person who isn't even in the water any more. It still felt suspenseful. I wanted her to find a way out and survive. The movie still had my interest and I still cared what happened to her.

Then things got real, real stupid. The shark continued to circle, and killed a drunk on the beach who was trying to reach her. Then it killed two other surfers that she'd met the day before. It tried jumping up on the coral to reach her, and pretty much completely stopped acting like a shark. She managed to escape to a buoy as the tide came in, and the shark proceeded to rip the giant, steel buoy to pieces. She shoots the shark with a flare gun then lights whale oil in the water on fire with it, also lighting the shark on fire. I had already written off the movie at this point, but kept watching as I was already close to the end.

She then ties herself to the anchor that was holding the buoy in place, and as the shark breaks the chains away she is pulled hundreds of feet under water in the matter of a couple of seconds, and the shark chases her at full speed with reckless abandon to kill her. It ends up impaling itself on the jagged spikes which were apparently part of the anchor.

And yea, that was it. A stranded, wounded surfer with nothing kills an over 20 foot long shark by making it chase her into spikes. Dumb.

You know what would have been good? A wounded surfer on a small rock outcropping tries to keep her sanity and get help to survive a shark attack. Leave out the dead whale because that kind of made the rest of the movie not make sense. Don't make a wounded, half dead surfer kill a 20+ foot shark, that's not the victory that the movie needed. It would have been sufficient to have her survive. You don't have to schlock it up with the typical Hollywood type ending.

Sharks are scary enough, you don't have to make it cartoonish shark with a vendetta against a surfer. Every time the shark did something stupid that a shark would never do, it became less suspenseful. I don't know why they went down that road, but they turned a movie that started out pretty suspenseful into a SciFi Channel made for TV special with a dumb ending.

One of the best shark movies.

[paulclaassen · 8/10 · 3 July 2018]

Absolutely bloody fantastic! The photography is amazing, the location is breathtaking, Blake Lively's performance is incredible and the entire production is fantastic! Nerve-wreckingly suspenseful and brilliant! The scenery is great and wonderfully photographed, so its best viewed on Blu Ray.

Tense

[Stevieboy666 · 7/10 · 17 October 2018]

A young American woman goes surfing alone at a secluded beach in Mexico but finds herself stranded on a rock with a hungry great white shark circling. And a seagull called Steve for company! This makes a great change from the glut of ridiculous shark movies "inspired" by the likes of 'Sharknado". No roaring shark (I didn't hear any anyway) and no CGI that looks like they were done by a 5 year old. Sure, there are goofs and gaffs, and I felt that the final showdown was pretty silly. However it is nicely filmed, has decent effects, plenty of tension and Blake Lively does a good job as the heroine. She also looks mighty fine in a bikini!

This plot has more holes in it than Swiss cheese

[mkivtt · 4/10 · 18 August 2018]

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.

Straight to the point shark thriller

[Floated2 · 7/10 · 25 June 2018]

The Shallows is a relatively simply shark stranded thriller with the trailers showing exactly the type of film it is. This is a film which showcases Blake Lively as a strong leading actress and the film made a profit within its box office.

Most criticism comes from the fact that it may seem unrealistic at times but overall the film does a decent job at keeping those on the edge of the seat, while maintaining and engaging and entertaining plot.

The cgi is well done and keeps it simply throughout the film. The Shallows has a relatively slow start but within minutes has a quick build up to the point where we see Blake stranded by the rock. What was difficult in reasoning is how long she was on the rock with no food but yet seemed to have enough energy in swimming back and forth. Also as of note she meets a small seagull which steals the show in the end.

Overall, the Shallows is a small simple film with a simple intention at entertaining and in does the job. Recommend to those whom enjoy this sort of films. Nothing to take too serious but relax.

Better Than Expected, But...

[Curt-Rowlett · 7/10 · 2 July 2016]

I was trying to kill a bit of time, hence the reason why I went to see this movie, not expecting much. I was actually surprised at the quality of the filming locations, the camera work, the special effects, and the lack of any serious plot holes or stretches of the imagination.

A young woman goes surfing on a "secret" beach in Mexico and discovers that she has unknowingly entered into the feeding ground of a great white shark.

The comparisons to *Jaws* will be unavoidable. I will not give out any serious spoilers here but the only thing that really let me down to any degree was the ending. (Go see it and you'll see what I mean).

Definitely not a terrible way to spend 85 minutes of your time. Grab some popcorn, for sure!

Captivating

[Funasian2005 · 7/10 · 4 August 2017]

At first i thought it going to be a boring movie after reading all the negative reviews. After watching, i was pleasantly surprised. I love the special effects especially of the big white shark , the crystal clear water , the jelly fish and etc. The movie was well paced, i wasn't bored even for a single second even though 80% of screen time is only with blake lively and the bird. And it ended well with an unexpected climax albeit a little far fetched.

i will probably watch it again.

7/10.Definitely watchable if you don't get your expectations too high.

Surfer, Shark, Rock, Buoy - A deprived square

[hi_im_manic · 7/10 · 13 July 2016]

I'm not a fan of Blake's, but she was highly commendable in this Jaws- On-Steroids survival thriller that reads as though it were based in truth.

As a nursing school dropout haunted and derailed by memories of her moms inevitable demise, she's very good and so is the scripting. She was greatly convincing. Any shortcoming would be due the script. The surfing scenes were pretty good too, not overtly Hollywood, would have liked to have seen more. The faded split-screen for us on the phone was well done too. I love that drunk Mexican on the beach, he was great! 10/10! It doesn't seem likely that the shark would have been so focused on her given their behavioral facts. A shark chewing through any entire steel ocean buoy, for example, reaches hella far, even for the most aggressive species... especially when there's an uncontested whale buffet 100 foot away. Sure, she and others ventured into a feeding ground but why such focused aggression on her - venturing so far as to haunt her for days and take such pain to get her-?! Lots to talk about here.

Great shark movie

[iamjasonlane · 10/10 · 10 March 2017]

Exactly what it was supposed to be.

A bit formulaic, but really what can one do with a shark?

Blake Lively was amazing. If nothing else, you should watch this for her Riply-esque performance and strength in the face of complete torment and almost certain death.

If you don't know what that means, you should not be reading movie reviews.

I'd recommend this movie to any adult who likes the suspense/horror genre. Good watch.

A decent shark movie...

[mpasd · 6/10 · 7 December 2016]

I haven't seen many good shark movies in my life and i have to admin this one is not that bad. A bit unrealistic, yes.. but nonetheless, full of suspense and a nice little time kill.

**SPOILERS FROM HERE**

As i mentioned there is suspense in this movie, i didn't know whether she was going to make it off that rock or survive after (yes, i assumed she was going to live, not many movies have dark endings...). And that is a plus for this movie... However there were quite a few things i disliked... Her unbelievable endurance and strength despite the fact she lost a ton of blood due to the shark bite, multiple scratches and hits and a whole day of swimming... Sharks determination to eat one particular target even though it had a whole whale carcass just a few meters away alongside 3 people it ate during that period. I may be wrong, but i believe only a hungry animal would stalk one pray for so long, and this one had plenty to eat..

I had mixed feeling throughout this movie... It started of nice, then the shark went into berserk mode, killing everybody just because it can... at that point i started hating it a little bit. Then, struggle to live and little bit of action kicked in to save this movie.

Overall, i don't regret watching this move. It has it's ups and downs, but nevertheless a nice movie.

6/10

Horrible and unrealistic

[mbnumba · 3/10 · 21 September 2016]

I wanted to like this movie. I really did, but its just bad.

Basically we have a hot blond chick that gets stranded on a rock with a shark trying to get her.

Now here's the biggest flaw in the movie. There is a 2 ton whale that is barely eaten in the same location as this girl. So why is the shark interested in a 90lb woman over a 2 ton whale? Oh not only is this shark after this woman, this shark attempts to climb rocks, go through jellyfish, tries to climb its way through a buoy drone and basically stalk this girl for like two days when it has a nice huge whale right there? That made no sense at all.

The next issue is the woman is apparently a superhero since she can suffer massive blood lost, jellyfish stings, dehydration, concussions and yet still swim like an Olympic swimmer by out swimming a great white shark.

C'mon.

The Best Shark Movie since Jaws

[final-fantasyxcjo · 9/10 · 23 June 2016]

It first I didn't know what to expect from this movie, as it has become so hard to take shark movies seriously, however The Shallows not only surprised me, it is the best shark movie since Jaws and honestly the best creature feature in ages!

At only 85 minutes, this movie absolutely makes the most of that run-time and its 17 million dollar budget and delivers a tense, gripping, stress inducing movie that will constantly keep you on the edge of your seat. Blake Lively is on her way to stardom, as she carries this entire movie and is able to act without speaking, which is insanely hard to do. You care about her and you want her character to survive. The movie is insanely smart and the Director deserves all the credit in making a movie that honestly should not have worked and made it a classic in this genre.

The shark is absolutely terrifying and the way Lively is able to not only face off against this shark, but how she is able to make the most over her situation while being under-prepared was not only intelligent, but believable. The story is simple, straight forward, believable and so genuinely crafted, stylishly executed, and not a single scene is wasted. Director Jaume Collet- Serra will have no problem landing a future big budget Hollywood Blockbuster and Blake Lively will soon find herself as a leading lady more often.

The Shallows is the biggest surprise of the year, with gripping tension, a career performance from Blake Lively, beautiful scenery, an amazing story of will and survival and one big, mean, scary shark, The Shallows is a Summer movie that you don't want to miss! 9 out of 10

A Decent attempt. Can be watched once.

[sauravjoshi85 · 6/10 · 8 January 2023]

The Shallows is a survival horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra starring Blake Lively.

Nancy travels to a secluded beach following the death of her mother. While surfing, she gets attacked by a great white shark, which leaves her stranded on a rock 200 yards from the shore.

The film is a nice but half hearted attempt to make a shark attack film. It's also true that since Jaws there have been numerous attempts to make films on shark attacks and this film is still different from other but calling this film as an outright great approach wouldn't be correct because of factual and continuity error which make this film just another shark attack survival film.

The plot of the film is decent and execution is also decent to average, the CGI and underwater scenes a something to vouch for and deserves an applause although there are some big factual error such as any surfer knows that where there's a dead whale, there will surely be sharks to feast on it's body and the surfers will avoid going there.

Acting is superb from Blake Lively and she carried the film very well on her shoulders. The screenplay of the film is evenly paced and cinematography is superb.

Overall a decent shark survival film and a good attempt if not the best, can be watched once.

Canute in a bikini

[nrpool · 3/10 · 8 September 2016]

I can suspend disbelief with the best of them, a shark becomes vengeful towards a human, no problem, an exhausted woman can ride a turbo charged chain to extreme depth, fine, mobile phone coverage on an isolated beach in Mexico, sure, they have great infrastructure.

What I absolutely cannot accept is that high tide does not follow low tide by a little over six hours. It's the same the world over and is invariable. A hot girl in a bikini can persuade me of almost anything, but not that she can change the speed the moon revolves around the earth.

To add to this marine quibble, the story tells us there's 25 minutes to high tide, but the rock she's sitting on is still two feet above the water. Now if she'd been marooned on a rock in the Bristol Channel, where there's a huge tidal range, it's just possible the rock could have been covered 25 minutes later. Of course it's pretty cold, so no bikini, and there aren't any killer sharks, so no tension.

The rest of the film is extremely silly. She should have eaten the bird.

One of the Better Shark Movies Out There

[Michael_Elliott · 28 June 2016]

The Shallows (2016)

*** (out of 4)

Nancy (Blake Lively) heads to a secluded beach in Mexico that her mother had visited years earlier. The plan is to surf and reflect on her life but soon she's fighting for it when she's attacked by a Great White shark.

THE SHALLOWS has been called the best shark movie since JAWS and it's easy to see why so many people are falling in love with it. Director Jaume Collet-Serra has certainly created one of the more memorable thrillers of the past few years and while there's a lot of scenes with the shark the director also manages to build up suspense without seeing it. This is certainly a movie where the director has full control of the experience and he really delivers a nice little gem.

The greatest thing about the movie is certainly it's suspense factor. Going into the movie you already know that there's a shark that is going to attack so this immediately gets you ready for what's to come. What works so well is the fact that everything goes as you'd expect but at the thirty minute mark things take a bigger turn and we get several more twists and surprises. I'm obviously not going to ruin them here but there's no doubt that there are several scenes that will have your stomach in a knot as you wait to see where the next attack is going to come from.

The director delivers all sorts of great excitement and there's no doubt that the shark attacks are wonderfully done. What's so great about them is that the shark looks 100% real and there's never any feeling that you're watching a CGI shark like DEEP BLUE SEA or some other crap movie you'd see on SyFy. The movie also works whenever the shark isn't attacking because the director builds up such a relationship between the viewer and the Nancy character that you can't help but feel suspense even when the shark isn't there.

Lively turns in a very good performance as she perfectly hits on several emotional marks. Oscar Jaenada also deserves a lot of credit for the few scenes that he is in. There are a few flaws here and there, including a horrible ending but there's no question that THE SHALLOWS delivers the goods.

Not Awful!...

[MikesIDhasbeentaken · 6/10 · 10 September 2016]

..Is the best compliment to give this movie, because it really should be truly awful.. Very little story, and the little there is is just cheesy rubbish thrown in to try and make us care about the main character.

But essentially this movie is just a girl in a bikini trying to escape a shark for an hour and a half. it's keeps your interest a bit because she's not completely stupid, unfortunately the storyline , as it unfolds, is. The shark is done badly, it looks awful and the way it looks and acts and what it's capable of it just laughable, which is a shame and unexpected as the rest of the movie is done pretty well and the acting is OK.

In my Opinion the movies saved by the main girl not being too much of an idiot, and (last act excluded) doesn't make many decisions you think are stupid like in many other movies.