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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
What Was Once In the Deep Is Now In The Shallows...
A young lady on the cusp of a major life decision finds a secluded beach to surf that holds sentimental value to her. She soon realizes that she is on the feeding ground of a great white shark and stranded mere yards from shore with only her ingenuity to save her.
Nancy Adams is a med student who has decided to drop out of the medical program after the death of her mother, but when she finds herself trapped on a reef 200 yards from safety her survival instincts kick in. Chloe Adams is Nancy’s sister who wishes she could be there with her older sister at the secluded beach that meant so much to their mother in happier times. Nancy’s father wants nothing but the best for his daughter and wants her to reconsider her choice to leave medical school as he sees it as a decision coming from a place of hurt. Carlos is a native of the area who takes Nancy to the secluded spot and offers to collect her when she is done experiencing the area and whatever it is to bring her to a state of clarity.
The Shallows is an interesting entry into the survival horror thriller genre as it does something that most modern films of its type do, which is use the cover of another genre to pull you. As you watch it you feel like you could easily be watching The
Endless Summer or
Blue Crush until you are struck by the fact that you are really watching Soul Surfer meets
Open Water. I love the fact that they use language as a way of isolating the main character from those around her which touches on a real fear we all share about not being understood in dire circumstances. Blake Lively does a great job in holding our attention to her plight in a manner that Tom Hanks did in
Castaway or Will Smith did in
I Am Legend and shows she has come a long way from
Gossip Girl. Jaume Collet-Serra does a solid job directing this film in such a way that it truly deserves to be remembered along with other shark movies from
Jaws to
Deep Blue Sea. This is summer entertainment that may keep you out of the sea.
I rate this movie a 3 out of 5.
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See other reviews by Rouén HERE.
Rouén Robinson has been an
avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures
for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for
The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for F
LIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen
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