Simply A Masterpiece

Fresh and Exciting

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

After an accident forces her out of the water, a traumatized shark expert finds a possible chance at redemption guiding a thrill-seeker through shark-infested waters only for her worst fears to come back and haunt her.On the whole this was quite a disappointing and barely worthwhile killer shark thriller. That is the biggest issue here with this one, the fact that far too much of this one is an overblown drama about her experience and condition that it stops the film cold to deal with an endless series of uninteresting scenes that do nothing but eat up time. The endless scenes of everyone worrying about her and the stubbornness to get help from them or others really just end up going nowhere as it's not until the clichéd storyline of overdue bills that brings about the end of the funk which is really quite a common theme that it's completely unsurprising to see it being the catalyst for everyone. The scenes of her leading the tour for the group are hardly any more enjoyable and there's a large slew of scenes that are just painful to get through as they banter and tease each other which really shouldn't occur in such a situation as many of the jokes there could potentially lead to injury or death in an accident so there's a lot of questionable motives in place there which just continues the excruciatingly long time this one takes to actually do anything. On top of that, this one again goes for the drama with the out-of-nowhere revelation about the reason for being on the guided tour and really just overall taking this one so far out of the horror realm that it's well over an hour before there's any signs of shark attacks going on. The few glimpses seen here are nothing more than spliced shots from a number of National Geographic-style show specials relating to the creature and generally make for a more engaging and coherent watch than the clumsy way they're edited in here with the action occurring and them re-acting to it from another camera edit, and altogether this makes for some wholly uninteresting and bland experiences. There's a few somewhat decent elements here with this one really showing off a much more realistic and positive image of the creatures than would normally be the case for such a film here, really getting a good chance to look at their lifestyle and grace that they portray in real-life which is a rather enjoyable experience rather than painting them up to be flesh-crazed monsters. It still delves into that territory quite readily with the early attack proving to be completely understandable in terms of setting up her fears and the final half hour is full of great fun with them being forced to survive against the elements and the sharks continually around them, but it's still not quite enough to make it against the other flaws here.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

I didn't know much about the plot before I saw this movie. I figured that it probably wouldn't be to bad and since it has some known faces I expected at least a decent story. I was wrong. The story and the movie are bad and the acting is nothing special. The one redeeming feature is the beautiful scenery of Cape Town and it's surrounding areas. Having been in that part of South Africa it was nice to see them again. The story could have made sense but by the end there are too many plot holes and things that don't make sense. A marine biologist (played by Halle Berry) who has spent 10 years studying sharks and swimming with them is involved in a shark attack at the start of the movie. Her friend is killed and as a result she has withdrawn from the shark diving world and and takes tourists on boat rides and shows them seals and penguins. She is in financial dire straits and her estranged husband (Oliver Martinez) proposes a deal for them to take out a rich tourist and his son to swim with sharks. He offers them 100 000 euros (in local currency over 1 Million Rand) for this. Berry's character reluctantly accepts the offer since she is tricked into believing that someone paying that kind of money will be happy with the promise of being taken out to sea and maybe seeing sharks. She promises she will show them seals, and if sharks happen to be present then great. The tourist promises to stay in the shark diving cage until Berry calls him out when it is safe if they do dive with sharks.When they are out in the ocean they go near Seal Island which is world renowned for having an area around the island known as the kill zone where most shark attacks on seals happen. To make matters worse it is the middle of mating season. So yes, they are taking tourists out to swim in the kill zone in the middle of shark mating season. At first the rich tourist is told to stay in the shark diving cage but he disregards the instructions and goes out within a few minutes of the dive. This annoys Berry' and she wants to call the whole thing off. Instead she gets into an argument with her husband and changes her mind and decides to take them further out to sea in storm like weather where they can see some really big sharks of up to 20 feet. I am not making this up, she literally changes her mind after a shouting argument with her husband and makes a great decision of taking out a small ship into the middle if the ocean in rough conditions with relatively inexperienced and annoying divers. On top of this, they had steering problems with the boat but the assistant fixed it so they go on anyway. When they get there she goads the tourist into diving without the cage, even though he changed his mind by then. So all of a sudden from being indecisive Berry is almost pushing the man to go into the open water without the protection of a cage. At one point I literally expected them to start riding the sharks rodeo style or jump down their throats (which in fact would have been more preferable). As is to be expected the storm tips the boat over and some of the characters are attacked and killed by sharks. There are also minor annoyances in the movie that make it even worse. The tourist lights up a cigarette when he gets on the boat but Berry tells him there is no smoking on her boat. She however doesn't have a problem with him drinking beer even though he is going to go diving with sharks. I guess tipsy or drunk tourists are better for shark diving than those nasty smokers. She also does nothing when her husband light up. She also doesn't take any air cylinders on board because sharks don't like bubbles apparently. They don't much like idiotic plot lines either and in that aspect they are very similar to us movie watchers. The acting: Berry tries to carry off a look of indecisiveness and vulnerability but she looks prissy and as if she stepped off of a modeling catwalk. Her husband tries to be caring and helpful but looks dodgy with ulterior motives. Their assistant is supposed to be the comic relief but he is more or less annoying especially when playing a game on his iPad (in the game he is the shark getting points for eating surfers). The rich tourist is a just annoying and not likable at all, and his son is irrelevant and there to fill the boat and some screen time. I lived in Cape Town, and know people who dived with sharks and who are certified divers and they would never go out in middle of shark mating season, in bad weather with inexperienced divers and then almost force them out of the cage. They especially wouldn't do that when the Great White Shark is the shark they are after. So it is just nonsense, because no one in their right mind would behave the way they do. There is also a scene at the beginning where poachers are shown diving for abalone near the kill zone of seal island in the dark. I mean are they insane, why not attach some nice juicy steaks to their dive suits whilst they are at it. Overall this movie attempts to be a character driven movie with sub-plots and stories. It fails abysmally in this since by the end of the movie you care more about the sharks then the people. Give this a miss, you might as well watch the discovery channel for shots of beautiful scenery and sharks.

Kate has trained for many years to be able to swim with the sharks, he has the ability to sense, feel and when is a good time to join them without hurting you. In one expedition witch was lead by her, a colleague is killed by a shark and she can recover from this so she suspends her activity for almost a year. With bills that keep coming and the access to her boat is threaten, she need a way to pay the bank and recover her properties. Her boyfriend Jeff comes with an idea in witch she accompany a rich man addicted after dangerous sensation along with his son to the sea to swim with the sharks without a cage. She refuses knowing that this type of season is not good for this but with an arrangement of Jeff and without her knowing, agrees to indulge the millionaire. Things goes worst when they decide to go deep in the ocean and a power full storm overturns the boat and now they are in the position where are in the deep water along with dangerous and hungry sharks.Idea is good but unfortunately the movie is boring, the action develops too slow and there are only some good scene that are viewable, those that are underwater. Excepting this the film is quite annoying.

This was an excellent movie! I'm not sure why it has such a low rating, maybe not enough blood and guts for people.If you want to see a movie that can show the real power, yet graceful side of sharks this is the movie for you. It has none of the big breasted bimbos screaming at the top of their lungs, doing nothing to save them selves. It has a wonderful actress as a free diver, swimming with the sharks. The dynamic between the characters is amazing, and the characters really cause you to believe that this might actually happen.The realness of this movie shocked me, as I thought it was going to be another Jaws type movie, but it's far from it. The film makers really did their research when making this movie.So don't miss out....this is a MUST see movie if you're a shark lover.