Crappy film

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The film seems like a good one, but yet to me the introduction of this film has slow pace movie. It didn;t make me feel cared to the person acting in its film. buy yet it is still better than open water film.

After loosing their boat, the characters in this film need to swim a really long distance to get to an island. They basically just float around during the entire film. There is no sense of urgency to save their lives. The characters reacted so poorly, i actually had anxiety watching this one. In the end i was rooting for the shark

Great film, truly fear... The white shark was real and not a toy or animation. The acting was good, the camera manage to deliver the sense of realism and fear. The score was tense and the building suspense adequate. This movie its not even 6 in the IMDb rating... Why??? For me is the best movie from this director, even better than "Black water".So if you like survival movies like open water go for it, when you see in the movie the turtle shell eaten you know already what to expect from your legs in the open ocean... Good luck is a white!!!

This film is so well done you need a second viewing to appreciate all the clever little touches. When Luke (Damien Walshe-Howling), along with his offsider Warren (Kieran Darcy-Smith), are due to deliver a yacht to a customer in Indonesia, he invites three friends to join them on a cruise first: Matt (Gyton Grantley), his partner Suzie (Adrienne Pickering) and Matt's sister Kate (Zoe Naylor), Luke's old girlfriend.However, they are stranded at sea when the yacht capsizes. Under Luke's leadership, four of them decide to swim to an island over the horizon while Warren decides to stay on the overturned boat. The story follows the swimmers who are soon stalked by a great white shark.Fear of those teeth make this everyone's worst nightmare, but rather than being a simple gore-fest, the story deals with the dynamics among the swimmers, their absolute vulnerability, and how they face up to the psychological as well as the physical horror.Director Andrew Traucki threw every trick in the book at this film and he knows how to deliver a shock. Val Lewton may have had his bus, but Traucki has his splashing fish, and even the swimmers themselves when they suddenly bob up out of the water. As for the shark? Traucki takes the approach Lewton took in film after film - sometimes the best effect is the one you don't show. But when he does show the shark emerging out of the depths, it's so eerie it's enough to make you throw your swimming costume straight into the trash.The film is based on a real event, detailed on the IMDb Trivia page. However, there is one other aspect to the story that some may find interesting. Matt's character is based on Dennis Murphy, who in reality swam away from the other survivors to lure the shark away after it had severed his leg. He was posthumously awarded the Star of Courage, Australia's second highest civilian award for bravery. After seeing this movie one might wonder just how the powers-that-be actually made the decision to award the 'second' highest award - they must have had a very rarefied standard in mind to arrive at that.Superb photography and a brilliantly realised score add to a film that is one of the most edge-of-the-seat thrillers you are likely to see. But it is also an exploration of how people face stark terror, while still finding the inner strength to help each other.