The very essence of the movie was built upon the the tension she has between her and the animal trying to kill her. The film was very well paced, very well directed, and the shark was perfectly depicted as a sea monster. The issue I have with this film is that since it’s a short movie, only 75 minutes long, I could have watched the whole move in 20 minutes if I had skipped ahead a few times. She pulls off the tough young woman perfectly in this film. The struggles she faces during her 24 hour stint in the ocean is not quite oscar worthy, but close to being very good. If you don’t know any better, this movie would be a documentary on how a young girl killed a shark while stranded 300 yards off shore. Her character had maybe 25-30 lines in the entire movie, but pulls off the lack of words with her dramatic acting. Lively proves that you don’t have to have many lines to have a good performance in a movie. The movie has some interesting camera angles and lighting that leads to different effects on the shark and actress. The enlarged shark adds drama to the movie and really shows how out of place humans really are in the deep blue.īlake Lively plays a medical student on vacation and seeking to get closer to her mother though the Island she was on when her mother was pregnant with her.
Although the size isn’t perfect, the depiction of a monster is. The shark in the movie is almost too large to be real, looks about be about 20-30 feet from the camera angles I saw in the film. ‘The Shallows’ is a great start to dethrone the 70’s hit movie. (This review does contain an end movie spoiler)
The movie is full of suspense and keeps you on your toes until the end. Blake Lively stars in the next shark thriller in The Shallows.
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