Director: Andrew Traucki
Year: 2010
Country: Australia
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
Getting stranded in a remote section of water while on a cruise, a group of friends find their journey to sanctuary interrupted by a large rogue shark intent on stalking and eating them one-by-one and must try to get to safety before they all fall victim.
Review:
This is a massively dull and overblown film that never really made an impression one way or the other. The main problem with this one is the fact that it's just way too bland and lifeless for nearly all of what happens in here. The pace here is incredibly off by taking so long to have them stranded and then taking what seems like an eternity to get them into the water away from the wreck, it draws out the first half so deep into the movie there's very little to get invested in throughout here.
Once they're in the water, the film sputters even further with the entire time feeling like it consists of the group bobbing up and down on the lapping waves or has so many scenes of the friends looking into the water with their goggles and not seeing anything that it effectively making it seem like ninety-percent of the film has nothing happening. This really tends to play havoc with the kills and body count here by pushing them so far out into the film that there's such a dragged-out pace on display that gives off the feeling of a suspense/thriller over a full-on horror film as it never turns into one until the finale.
Almost as much of a total let-down is the utterly disappointing method of the attacks as it's edited in such a way as to make it impossible to tell what happened, who got hit or what was done, and then to have all the attacks finished off-screen is just a huge waste, leaving off the gore which is a real hurdle to get over. As well as the rather curious nature of why the shark is stalking them in the manner here which is quite unlikely and unexplained anyway, these here are enough to hold this down from the only real positive point.
That one enjoyable factor is that there's some suspense derived from these attack scenes here as there's genuine tension building up about the shark nearby, as the isolation, lapping water against them and fiddling with the goggles indeed causes a sense of anticipation over what's going to happen and when it'll come out of the darkness. That's what makes the first attack so good as it is with the build-up being rather fun with the shark coming in nicely, while the fact that these all make for a realistic, probable touch that really does do much to help the film. These here, as well as the finale which features the frantic race to get to the reef for protection that gives this another last-ditch positive here that's still mainly within the final half that makes for what really works here. Overall, this was a massive let-down against the many flaws.
Overview: *.5/5
There's not a whole lot to like with this one as it's just a bland, boring effort that misuses all the potential suspense that the premise setup from the beginning. Go for this one if you're more a fan of the realistic brand of killer shark films or intrigued by the direction it's taking, while those that are more into the cheesy side of the genre might not get a lot out of this one.
Review:
This is a massively dull and overblown film that never really made an impression one way or the other. The main problem with this one is the fact that it's just way too bland and lifeless for nearly all of what happens in here. The pace here is incredibly off by taking so long to have them stranded and then taking what seems like an eternity to get them into the water away from the wreck, it draws out the first half so deep into the movie there's very little to get invested in throughout here.
Once they're in the water, the film sputters even further with the entire time feeling like it consists of the group bobbing up and down on the lapping waves or has so many scenes of the friends looking into the water with their goggles and not seeing anything that it effectively making it seem like ninety-percent of the film has nothing happening. This really tends to play havoc with the kills and body count here by pushing them so far out into the film that there's such a dragged-out pace on display that gives off the feeling of a suspense/thriller over a full-on horror film as it never turns into one until the finale.
Almost as much of a total let-down is the utterly disappointing method of the attacks as it's edited in such a way as to make it impossible to tell what happened, who got hit or what was done, and then to have all the attacks finished off-screen is just a huge waste, leaving off the gore which is a real hurdle to get over. As well as the rather curious nature of why the shark is stalking them in the manner here which is quite unlikely and unexplained anyway, these here are enough to hold this down from the only real positive point.
That one enjoyable factor is that there's some suspense derived from these attack scenes here as there's genuine tension building up about the shark nearby, as the isolation, lapping water against them and fiddling with the goggles indeed causes a sense of anticipation over what's going to happen and when it'll come out of the darkness. That's what makes the first attack so good as it is with the build-up being rather fun with the shark coming in nicely, while the fact that these all make for a realistic, probable touch that really does do much to help the film. These here, as well as the finale which features the frantic race to get to the reef for protection that gives this another last-ditch positive here that's still mainly within the final half that makes for what really works here. Overall, this was a massive let-down against the many flaws.
Overview: *.5/5
There's not a whole lot to like with this one as it's just a bland, boring effort that misuses all the potential suspense that the premise setup from the beginning. Go for this one if you're more a fan of the realistic brand of killer shark films or intrigued by the direction it's taking, while those that are more into the cheesy side of the genre might not get a lot out of this one.
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