The premise may be familiar, but everything that comes after is far from predictable. Well-crafted and visually mesmerising, The Shallows is gripping, delivering thrills at every turn. What follows is a battle for survival that requires all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness and fortitude. Things get dire when she's attacked by a great white shark, leaving her stranded on a rock only 200 yards from shore.
The Shallows follows Nancy, a young woman who goes surfing on a secluded beach. Though she is only 200 yards from her survival, getting there proves the ultimate contest of wills. Blake Lively is amazing and there are some great exciting scenes, even if they're brought down by some not-that-good directing.In the taut thriller The Shallows, Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing alone on a secluded beach when she is attacked by a great white shark and stranded just a short distance from the shore. It's one of those movies to watch on holidays with some friends and family when there's nothing decent on TV. Still, The Shallows is an entertaining movie. It literally drops it and the movie ends without answering that question, leaving me frustrated instead of relieved or. Without spoiling anything, there's this question that keeps being asked throughout the whole film, again and again, in order to create something that can draw us more close to the story and be more captivated. There's one other issue that, if I have to describe it in one word, it has to be "stupid". That's, by far, my major problem with this film. There are some really serious, tense and emotional scenes with more intense music, but the director was never able to maintain that level of thrill and intensity. The background music that was chosen to support certain scenes were incredibly off.
The thing that really messed up the movie and brought its excitement way down was the conflicting tones throughout it. There are some minor issues that bothered me a little, like the constant advertising to go-pros or even the slow first act (in a movie like this, we just want it to get to the shark attack instantly), but never at an annoying level.
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He tries to elevate the excitement of this film to a certain level that he's never able to reach due to a series of issues, but it's still exciting enough for me to be entertained. Jaume Collet-Serra could have done a better job. The CGI shark is amazing, really well defined, as well as the rest of the environment. Not in this case, she's the main reason why I actually enjoyed this movie. In a contained movie like this, with only one character to worry about, if the audience member doesn't feel like the protagonist is human enough, then the whole thing crumbles. She was able to transmit all of the emotions that one would feel in a situation like that (fear, pain, vulnerability) and, most importantly, she made me care for her. She has one of her best (if not the best) performances in this film and she needed to be at the top of her game since she was basically the only human character that mattered. It has some great exciting details, but some other big issues that I'm going to discuss below. The Shallows is, in my opinion, the best "shark-movie" that I've seen since the one directed by the great Steven Spielberg! However, that's not saying much since there aren't any decent movies involving sharks since then. I'll start by answering the question above: yes. Is it the great "shark-movie" that we wanted since Jaws? She's going to need all of her survival skills and medical background to get back to the sand without being eaten by the shark and, with this, we have a contained exciting thriller (my favorite type of movies). The Shallows tells the story of how Nancy (played by Blake Lively) got stranded 200 yards from the beach due to the sudden appearance of a great white shark.
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra Starring: Blake Lively Runtime: 87 min
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