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(Reviewed by Preppy) -  Good but not great.  A husband and wife are accidentally left behind on a scuba diving trip. Unfortunately, they're in the middle of the ocean and a current is pulling them farther out. No one knows they're missing, night is coming, and then the sharks show up....

This film has won HUGE praise from film festival critics...but it's just OK. Yeah, it's well-done, yes it's scary--but only a little. For one thing it's 40 minutes until they get in the water...and we learn nothing about them. You just see them vacationing and enjoying it all. No insight into their feeling or lives at all. So when they're attacked later on, you really don't know them so it doesn't bother you that much. And the scenes in the water are scary at first but slowly become boring. They only perk up when the sharks pop up. The two actors are very good but there's only so much they can do with this script. And the ending DID surprise me (and other people in the theatre). So it's worth seeing but it's NOT the masterpiece people are making it out to be.

I give it a 7.

 

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