I used to love sharks. Jaws was my favorite movie when I was a young teenager. Shark Week was my favorite week of the year. I haven't really cared about sharks in years, but I still like them. I saw the trailer and thought it would be interesting, but when I ended up going to see it with a friend I was so excited.
It is a modern Jaws with better effects and suspense and it stars a woman. Blake Lively in this role is perfect, no one else could have played this character.
Blake Lively plays Nancy, a woman who is taking a break from medical school to surf. She goes looking for a secluded beach in Mexico her mother visited years before. While there she makes a couple of friends, but at the end of the day everything goes horribly wrong.
Nancy is attacked by a shark. Her leg is bitten badly. She tries to find safety on a whale carcass, but the shark pushes it until she falls off. She barely makes it to a cluster of rocks and hurts her foot badly on some stinging coral. Things are not looking good for her.
At some point overnight a man appears on the beach. The problem is, he is drunk and doesn't speak English. Nancy tries to tell him to get her phone that is in her bag on the beach. Predictably he steals it and her money since she is stranded. He sees her surfboard a few yards out and decides to steal it too. He doesn't make it back to shore in one piece. (Literally)
Nancy wakes up hours later traumatized, dehydrated, and losing a lot of blood. After a few hours two of the men she met the day before arrive and swim on their surfboards out towards her. Even though Nancy is yelling warnings about the shark and to go and get help, not to get in the water. They assure her the sharks in the area aren't dangerous. Moments later one of them is attacked and the other surfer starts swimming as fast as he can to the rock Nancy is on. He almost makes it to the rock, but he can't get onto it soon enough and the shark knocks him back underwater. We see the shark circle around and charge at him. Then all we see is blood.
A few hours later Nancy sees his helmet with his go-pro camera still intact. She has to go off the rock to get it. She realizes the shark is circling her the dead whale and a buoy that is further out. She times it and figures out how much time she has. She swims out to get the camera and makes it, but not without injuring herself on the stinging coral again. She has the camera and records a message for her family just in case anyone ever finds it. From here on its her and the shark battling for dear life. I don't want to spoil the ending. I'll just say it's epic, and having an appreciation for sharks pretty awesome too!
Overall three people are killed all of which are traumatic and brutal. There a several jump scares and the overall suspenseful nature of the movie might leave you on the edge of your seat. I would definitely recommend this movie. Just make sure about the content. There are some instances of heavy language. Suspense and frightening scenes. Even though they don't overly sexualize her Blake Lively wears a bikini most of the movie. At one point she sutures her own wound with her jewelry.
It is a modern Jaws with better effects and suspense and it stars a woman. Blake Lively in this role is perfect, no one else could have played this character.
Blake Lively plays Nancy, a woman who is taking a break from medical school to surf. She goes looking for a secluded beach in Mexico her mother visited years before. While there she makes a couple of friends, but at the end of the day everything goes horribly wrong.
Nancy is attacked by a shark. Her leg is bitten badly. She tries to find safety on a whale carcass, but the shark pushes it until she falls off. She barely makes it to a cluster of rocks and hurts her foot badly on some stinging coral. Things are not looking good for her.
At some point overnight a man appears on the beach. The problem is, he is drunk and doesn't speak English. Nancy tries to tell him to get her phone that is in her bag on the beach. Predictably he steals it and her money since she is stranded. He sees her surfboard a few yards out and decides to steal it too. He doesn't make it back to shore in one piece. (Literally)
Nancy wakes up hours later traumatized, dehydrated, and losing a lot of blood. After a few hours two of the men she met the day before arrive and swim on their surfboards out towards her. Even though Nancy is yelling warnings about the shark and to go and get help, not to get in the water. They assure her the sharks in the area aren't dangerous. Moments later one of them is attacked and the other surfer starts swimming as fast as he can to the rock Nancy is on. He almost makes it to the rock, but he can't get onto it soon enough and the shark knocks him back underwater. We see the shark circle around and charge at him. Then all we see is blood.
A few hours later Nancy sees his helmet with his go-pro camera still intact. She has to go off the rock to get it. She realizes the shark is circling her the dead whale and a buoy that is further out. She times it and figures out how much time she has. She swims out to get the camera and makes it, but not without injuring herself on the stinging coral again. She has the camera and records a message for her family just in case anyone ever finds it. From here on its her and the shark battling for dear life. I don't want to spoil the ending. I'll just say it's epic, and having an appreciation for sharks pretty awesome too!
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