Such a frustrating disappointment

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

How the hell do surfers not see a HUGE whale being devoured by sharks? Brie Larson is going to play Captain Marvel in the Marvel cinematic universe. Get out of here

I'm really sick of White Sharks (Great Whites) being depicted as human eaters and hunters. It's simply NOT the case and this film does nothing to quell the social and ignorant hysteria surrounding such majestic beings.Instead it fans the flames with another mediocre shark attack film.Great Whites are incredibly intelligent. When humans have been bitten they are usually let go once the shark realised the human isn't a seal.Humans are the most arrogant, entitled, stupid creatures on the planet. These ideas that they should be entitled to enter the oceans without ever having risk of being looked at our attached by the oceans inhabitants is clear insanity and delusion. But out they go putting up bait lines and drums to kill whatever sharks happen to swim by the coast near where humans like to gather and frolick in the ocean.It's the epitomy of stupidity, arrogance and entitlement.Every other creature on the planet knows where it's at. Humans think they own the world. Here's a fact for you- the world would survive great without humanity, yet humans cannot live without the rest of the works population and diversity of species.Shark finning is still going on in the thousands, only God knows when the shark population will become extinct.Shark week 2018 stupidly told the location of their Great White shark dives so any numbnut with a penchant to kill these beautiful creatures has their own roadmap. White Sharks, aka Great Whites, are listed as a vulnerable specie. From Australia to America, all over the world, these beautiful sharks are baited with drum lines, hunted, caught in boats long nets for finning then dumped back to drown once their fins have been removed. Humans are the cause of every problem on the planet. Every single problem. Every one. It's a sobering fact isn't it.People cry out in alarm when someone is taken by a shark or bitten by one. There are many people who ever the oceans every day. If sharks were really that interested in killing people, especially Great Whites, there would be hundreds, thousands of deaths every year for each country bordering an ocean.There's not though, is there.Films like this should never be made People should not expect to kill whatever they don't lie or think is on their way. Humans need sharks. They are an apex predator and without them things go to crud. I'm embarrassed to be human.

"The Shallows" is a surprisingly well-made and intense movie. Some plot points are very far-fetched, there is an overuse of slow motion and the ending gets quite ridiculous BUT Blake Lively is perfect in the role, the scenery is stunning and it is exquisitely filmed with great visual effects. Sound & music worked well! All in all, it is a compelling survival thriller. I didn't expect it to be this good.

The opening few minutes of this film give us a bit of a back story about Nancy (Blake Lively) - who's come on a trip to a beach she used to come to with her late mother in an attempt apparently to pull herself together after her mother's death. That wasn't too long (too much examination of a character's backstory can be tedious) and so it served its purpose. After that, once Nancy gets to the beach we have some really good surfing footage as Nancy and a couple of locals are out on the waves enjoying themselves. Then comes the problem - her two surfing buddies leave while Nancy goes back out to catch one last wave as she says. Instead of a wave, she encounters a shark. Bitten and bleeding, she finds "safety" safety on an island that's not much more than a rock and that will likely disappear when the tide comes in - and there's no one around to rescue her.I will say that Lively was pretty good. I haven't really seen much of her and nothing she's done stands out for me. But she managed to carry this pretty well. Nancy was, for the most part, the only character in the movie, and Lively was able to make her plight interesting and realistic. I was impressed with her. Having said that, with so much of the movie set on Nancy's plight on the rock, this does get a bit tiresome after a while, because there's only so much that can be done in that setting. But still, you do sympathize with Nancy. Obviously, the movie leads up to the ultimate confrontation between Nancy and the shark, which turns out to be somewhat implausible.As shark movies go - and there seem to have been a lot of them lately, including the approximately 84 Sharknado movies that seem to have appeared in recent years - this one was pretty good. It's short, so even the somewhat draggy middle goes by fairly quickly, it's graphic in places and every now and then frightening. The CGI shark was pretty good - although pretty much all of these shark movies leave me wondering about the sharks. From everything I've read, sharks basically don't like the taste of we humans. Apparently we don't have enough fat on us for their taste buds - and Blake Lively certainly doesn't. So this shark's obsession with her is kind of a mystery. I can understand its initial curiosity, but once it got a bite it really should have lost interest. But then we wouldn't have had a movie, I suppose. And this does turn out to be a pretty decent movie. (7/10)