Fresh and Exciting

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Don't get seduced by the bikini shot of Halle Berry on the movie case cover like I did. This is one of the worst movies I have seen in recent years. The ONLY reason to watch at least part of the movie, is Halle Berry and ONLY for her looks (sorry, not much else going on here). The story began and instantly I knew what was going to happen next - who was the expendable character and I was right. When that happens while watching a movie, it is a sign that the story is simple and it will be a boring and predictable movie. I fast forwarded through scenes hoping to catch the shark sequences but even those were clearly spliced together - what appeared to be stock shark footage and the movie scenes. In the end, it was a waste of time and not a movie you should waste your life watching. I did and that's enough.

After an accident forces her out of the water, a traumatized shark expert finds a possible chance at redemption guiding a thrill-seeker through shark-infested waters only for her worst fears to come back and haunt her.On the whole this was quite a disappointing and barely worthwhile killer shark thriller. That is the biggest issue here with this one, the fact that far too much of this one is an overblown drama about her experience and condition that it stops the film cold to deal with an endless series of uninteresting scenes that do nothing but eat up time. The endless scenes of everyone worrying about her and the stubbornness to get help from them or others really just end up going nowhere as it's not until the clichéd storyline of overdue bills that brings about the end of the funk which is really quite a common theme that it's completely unsurprising to see it being the catalyst for everyone. The scenes of her leading the tour for the group are hardly any more enjoyable and there's a large slew of scenes that are just painful to get through as they banter and tease each other which really shouldn't occur in such a situation as many of the jokes there could potentially lead to injury or death in an accident so there's a lot of questionable motives in place there which just continues the excruciatingly long time this one takes to actually do anything. On top of that, this one again goes for the drama with the out-of-nowhere revelation about the reason for being on the guided tour and really just overall taking this one so far out of the horror realm that it's well over an hour before there's any signs of shark attacks going on. The few glimpses seen here are nothing more than spliced shots from a number of National Geographic-style show specials relating to the creature and generally make for a more engaging and coherent watch than the clumsy way they're edited in here with the action occurring and them re-acting to it from another camera edit, and altogether this makes for some wholly uninteresting and bland experiences. There's a few somewhat decent elements here with this one really showing off a much more realistic and positive image of the creatures than would normally be the case for such a film here, really getting a good chance to look at their lifestyle and grace that they portray in real-life which is a rather enjoyable experience rather than painting them up to be flesh-crazed monsters. It still delves into that territory quite readily with the early attack proving to be completely understandable in terms of setting up her fears and the final half hour is full of great fun with them being forced to survive against the elements and the sharks continually around them, but it's still not quite enough to make it against the other flaws here.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

What possessed someone with Halle Berry's acting chops to take on this very tepid melodrama is anyones guess.The film starts out promisingly enough with a suspenseful shark attack that delivers the goods, but quickly degenerates in soap-opera-ish melodrama that never really engages or interests the viewer on any level.Berry phones in her performance on this show, and whilst some of the cinematography is beautiful I certainly didn't see $25 million on screen. It all just reeks a little of missed opportunity to me. I can see why the film was relegated to the DVD bargain bin in so many territories.While Dark Tide isn't a terrible film, it's certainly not a good one either.A feeble 4...

i love shark films, whether it jaws, deep blue sea or red water i Love 'em.they can be cheesy and tongue in cheek and unrealistic but not dark tide.the script was average at best and characters were flawed and acting could have been stronger, however the story was simple and in places took its time but not a bad film at all.the shark footage and underwater scenes were best par none and i have never...NEVER seen such a realistic shark attack in any film, the first one really catches you off guard.easy to watch and easy to enjoy.