After losing her mother, the medical student Nancy (Blake Lively) dumps the medical school in Galveston and travels to Mexico, hitchhiking to a hidden beach that her mother loved when was young. She brings a backpack and a surf board to surf and she meets two surfers that warn about the low and high tides schedule. They leave the sea, but Nancy decides to stay a little more. When she sees a dead whale floating on the water, she swims close to the animal and is surprised by a white shark. She is bitten on the leg and uses her medical knowledge to survive on a rock. But the high tide is coming and she is under siege of the ferocious shark.
"The Shallows" is a reasonable dramatic thriller with ups and downs. It is certainly a film difficult to be made in an environment where everything is under movement and it might be difficult to synchronize the vessel, crane, cast and animals in such environment. Blake Lively might convince as a surfer provided she let only the stunts swim since her arms and legs movements are not from a swimmer with the practice to face those tides. The unrealistic cartoonish conclusion is disappointing with the shark crashing on the buoy mooring debris subsea, remembering the Looney Tunes characters The Road Runner playing tricks to Wile E. Coyote. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Águas Rasas" ("Shallow Waters")
"The Shallows" is a reasonable dramatic thriller with ups and downs. It is certainly a film difficult to be made in an environment where everything is under movement and it might be difficult to synchronize the vessel, crane, cast and animals in such environment. Blake Lively might convince as a surfer provided she let only the stunts swim since her arms and legs movements are not from a swimmer with the practice to face those tides. The unrealistic cartoonish conclusion is disappointing with the shark crashing on the buoy mooring debris subsea, remembering the Looney Tunes characters The Road Runner playing tricks to Wile E. Coyote. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Águas Rasas" ("Shallow Waters")