Kate has trained for many years to be able to swim with the sharks, he has the ability to sense, feel and when is a good time to join them without hurting you. In one expedition witch was lead by her, a colleague is killed by a shark and she can recover from this so she suspends her activity for almost a year. With bills that keep coming and the access to her boat is threaten, she need a way to pay the bank and recover her properties. Her boyfriend Jeff comes with an idea in witch she accompany a rich man addicted after dangerous sensation along with his son to the sea to swim with the sharks without a cage. She refuses knowing that this type of season is not good for this but with an arrangement of Jeff and without her knowing, agrees to indulge the millionaire. Things goes worst when they decide to go deep in the ocean and a power full storm overturns the boat and now they are in the position where are in the deep water along with dangerous and hungry sharks.Idea is good but unfortunately the movie is boring, the action develops too slow and there are only some good scene that are viewable, those that are underwater. Excepting this the film is quite annoying.

I agree with what most said about the Sharks made the movie. I was grateful this didn't try to incorporate some "fake" stuffed or blew up shark and was moved by the beauty in the scenes and especially the great whites.The characters were NOT believable. I am not against Halle Barry, I learned to respect her in The Call. Thought she did that Thriller justice (decent acting). However she was completely cast wrong here. I didn't see her as a shark expert..and was dumbfounded (really DUMB founded) by the dialog? Really, a "Shark Whisperer" with lines like "you have to get right up there and feel them and touch them for them to teach you what you need to learn.."?? Here is another famous Shark Whisperer's knowledge (listen close people, you don't want to miss this).."In order to swim with sharks you need to get near them so they trust you"? That's it. This is why this film failed miserably with me. The DIALOUGE was immature and stupid. it made Halley Barry MORE unbelievable to be in that role. I found her real simple (3to 4 words) here and there in the beginning where she was trying to speak (South African?) or (haitian)? Not sure. Sounded very forced and like she was reading from a card. Was NOT believable she had a second language. The relationship had NO chemistry with the French dude. He really made no sense (i mean literally) couldn't understand him and his mannerisms belonged more in a predictable French horn-dog movie then an action "shark" specialist movie. he didn't fit in his role either.the annoying rich guy was just that ANNOYING. an ENTIRE scene was thrown in that had NOTHING to do with the movie at all when the clam /seal criminals swam "that night"?? No bodies turned up, no fish was identified as "blood hungry" now, they even drove their boat to the very spot and never a word more about that scene (not to mention I couldn't tell what happened it was so dark and disheveled)??? Much of the action scenes I couldn't tell who it was or what was actually happening then it would flash to what we were taught to believe was "Kate" just hovering in the water, gasping for air every 10min then swimming back under water? Scrip should have been more smart and acting and CASTING more believable. I should have learned more of sharks. Halle didn't look to me like a shark woman and the script and lines were too dumb to prove her worthy of being any remote resemblance of a shark expert? You couldn't tell who was who in the water and after she lost her "safety" she continued to dive in with No one to watch her back? What changed for needing a safety? ANd, diving in treacherous water in the pitch BLACK made no NO sense not to mention taking two innocent wacks out in that dangerous patch. Nothing made sense. BUT, the scenery was gorgeous, the sharks were so gorgeous and I wanted yes YEARNED to alteast hear some new information about them (something intellectual and real interest) but everything out of Halle's mouth was stupid talk. I could have made stuff up more interesting and that sounded more SharK "ettiquitte" than her lines. I also didn't see any Love connection..just dis jointed, jittery, almost silly (child like) scenes from the beginning to end (with the guy that first died to her french misfit husband). no real chemistry or sense. I thought she needed time to adjust and yet we see a very short, forced scene where she dives in (again with NO safety) and she is back? The director and whoever wrote the scripts must have been hired off the streets?I loved the beautiful REAL LIFE shark filming. I wouldn't say I hated the movie though but that is because there have been so many MANY MANY horrid, absolute HIDEOUS movies out with blood and guts, bad script and it was refreshing to finally watch a movie with no sex and bad language - THAT was refreshing.

Shark Valley near the Cape in Southern Africa is the optimal place for cage diving with the Great White. Or in the case of Kate Mathieson (Halle Berry) a superior opportunity to free dive with the monstrous sea fauna. Enticed by the intelligence and ferocious beauty, Kate dedicates her life to understanding the animals, thus earning the nickname Shark Whisperer. However, once her whispering remains unheard and a pesky shark chows down her father figure. This leads to Kate retreating from the water and leading a rundown life of ocean tour operator verging on bankruptcy. That is until her quasi-husband Jeff (Olivier Martinez) brings an offer that cannot be refused: entertain millionaire Will Brady (Ralph Brown) and his son Luke (Luke Tyler) the opportunity to swim with sharks in exchange for an obscene amount of cash.Save for monetary gain and the vacation of a lifetime, "Dark Tide" fails to truly deliver any explanation for its existence. Director John Stockwell obviously felt some one-on-one full-frontal action with sharks would make for a good movie, especially if it also incorporates hi-fives with seals, low-fives with penguins, riding the waves with dolphins and Halle Berry donning a bikini. Given the sharks turned out to be decent actors, the same can't however be said about the rest of the cast, who imitate impressions of former glory just to get a paycheck and have as much time to benefit from the surroundings as possible. The only somewhat interesting character is the obnoxious Will Brady, charmless and obvious fish chowder before the end credits. However, honestly I was hoping the rest of the cast get munched up as soon as possible, leaving the sharks to take over the remaining runtime and play out the remainder of the movie as a National Geographic documentary.The clumsy script naturally doesn't help, not sure of whether its more on the side of "The Big Blue" action-drama or the "Jaws" thriller-killer. Thankfully or not, the sharks seem to have the best fleshed out characters, not senseless killers, but predatory animals which work within their own set of rules. Overseeing them is a clichéd and lumbered tale with no ambition or zeal.

Shouldn't there be some kind of protective Union to help prevent poor defenseless animals from appearing in stupid and embarrassing movies? I mean, actors and actress are supposed to be smart enough and decide for themselves whether or not a horrible scenario will negatively affect their careers (I'm looking at you, Halle Berry), but animals can't read clumsy scenarios! The sharks in "Dark Tide", for instance, are truly some of the most beautiful creatures Mother Nature brought forward, yet their astonishing appearance is criminally abused here in this dumb, exaggeratedly clichéd, dull and incompetent film. Amazing animals like these only belong in masterful documentaries or, as rare as they are, in qualitative adventure movies. Luckily enough – for my own personal anger management program, at least – I watched "Dark Tide" with the absolute lowest expectations imaginable, and that's all thanks to the fact I noticed the name of the director from beforehand. John Stockwell isn't a real filmmaker; he's a wannabe with an unhealthy fetish for famous actresses in colorful bikinis on the posters of his films! Kate Bosworth in "Blue Crush", Jessica Alba in "Into the Blue", half a dozen of sexy chicks in "Turistas" and now Halle Berry in "Dark Tide". The only recurring aspects that draw attention are the bikinis on the cover. I don't know John, but it's becoming rather difficult to convince us that you want to be seen as a serious director. The plot of "Dark Tide" features the dullest of stereotypes in the cast (traumatized heroes, obnoxious businessmen dying from cancer …) and immediately reverts to the worst clichés (troubled father-son relationships, heroine facing her demons…). The only thing worse than the dialogs are the miscast actors and actresses citing them. None of the cast members display any sort of conviction or emotion, and why should they? It's nothing but sheer nonsense anyway. If you do, however, make the mistake to watch "Dark Tide" you can at least enjoy the Cape Town filming locations and the shark footage.