When it comes to the work of Sully "Steven" Seagull I would have to say this is his best work.He is dynamic, hits all lines and he works well with co-star Blake Lively. She is decent, but her performance doesn't quiet have the depth of Seagulls. Over all it's an ok suspense/horror/cast away movie. I'm hoping Sully gets more out of his co-stars next time.

The "meat" of this drama, if you will, starts with a 30(?) foot shark choosing the kicking, bony non-natural food item Blake Lively over a lifeless whale carcass that'd be much safer and nutritional to eat. It only goes downhill from there.The shark inexplicably circles an outcropping of rock inexhaustibly, trapping Lively and eschewing its natural inclination to roam the sea in search of prey. Maybe it's the vengeful, near-human obsession with eating this surfer. But for an ocean-going creature, it's oddly clumsy, bumping into nearly everything it comes near. It does manage to nip her on the leg but all's well - not only does the gash nearly instantaneously coagulate and close on its own, she manages to stitch it with a necklace she's been wearing.Meanwhile, Lively manages to stave off her life-threatening hunger after ONE DAY by munching on live crabs and makes a friend of a seagull who - after she fixes its dislocated wing - stays by her side in a show of seeming solidarity. Think Little Mermaid. Several people come to her aid, all to be eaten in gruesome ways because she belongs to the shark, damn it.Inexplicably, Lively decides her salvation lies in reaching the buoy 30 yards further out to sea and makes it by swimming through a neon forest of jellyfish, which she instinctively knows the shark will dislike. Once on the buoy, she unlocks the flare gun box (c'mon, we all know ancient buoys have flare gun boxes) but fails to flag down a passing ship.But all is not lost. Because there's apparently no current in the Pacific ocean, the oil slick leading from the buoy to the dead whale (which the shark has ignored for two days running) is intact and immediately catches fire when a flare is fired into it. This burns the shark but succeeds only in making it angrier. It follows Lively as she sinks impossibly fast to a trench in the ocean ell ahead of the shark, who nonetheless is on her heels. But alas, our clumsy aggressor impales itself on the remnants of the metal buoy it only moments before ripped apart. Lively is washed ashore and rescued by a boy and his father only live to surf another day.Seriously.

This movie was horrible! I have never wrote a review before and I wish I could specifically comment on someone else's review because that's basically why I'm doing this. Somebody gave this a 10 out of 10! They even went as far as to saying the shark wasn't portrayed as some kind of man eating Beast. But yet it killed everybody it came into contact with. The acting was crappy the storyline was be on predictable and really did they need to throw in her dead mother at the end? Ouch my brain hurts from watching this movie! Do not I repeat do not waste one moment of your life watching this movie. Watch thankskilling instead.

This joined the extremely limited number of what I'd consider to be good shark movies that I've ever seen, I thought it had a great solid setup and a pretty immersive atmosphere that let you imagine a little of how scary such a situation would be. I found it overall to be a good movie because to me, for the most part it used the shark in an effective way that played up to its natural strengths as a terrifying predator of the sea, you constantly feel the threat of it lurking somewhere beneath the waves, and while we all know what a Great White looks like, when they really started showing it in all its vicious toothy glory it looked awesome, and was to me some fantastic cgi. I thought the beautiful Blake Lively gave a strong performance that very well conveyed her fear and as well as her will to survive against a very determined beast as the few options available to her gradually disappeared along with her ever-shrinking point of safety. I can see why they gave her the precious seagull to play off though, I don't think any actor could spend practically a whole movie's length standing on a rock completely alone and make it work.(James Franco? Hm..) Even Tom Hanks had Wilson! I think that in the closing scene when she's surfing again it should have revealed that she'd lost her leg instead of just having a little scar, it would have been more fitting and given a little more weight to her ordeal. There are certainly times when the shark action does start to feel noticeably Farfetched, like the jellyfish thing and when she sets it on fire with the whale oil, and especially how she gets it to impale itself on the buoy rebars...but I don't know it was a somewhat glossy thriller, it felt like it earned those moments and I think the final confrontation did call for something with a touch more oomph anyway.. Probably the biggest hole in the movie is why exactly a fairly mindless shark would bother tirelessly stalking one stranded human that it couldn't even really get to when it had a whole dead whale right there, or after it devoured those two and a half people! Sharks aren't really capable of becoming enraged or even territorial, last I checked, but it did work well for the plot, and I had fun with the flick, we already got a one hundred percent realistic shark movie that was called Open Water and it was a boring pile of crap. The most appealing thing about the move for me would have to be the visuals, all the beautiful bright open shots of the beach and the crashing blue sparkling waters were uplifting to look at and it had to be one of the most prettiest movies I've ever seen. It was cool too to have a semi-horror movie that was set in broad vivid daylight instead of the usual drabness. So while some might find it slow I was consistently engaged by this movie and I found it to be a tense and entertaining flick that I thought made great use of the shark as a classic menace and that to me made up for its flaws, and I'm glad that there are still the odd bright spots to be found in an often brutally abused horror sub-genre yet!