Based on a true story, a couple of scuba divers are accidentally left behind in the open water. Floating helplessly, the sharks soon appear to make a bad situation so much worse.

This might be the scariest movie I've ever seen. No, I won't be nervous tonight when I hear a sound outside, that maybe a shark is after me, or even a jellyfish. Thing is, the only difference between the couple in this flick and me is that I'm not interested in diving. I've done things where my life is literally in the hands of people that might not be paying attention, we all have, and this film makes you aware of that.

It's a beautifully simple story, I literally told you the whole thing in the first paragraph. The strength of the movie is how far a simple story can go to build a hopeless dread in an audience.

Lot's of people will be disappointed in this flick, during the showing I was at there were lots of folks brought their kids expecting Jaws 5. It wasn't Jaws 5, Chief Brody doesn't show up to save the day with an exploding rubber shark and a cool one-liner. If you want Jaws, go rent it, hell, you can buy it for 9 bucks in WalMart, and it's easily worth it.

This flick has no CGI or special effects, don't expect them. There is some nudity, which is right down shocking in this day and age. I thought big-screen nudity was a thing of the past, not so.

Everyone's going to watch this movie with an "I'd swim here" or "I'd do this" and the truth is, there's not many options and most likely you'd do the same thing they did, they cried, floated and bitched. The ultimate in helpless isolation, Open Water delivers what it promised, a suspenseful, hopelessness that just gets worse as the film goes on.

8 out of 10 really unpleasant vacations

Ahoy me maties, I just returned from watching Jaws 5: The Blair Shark. I thought this one was long and boring and it was only like 88 minutes long. If they would have shortened it down to 30 minutes it would have been awesome. The first twenty minutes are not even needed, except for the nudity, Damn was she hot and natural.

Once up from the bottum of the ocean floor and left to drift, I though it would pick up, but it never really did. There were also two scenes that are never answered. At one point a boat is headed to pick up our two drifters, cut scene to their apartment and when we return, nothing else is said about the boat. Next they are drifting to a buoy, suddenly a shark appears and we forget about the buoy. Lets have some damn consistency here. Also their endless bitching and bickering drove me nuts, I would have been happy if both of them would have just drowned in the first hour at sea. Also the stupid ass girl, Susan, drinks sea water for the first part of the film, lets see most people know you can't do that by the age of 4. Also the documentary style camera they used made me rush out and buy pair of goggles and a snorkel about 1/3 way into the movie, because I got sick of watching them poke their heads underwater.

That being said, I do have to give this movie it's dues. First, when the first sharks appear, it is terrifiying, without a doubt. Second the fact that these actors allowed themselves to be surrounded by live sharks is very impressive and brave. Third the film is original and may set a standard for realism that may not be reached for quite awhile. But on the whole I didn't care for it all that much, plus the ending was lame. On a plus note one of the chracters from Club Dread shows up on the boat, see if you can spot him.

4/10 for all the originality

Before this films release I would say I was anticapting seeing this more than any flick over the last 10 years. Really. The hype surrounding this film was that it was scarier than Jaws. Scarier than Jaws? I gotta see this! Well needless to say I was let down in a big way. Not that this is a terrible movie but when something is built up as much as this I was expecting another Jaws-type effort of greatness.

It was really cool how they used real sharks (part of the hype) and the dreadful feeling of isolation worked out great. I felt uneasy the whole way through this journey till the end. However the end let me down. I was expecting more horrifying things to happen to this couple then what actually did.

So overall this is a well made, solid effort that if you haven't seen you will probably enjoy. The hype around this film is gone now so you will not be tainted. It does have genuinely scary moments. Moderately recommended

6 out of 10 much appreciated random nude scenes