Review of The Shallows (2016) by Mobius F — 19 Apr 2017

Got to admit, didn't watch it all the way through (got about 3/4 though). The film is so badly written. The shark changes size several times, can swim right up to the beach without beaching itself, but is seen later as being a Jaws-size monster, doesn't kill for food (there's an entire whale carcass 500m away the whole time that it ignores), it's just randomly killing.

Can somehow bit people in half like they'd been slices with a chainsaw, yet we see later a person getting entirely swallowed. The "medical student" main character seems to fail completely to understand anything about how to treat her wounds.

She repeatedly makes choices that no sane person would make, even before the shark attack (like going to a beach she doesn't know the name of, not telling anyone where it is, not bothering to look it up, not arranging a pickup, getting a lift off a total stranger to aforementioned 'secret' beach, surfing in unknown waters alone, etc.

etc.) If this was made in the 80's, and Jaws didn't exist, it might have been a three star film. For a 2016 film, it's appallingly bad. It's very nicely filmed though, and the acting is pretty good.