The Shallows

What makes The Shallows churn so forcefully for so long is Jaume Collet-Serra’s visual acrobatics.

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The Shallows wants to be the actress’ 127 Hours or All Is Lost, but it’s really just a goosed-up slice of drive-in exploitation about an easy-on-the-eyes woman in peril.

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"The Shallows" suffers from an inability to realize how little it needs to get its points across. It might've been truly powerful, as opposed to clever and nerve wracking, without the exposition and inspirational back-story—like a woman-centric answer to the Robert Redford survival picture "All is Lost," which treated an old man's boating mishap as if it were a deleted chapter of "The Odyssey."

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Director Jaume Collet-Serra cements his action chops with this suspenseful lady-in-the-water tale.

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The gimmicky survival thriller The Shallows is out of its depth.

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It’s cheesy, but director Jaume Collet-Serra knows his genre thrills and builds layers of suspense and dread, along with some hypnotically beautiful aerial ocean shots.

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Is The Shallows a thriller for the ages? No, but it’s decent popcorn fare. It’s about as deep as the titular lagoon on which it’s set, but the breakers promise a short and heart-pounding ride, with no wipeout.

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Blake Lively finds herself stranded in shark-infested waters in this summer-movie nailbiter.

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Recovering from a traumatic event, medical student/expert surfer Nancy (Blake Lively) heads to a legendary secluded beach in Mexico for some board-based therapy. Little does she know that in the water lurks a creature that will test her mettle to the limit.

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Mr. Collet-Serra’s busy visual style, which uses a lot of fast-cutting, willy-nilly variations between slow and fast motion, and illogical but vivid point-of-view shots, seems at least somewhat apt under the exhilarating circumstances.

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The Shallows may not have the nightmare-inducing feeling I have been chasing since I was a kid, but it’ll do in a pinch.

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“The Shallows” remains mostly an exercise in pure cinema, wherein action drives the narrative and audiences are expected to extrapolate Nancy’s thoughts by watching how she handles any given situation.

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The climactic battle of wits between human and shark leads to a conclusion that got the audience whooping pretty good. The rest of it's OK.

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Shark is more interesting than Blake Lively in ‘The Shallows’

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Blake Lively stars in the shark-attack thriller.

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