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Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

felis_gosal The film seems like a good one, but yet to me the introduction of this film has slow pace movie. It didn;t make me feel cared to the person acting in its film. buy yet it is still better than open water film.

sleons After loosing their boat, the characters in this film need to swim a really long distance to get to an island. They basically just float around during the entire film. There is no sense of urgency to save their lives. The characters reacted so poorly, i actually had anxiety watching this one. In the end i was rooting for the shark

dannydc-07666 The Reef is about a group of friends traveling to a reef to go snorkeling when all of a sudden their boat capsizes and they make the decision to swim 12 miles to shore.I am a huge fan of shark movies, this one is one of the weaker ones. I'm saying this because mainly of how lazy the ending is. It shows the last survivor, Kate (who is played by one of the worst actresses I've ever seen) left on a reef to get rescued. It doesn't show anything about her rescue. It just says in text she was rescued the next day. I think that was very lazy. They could have filmed something about her getting rescued?All of the characters in this film are pretty weak in my opinion. They are extremely boring. I have one exception for Damian Walsh-Howling. The character of Luke is definitely the best out of them all. The others were rubbish. Throughout the parts where they are swimming for land, the acting is on and off with performance. 1 thing which i really am impressed with is that there is no CGI. All of the Great Whites are real; which i really like (and very relieved about). I have to give this film credit, as it isn't one of those fake shark movies recorded from a mobile phone.Overall i'm disappointed with this movie. It was extremely boring i say 80% of the whole film. The only saving graces is Luke and the real sharks, other than that, is was very dull. You Should avoid this film.

Marin Maurovic The Reef (2010) is a movie directed by Andrew Traucki. It's a new generation shark movie, and probably the one that gets closest to being a horror movie. It's an Australian movie so the actor's accent might be a problem for non-native English speakers that aren't used to it, I recommend toggling the subtitles on if possible.The movie starts off in medias res, with a group of friends heading to Indonesia with a sailboat. We find out eventually, that two of the protagonists had a relationship in the past, that functions as side story that isn't too relevant, especially towards the end. During the trip the sailboat hits the bottom of the reef and tips over, making it unable for the characters to proceed. They choose to swim to the nearest island, about 12 miles from the shore, but a great white shark that swims in the area won't make things easy for them.As I am always kind of skeptic about new shark movies, I didn't have high hopes for this one either. But it turned out to be better than what I expected it to be. As I said, it has some jump scares and it's the most realistic shark movie I have seen. It is not based on a true story but it could have easily been. It's the only shark movie that made me think twice before jumping into deep waters again.In my opinion, the acting was good, with a lot of screaming and macabre reactions, that really gave me the feeling that I was watching a real event and not a movie. It's nothing too extreme, but that's exactly how a horror shark movie should be, realistic.I would recommend this movie, alongside with Steven Spielberg's Jaws, as the shark movies you need to watch as a shark fanatic. Solid plot, good cast and overall a more than average shark movie worth watching.