THE SHALLOWS: A solo gripper

Cast: Blake Lively

Rated: 6/10

Shallow is a deep one on will power and fight for survival against all odds, in this, the odds being a killer shark, a marooned surfer in a deserted ocean and a bird for company.

That’s a pretty constricting platform to make a 2-hour film on but director Jaume Collet-Serra keeps you on the edge all the time. You live the protagonist’s fears, her helplessness, her will power, her hopelessness and her fight with the shark.

Much like Gravity, this one too is a solo performance and nothing much except the shark and the ocean water move here after the surfer from Texas is attacked while navigating a wave on a secret beach where help is none and public far away.

Blake Lively gives in a stunning performance as does the shark. Giving up her medical career after failing to save her mother, she goes solo to a secret beach in Mexico to find her mother’s favourite place. What happens to her depicts much more than just a shark attack and that’s what makes this one worth a watch. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 18 September, 2016