The Shallows is solid, B-movie entertainment. There's not much plot beyond that, and what little the movie tries to add doesn't make it richer. Its situations are primal and often terrifying.

After being chomped on by a shark, she must figure out how to survive and get to safety. Review: The Shallows, at first, seems like an almost languid and tranquil vacation movie. We have Nancy, who is an avid surfer in search for the perfect wave, finding a sea of serenity in her.

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It's never as realistic or creepy as. The Shallows is an Asylum movie with good CGI, effective direction, gorgeous cinematography, talented acting and a serviceable script. The lack of campiness in the movie is actually a smidge of a drawback as one takes very seriously what is essentially a shark attack movie. With Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Joseph Salas. The Shallows movie review: That is not to say that the lovely Blake Lively doesn't shoulder her first solo effort well — even when given the lame backstory of a dead mother and a father who wants her to move on and finish medical college. The Shallows movie director: Jaume Collet-Serra The Shallows movie cast: Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada The Shallows, the new film from Jaume Collet-Serra, stands apart from the swamp because it's fun that's actually fun - the real pulse-thundering, breath-shortening deal - although it's.

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Blake Lively stranded on a rock, alone, with a shark keeping her from the safety of shore. Here's my review of the suspense fest "The Shallows"! See more vid. "The Shallows" is an intense and suspenseful movie that pits an intelligent and resourceful young woman against a great white shark off a lonely Mexican beach.

Nancy takes a break from medical school after the death of her mother and goes on a journey to discover the remote beach where her mom went surfing while pregnant with her. And, yep, there's a pretty gigantic and preposterously vindictive shark sculling about in this movie, too. That said, The Shallows isn't just a "We're gonna need a bigger boat" clone. It actually goes quite a bit deeper than that.