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Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: In addition to its breathtaking underwater photography, Sharkwater has a convincing, impassioned argument of how the plight of sharks affects everyone.
Theatrical Release:Nov 2, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: The anti-JAWS, this documentary from Rob Stewart demonstrates importance of sharks to the world's ecosystems. SHARKWATER shows the truth about the sea creatures, including the horrific practice of... [More]
Director: Rob Stewart
Stewart's point is that the shark fin industry, in its short-sighted quest for financial gain, may trigger an ecological disaster beyond the extinction of the sharks themselves. This is depressing, but important, stuff.
Planet Earth saturation and the bludgeoning political stance pull it down, but it’s still a consistently engaging, partly thrilling look at a misunderstood species.
It is forceful. It is advocacy journalism. It is a documentary with a social conscience and a scientific agenda.
Rob Stewart's visually stunning documentary makes a powerful statement about the disastrous decline of the world's shark population and why it should -- and must -- matter to us.
If the film sometimes gets choppy, the filmmaker's passion for the subject and the disturbing revelations to be gained from watching the film make it more than worthwhile.
The high point of this entertaining documentary is [Rob] Stewart’s stop-at-nothing passion to save the sharks, especially when he hooks up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson to track down poachers off the coast of Costa Rica.
Stewart's 'personal journey' format isn't entirely successful, and verges on the egotistical, but the message of this film, and the imagery and statistics it tells it with, is angry, credible and worthwhile.
An amateurish but enjoyable and informative piece correcting all the misconceptions we might have about sharks.
Faintly egotistical biologist-turned-filmmaker Rob Stewart spent four years making this investigative doc and the result, despite his tendency towards over-earnest, stoner-esque commentary, is enlightening, shocking and more than a little worrying.
Undeniably captivating.
The film does what it's supposed to, inspire outrage. But still, Jaws will never have the appeal of those baby pandas.
It may seem strange to contemplate the possibility that sharks are more victim than vicious. Yet after Stewart makes his case you may find them and their cause, as he does, all-consuming.
Sharkwater is fascinating both as political statement and beautifully filmed documentary.
Sharkwater has a message or two or three; its intentions are nothing if not noble.
ecological alarm clock once again rings in 2007
While it's true that documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart comes on with an onslaught of zeal over his legendary subject, sharks, it's also true that he proves he's no "Grizzly Man" taking up with bears in the wild.
Sharkwater is a rare advocacy film that arouses both awe and wonder.
It’s Jaws – starring man as a far scarier predator.
Stewart, a Toronto-based marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety.
It’s a film you come away from feeling that you should get out there on the streets and start marching for sharks.
November 03, 2007:
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