The Reef (2010)

I liked this movie, except for the ending. It ended so abruptly, I was like "Is that it?" It was really disappointing. It was almost like the director didn't know where the movie should end, so he just.....ended it. I was really unsatisfied. I was hoping to see a lot more than what I did. It amazingly was able to keep my interest the whole 90 minutes, but when I was expecting a climax of some sort, the movie let me down. They get picked off one by one (and it's pretty predictable about which people go when) until there's a couple left then something not so shocking happens and it ends. Then before the credits the movie tells you what happens afterwards like a documentary or whatever. Like, they can't or don't feel like showing us what happens, so they just tell us in words on the screen what became of everyone.

There were some good intense moments with the shark, but I really didn't get to see enough of it. It was mostly just water...lots of water. There wasn't enough gore either. After a shark attack there should be lots of blood, but there was not a lot of blood shown. The closest gore this movie got to was a half eaten sea turtle and that's it.

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The other thing I didn't like about this film was the fact that the guy that decided to stay behind on the (possibly) sinking yacht was ignored. It focused on the 4 individuals that decided to swim to shore, then went back to the guy on the yacht, and then it shifted to the swimmers again but never went back to the yacht. So we didn't get to see how he made out. They focused back on the yacht once to show the sharks swimming around, which was kind of unnecessary because we all knew what the swimmers were going to encounter; there's no need to foreshadow it. Since they focused on the yacht once, they should've kept going back to it, so we could've seen what that guy had to go through. That way we wouldn't get bored looking at the same people in the same ocean just swimming around. That part just annoyed me a little bit. I thought they'd come back around and check in on the yacht every once in a while, but nope guess not. Was the yacht really sinking? Did it ever sink? Did the sharks get the guy on the yacht? A bunch of questions were still unanswered by the end of the film. I was hoping to know a lot more than I did. The whole movie ended as a mystery like "I guess we'll never know" sort of thing, and I didn't like that very much.

Some of the parts with the shark like I said were really suspenseful and good, but the ending really sucked thus ruining the entire movie for me. :(