Open Water (2003)
Country: US
Technical: col 79m
Director: Chris Kentis
Cast: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis
Synopsis:
A couple de-stressing on a diving holiday in Mexico get left behind by their boat because of a mix-up over numbers. As the hours drag on they begin to wonder if they will ever be picked up and become grimly aware that there are sharks taking an interest in them.
Review:
Following on from the Blair Witch logic (think real life, think small budget, have an angle), this modest thriller devotes much of its running time to our two protagonists bobbing in the water anxiously scanning the horizon. Sold as an almost unbearable ordeal on its release, on the small screen the effect is slightly underwhelming as thrills go, but the film's single-mindedness achieves a kind of baleful atmosphere by the end and one is left feeling sobered and somewhat bereft.
Country: US
Technical: col 79m
Director: Chris Kentis
Cast: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis
Synopsis:
A couple de-stressing on a diving holiday in Mexico get left behind by their boat because of a mix-up over numbers. As the hours drag on they begin to wonder if they will ever be picked up and become grimly aware that there are sharks taking an interest in them.
Review:
Following on from the Blair Witch logic (think real life, think small budget, have an angle), this modest thriller devotes much of its running time to our two protagonists bobbing in the water anxiously scanning the horizon. Sold as an almost unbearable ordeal on its release, on the small screen the effect is slightly underwhelming as thrills go, but the film's single-mindedness achieves a kind of baleful atmosphere by the end and one is left feeling sobered and somewhat bereft.
Country: US
Technical: col 79m
Director: Chris Kentis
Cast: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis
Synopsis:
A couple de-stressing on a diving holiday in Mexico get left behind by their boat because of a mix-up over numbers. As the hours drag on they begin to wonder if they will ever be picked up and become grimly aware that there are sharks taking an interest in them.
Review:
Following on from the Blair Witch logic (think real life, think small budget, have an angle), this modest thriller devotes much of its running time to our two protagonists bobbing in the water anxiously scanning the horizon. Sold as an almost unbearable ordeal on its release, on the small screen the effect is slightly underwhelming as thrills go, but the film's single-mindedness achieves a kind of baleful atmosphere by the end and one is left feeling sobered and somewhat bereft.