Open Water (Widescreen Edition)
by Chris Kentis
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Actor: Blanchard Ryan, Cristina Zenarro, Daniel Travis, Michael E. Williamson, Saul SteinDirector: Chris Kentis
Brand: LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Producer: Estelle Lau
Cinematographer: Chris Kentis
Editor: Chris Kentis
Writer: Chris Kentis
Cinematographer: Laura Lau
Producer: Laura Lau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Open Water (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: WORTH OWNING
Summary: 5 Stars
This film gets featured at Sundance, a glowing review in The New Yorker, and two thumbs up from Ebert and Roper. So why it's overwhelmingly trashed on Amazon is a mystery. Open Water is an exceptionally well-done low-budget indie starring unknowns and real scary sea creatures. The creepy and unusual soundtrack is the perfect accompanyment.
What was intended to be a stress-relieving trip to the Caribbean quickly turns into a young couple's worst nightmare when their dive boat leaves them stranded in open water. I had recently returned from the Bahamas on an identical trip when I saw this film. There I learned this scenario of a dive boat taking off without someone, based on the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, happens in real life more than you want to know, adding a horrifying layer of reality. The tourist industry does a good job of keeping this quiet. It's easy to see how the head count can be screwed up on a crowded boat of strangers, bodies in constant motion, in and out of gear and in and out of the water.
In his 2004 review of the film, "A Mystery Resurfaces," critic Daniel Foggo writes: "It is chillingly authentic; all the more so because the lead actors, the relatively unknown Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis, spent more than 120 hours in the water 50 kilometres off Barbados amid all kinds of sea life, including the real bull sharks and grey reef sharks used in the scenes. Wearing chain mail under their wetsuits, the actors bobbed in the water while shark experts and the filmmakers manipulated their co-stars' movements by throwing chunks of bloody tuna near them."
The incessant waves filmed at eye-level is exactly what it looks like in open water miles from shore, emphasizing how impossible it is to keep your head entirely above surface even in calm seas. It's hard to tell from a quick glance at a dorsal fin whether it is a dolphin or a shark coming at you. Just dangling there even for a short while can be unnerving when there are plenty of sharks around and something keeps brushing your legs. Yech. This couple is left to drift in the ocean all day and all night, and through a thunderstorm, sharks circling. The ending is poignant, unexpected, and memorable. Makes for truly terrifying entertainment.
DVD Review: 3.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A simple but extraordinarily-effective horror film that's all the more successful for tapping into not only our fear of something in the water, but also of being left behind or forgotten; the rough characterization and relative lack of action has irritated some viewers, but Open Water is a brief (~80 minutes) and scary little film.
DVD Review: Worst movie ever
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie was the worst movie I have ever seen. The whole movie was just fighting about one thing or another. I love movies with a lot of plot and drama. This movie had neither. My dad is a fan of horror movies and he even gave this movie a bad ratting. The main charters start the movie off with a fight and never stop fighting the whole movie. They fight about where to go for vacation, what too do once on vacation, about having sex or not having sex, about whose fault is they end up in the water and finial about what to do once left behind by about the boat. If you really want to see this movie rent it or borrow it from a friend who wishes they had not bought it. That way you won't waist you money on a bad movie I would not even classify as a "B" movie.
BOTTOM LINE PAINT THE WALL AND WATCH IT DRY. YOU WILL GET MORE EXICEMENT OUT OF IT. DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE!!!!
DVD Review: No it's not jaws
Summary: 5 Stars
People seem to either love or hate this movie. If you want action, blood, and gore, watch something else. For me this was like listening to a really good blues singer. Cathartic, and it left me feeling like it said everything I couldn't bring myself to say.
Since the trailer tells you this anyway, a somewhat dysfunctional couple (Daniel and Susan, the actors real names also) go on vacation. After a night of not enough sleep they go scuba diving and are left behind in the ocean. That's the first third of the movie. Then some ungracious dinner guests swim over to visit, but that's only their most obvious problem.
The first time I saw it, I was on the edge of my chair for half the movie, which is impressive considering there is no action, violence, villians or monsters ( I guess the REAL sharks could be monsters) and not even all that much dialogue. The second time I caught a lot of pretty interesting nuances, and the 3rd time I still said WTF at the ending.
There are things that are hard to watch in this movie. The first time he's bitten Daniel lies to Susan and says it's a leg cramp. But the 2nd time she has to tie a tourniquet on his upper leg for a bite on the calf and suddenly their best case scenario involves his losing a leg. At this point he becomes not a grown man looking to his wife/girlfriend for help but a terrified 2 year old desperate for mommy. Not at all easy to watch, especially if you've seen people completely come apart like this in real life.
There's some good photography of the ocean. And a shot of an absolutely gorgeous tropical sunset that fills you with dread since the unfortunate couple are watching it in each other's arms-in the middle of the ocean. There are also a number of brief but very powerful moments of them caring for each other which left me wondering: if they survive will they marry each other the next day? Divorce each other the next day? (the movie is unclear about things like marital status) Never speak to each other again? Will one feel one way and the other feel differently?
There is a bedroom scene early on with what is probably unneccesary nudity, which no doubt serves the purpose of making half the watchers suddenly far more interested. It also contains what I thought was the only real flaw which is that Susan is just too gorgeous to be entirely believable. The wet suits dispose of that problem for most of the movie however,a little thought to making her appearance as imperfect as her character would have been in order. However the bedroom scene itself is a very touching portrait of a couple that's been together for a long time and know each other well, and I found it oddly moving.
Some folks found the lack of back story and the lack of really "deep" dialogue to find the characters hard to care about. However for me it allowed me to identify with them and I sure did-with in minutes there were two of me there on the screen and then in the water.
I think the key to this movie is accepting that the sharks are stand ins for things like hypothermia and dehydration which are slower, less dramatic, and far more deadly. Or better yet, stand ins for reality nibbling away at Daniel and Susan's self deception till only the truth remains. Which is enough to make a horror movie out of any situation......I was left thinking that this movie was more about a couple dealing with something like the loss of a child than it was about scuba and sharks, and a friend of mine compared it to a couple spending their last days together in a nursing home.
See it with someone you love.
Curt
DVD Review: This should be in the $3.99 bin at your local car wash...
Summary: 1 Stars
Actually that would be giving this movie more honor than it deserves. There's no story, no plot, and the soundtrack sucks. (Irrelevant pop songs would make a better soundtrack.) It is compared to "The Perfect Storm," but their is some development of the story and the characters, and one of the best scores from James Horner. This one is like a paragraph written by a first-grader, except the material might be a bit disturbing for them. "Two people went on a vacation. They went scuba diving. They were left behind. They died."
When I saw the that the sequel was released, I showed it too my mother and we had a good hearty laugh.
Description of Open Water (Widescreen Edition)
In search of much needed relaxation, Susan and Daniel take a tropical island vacation. While scuba diving miles off the coast, the tour guide miscounts leaving them abandoned in the middle of the ocean. As the hours pass, the couple realizes they are not alone as a shark's fin breaks the surface water. Over the next 24 hours, the couple must fight to stay afloat and alive, surrounded by miles of ocean.System Requirements:
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