THR | ‘The Shallows’ Review
The Hollywood Reporter
Shallow is a mild word for it. Others would be silly, miscalculated, unconvincing, artless, pandering, hokey, ridiculous. Or just plain awful. An old-fashioned shark-attack exploitation picture that willfully disregards all the important lessons of suspense filmmaking passed down from Alfred Hitchcock and, most applicably in this case, Steven Spielberg, The Shallows may generate a bit of commercial traction as a young-woman-in-peril (non) thriller. But what's onscreen is much closer to a late-1970s AIP-style cheapie than to what you expect from a major studio.
