The Shallows Review – Coming Soon
CS: In the sub-genre of shark-infested horror movies, Jaws will always reign supreme, but there is still a lot of fun and scares to be milked from the premise. The Shallows is one of the more successful ones, and that is primarily due to the performance of Blake Lively, and secondly due to the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra, who knows when to keep the film restrained and when to let loose and skirt the ridiculous. Collet-Serra’s done this kind of thing before; his films tend to have strong performances that almost seem undermined by how silly his movies can get. This time, he doesn’t subvert Lively’s strong work here, and the result is a film that is for the most part quite thrilling for its premise and its runtime.
