Independent filmmaker Chris Kentis directs the dramatic thriller Open Water, based on a true story. Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) are a busy married couple on an island vacation. They board a vessel called the Reef Explorer with a group of other scuba divers, traveling 15 miles out to sea. Since they are certified to dive in open waters, the couple breaks off from the group to go exploring. The Reef Explorer accidentally leaves without a proper head count, leaving them stranded in shark-infested waters. ...
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Independent filmmaker Chris Kentis directs the dramatic thriller Open Water, based on a true story. Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) are a busy married couple on an island vacation. They board a vessel called the Reef Explorer with a group of other scuba divers, traveling 15 miles out to sea. Since they are certified to dive in open waters, the couple breaks off from the group to go exploring. The Reef Explorer accidentally leaves without a proper head count, leaving them stranded in shark-infested waters. Kentis and producer wife Laura Lau did all the filming themselves in the actual ocean without extraneous special effects, while the actors wore special steel-mesh under their wetsuits in the scenes where actual sharks were involved. Open Water was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the American Spectrum competition. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein, Michael E. Williamson, Cristina Zenato, John Charles, Estelle Lau, Steve Lemme. Very good. 2004 Run time: 79. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein, Michael E. Williamson, Cristina Zenato, John Charles, Estelle Lau, Steve Lemme. Very good. 2004 Run time: 79. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein, Michael E. Williamson, Cristina Zenato, John Charles, Estelle Lau, Steve Lemme. Very good. 2004 Run time: 79. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Made by a five-person crew with director Chris Kentis and producer Laura Lau (his wife), Open Water is a shark-attack flick that filmmakers shot on their weekend vacation in the Caribbean. A digital video, blown up to theater proportions makes this the longest home video you?ll ever see. Characters Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) are an over-worked, bickering, obnoxiously self-absorbed, yuppie couple, who try tear themselves away from the never-ending demands of their monotonous lives to book a scuba-diving vacation on a Caribbean island. Open Water is based on true events and filmed with real sharks but that is about all this film has to offer. The lack of knowledge as to what truly happened to this couple is easily conveyed to viewers by the non existent dialog throughout the film.
Open Water is a story of a whiny couple who get left behind by their diving boat in shark-infested waters. Being that we already know the fate that the couple will meet, the movie?s objective is to pad out 80 minutes between its beginning and its inevitable conclusion. Open Water wastes playing time with brutally boring and silent shots of people packing, unpacking, lying in bed, whining and bickering, and finally bobbing around in the water saying ?I think I felt something!?. The movie attempts a feeling of low-budget realness but milks the preliminary sense of morbid anticipation for as long as possible. You quickly find yourself longing for something unexpected to occur. Working with real sharks rather than mechanical ones might have been thrilling for the cast and crew, but it doesn?t provide much on screen excitement. Directors were so obsessed with reality that they neglected realism. You may begin to suspect the movie doesn?t have enough to sustain it for a full 80 minutes and it doesn?t. This is not to say that it is bad writing, bad acting, or bad filming. It would need to be more ambitious to be bad. ?It is simply the most mundane sort of behavior presented in the most mundane sort of way?.
The combination of unflattering videography and tan, buff, blandly attractive actors mouthing stilted dialog give the opening scenes a curious porn-like quality. This movie wears its cheapness like a badge of honor, but low-budget should only be something to be proud of when you don?t spend the whole time in the theater thinking about how cheap it looks. The cinematography is a B-grade repetition of the same images over and over. A close up of the struggling couple, a medium shot of the sky, then the couple again. Even the thrashing sharks become redundant. By the time you see the third fin in the water you start to wonder ?Is this all there is??
Overall Open Water is not the best movie you?ll ever see. A better story would be how it was made with real sharks but then again, you aren?t paying to see that. By the time this movie is finally over you?ll definitely find yourself rooting for the sharks.
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