Anyone else see it yet? I think it was pretty good I liked most of the scenes and stuff it seemed like a lot of people in the theater i was in didnt like it all. BUt overall i liked it and would buy it on dvd, especially if it had good special features.

As a diver, this movie blew my mind. I saw it with my cousin, who I often go diving with, and he recently did a great white cage dive in Mexico, so now I think he's scarred for life. :-) It was super realistic and I could honestly see it happening to anyone. The only way I can describe it is Jaws meets Blair Witch. I get the shivers just thinking about it.

I heard this movie was shot on a canon xl1, is that true?

I belive so it was definetly low budget. They spent 100 thousand on it but thats 1. Buying their own cameras 2. Paying the actors 3. Hiring a shark expert and 4. renting the boat

I know it was shot on mini dv and it was hard telling which camera they used, i HATED the way the mini dv looked until they got into the water... once they were in the ocean the mini dv look fit perfect with the feel of the movie.

I heard it was shot with a couple of Sony VX2000s.

My dad and I saw this a while ago and he was telling me that this was based on a true story, that actually happened to this couple who went diving in Austrailia. As for the sharks he said he didnt know if that was true because they never found their body, but the whole thing of being left behind was totaly true he said.

Hated it.

My review of this film using a line from the actual film: "Let's swim out of this puke."

the story behind it is loosly true. was a big news story a couple of years ago, on the great barrier reef. there is some doubt over the story as the couple were alledgidly witnessed in a town a couple weeks later.

Yes, it was a real event that happened here in Queensland a few years ago. Big news here then. I dont know where you heard that about them being spotted a few weeks later in a town?
In that location though its more likely that would die from exposure/drown/dehydration than sharks. There are lots of reef sharks everywhere, but nothing like in the movie. Although anything is possible. A bit further south, here on the gold coast, a man floated for 3 days after his fishing boat sank. There are much more dangerous sharks here such as Tigers and Bronze Whalers. I guerss they had to make the story more interesting to an american audience- just floating for a few days till they died isnt very exciting!

I felt like this was not bad for a really low budget film, but considering the $100,000 budget, I thought it looked worse than El Mariachi. The acting ranged from OK to pretty bad. Sure, the setting was good, but it's hard to mess that up - not like a lot of set construction was involved, as far as I know (they didn't shoot in a tank, right?).

The way the story was developed was decent, minus the interludes which took place on land to pad the running time. If you're making a situation-based movie, keep us in the characters' frame of reference, don't cut back to the beach constantly.

It wasn't "extremely scary" like reviewers had been claiming. Maybe some people are more easily frightened. I've done about a dozen dives, and this wouldn't make me reconsider diving or make me feel afraid in the water.

When I saw it there were maybe 15 other people in the theater. At the end about half were making comments about how ****ty it was and that they wanted their money back. I think the American public as a whole is extremely repelled by "cheap-looking" low budget movies. They marketed this as more mainstream than it really is, which is not such a bad move financially speaking. I'm sure they more than broke even. I wouldn't want to see it again, but it wasn't terrible either.

I agree that American audiences seem to want big budget star driven flicks, and are less likely to accept smaller no name actor indie flicks compared with the rest of the world. Not this movie is great, in fact its ****- but i think its harder for the general community in the US to accept smaller movies. I know there are some exceptions, but even when small indie flicks breakthrough in the US they have a lot of hype behind them.