Some people couldn't seem to find enough exclamation marks on their respective keyboards to express their excitement, and others thought it looked like Open Water with a higher budget and a more bankable actress playing the not-so-helpless damsel in distress. When the first trailer for The Shallows dropped, coming seemingly out of nowhere a couple of months ago, there was a bit of an interesting response. Spoiler alert: the shark really throws a wrench in the spokes of what would otherwise have been a very nice day of surfing at the beach. And then a really, really big shark shows up.
Nancy's mom was a surfer and once surfed on a specific, secret beach in Mexico, so she goes there to surf a bit and to honor her mother's legacy, or something like that. It is also alluded to in an argument she has on the phone via a video chat with her dad, who is played by Brett Cullen.
This summer is one of those occasions, and this time it is former Gossip Girl Blake Lively who is at the mercy of nature's perfect killing machine in The Shallows.Ĭoming from Sony Pictures, this thriller centers almost entirely on Nancy ( Blake Lively), who is in Mexico mourning the loss of her mother, who seems to have died of cancer based on a picture that Nancy looks at on her phone. But sharks are still scary, and people still buy tickets to movies that have sharks in them, so occasionally we will get a shark movie. Steven Spielberg pretty much nailed it so impossibly hard and expertly with Jaws in 1975, that it has been very difficult for any movie prominently featuring a shark to live up to that very high bar ever since. Hollywood has an interesting history with movies about sharks.
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