Review – ‘The Reef’ (2010)

The Reef is a decent shark film, which does away with over the top Sharknado style action and includes more realistic, tense scenes.

While sailing to Indonesia with his friends, Luke’s boat capsizes. Desperate to survive, a few members decide to risk swimming to a nearby island but a great white shark starts trailing them.

It’s a flat pack shark film at its core, it uses the first 10 minutes to set up the characters, the love interest, the setting etc and then we get into the action which is what everybody is waiting for. At this point it is almost insulting when a shark film takes longer than 10 minutes to get into it.

The characters are nothing special, and the certain archetypes are there ranging from the brave one to the loud and annoying one. Everybody dies who you expect to die, there are no surprises here.

What is interesting is the use of real shark footage and the blending of that with close ups, it really does feel as if there is a real shark in the water, and by having real footage, it lends the film a big hand in getting the audience on board -with the scenario – pun not intended.

A standard shark film with cut out characters, yet is saved partially by the use of the shark footage and the ability of creating tension.

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