Sunday, April 3, 2022

The Requin

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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated 1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going to review every single movie I see.  I’m going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future).  You can always ask me why I gave the ratings for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses under the ‘About Me’ section).
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The Requin                                                                  EH/OK
Alicia Silverstone in a shark movie?  As if!  You can barely even label it strictly such with the amount of minutes the toothy predators actually appear on screen during the almost 90-minute run-time.  That Clueless star (the role she’ll always be remembered for; at least to those of us that lived during the ‘90’s) plays a woman that recently lost an unborn child and travels with her husband to Vietnam (I think I heard Thailand mentioned, but Vietnam was mentioned more than once; whatever, somewhere over in Asia).  They are staying in a hut over the water when a storm washes them out to sea.  He can’t swim because he injured his legs and he doesn’t want her to go because of how dangerous it might be (or something).  It isn’t bad as a survival thriller for a bit (needless to say, the hut gradually becomes less and less intact), but when I watch a shark movie I expect to actually see them for a decent amount of the time.  It does take a while for the first shark to appear and the three times (if I recall correctly) they actually do aren’t that noteworthy; the final confrontation is so poorly done too (particularly in regards to a motor being used, plus an airborne shark).  Like I said, it wasn’t bad as a survival film, but not so good as a shark film, and the latter is what I expected more of, or at least better of.  I was reminded of Open Water at one time and that film’s a good example wherein both subgenres manage to work effectively.  3/31/2022

Other movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):

The Before Time  >>>EH

The Changed  >>>EH

The Devil’s Children  >>>EH/OK

Flee  >>>G

The Last Possession  >>>OK

Sin Eater  >>>EH

---Sean O.
4/3/2022

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