Blake Lively and her spirit-animal Seven Seagull — yeah, deal with it — bring the Evil Shark icon to a whole new generation. And she’s also kind of a badass…
Director Jaume Collet-Serra has handled both horror (House of Wax, The Orphan) and straight action (Liam Neeson’s Run All Night and Non-Stop), and he brings all those tools to bear here. It’s a little — pardon us, it has to be said — shallow, but it’s never presented as anything other than a shameless thriller that brings the monster-fear of Jaws back for a whole generation. The only real flaw is that there are no dwarf transvestites in the entire film. Imagine how good it could have been…
The Shallows stars Óscar Jaenada, and Brett Cullen, too. The film is in theaters now. Check out the trailer:
