Tockinit not horrible nor great

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

dannydc-07666 The Reef is about a group of friends traveling to a reef to go snorkeling when all of a sudden their boat capsizes and they make the decision to swim 12 miles to shore.I am a huge fan of shark movies, this one is one of the weaker ones. I'm saying this because mainly of how lazy the ending is. It shows the last survivor, Kate (who is played by one of the worst actresses I've ever seen) left on a reef to get rescued. It doesn't show anything about her rescue. It just says in text she was rescued the next day. I think that was very lazy. They could have filmed something about her getting rescued?All of the characters in this film are pretty weak in my opinion. They are extremely boring. I have one exception for Damian Walsh-Howling. The character of Luke is definitely the best out of them all. The others were rubbish. Throughout the parts where they are swimming for land, the acting is on and off with performance. 1 thing which i really am impressed with is that there is no CGI. All of the Great Whites are real; which i really like (and very relieved about). I have to give this film credit, as it isn't one of those fake shark movies recorded from a mobile phone.Overall i'm disappointed with this movie. It was extremely boring i say 80% of the whole film. The only saving graces is Luke and the real sharks, other than that, is was very dull. You Should avoid this film.

Gunjan Kumar Entertaining movie. Hated the ending though, Shark wasn't the villain, The woman who survived was. Luke saved her but That stupid lady let him die cause she wasn't feeling well so her laziness killed Luke. That woman ruined the movie. since its based on true story, and if in real it happened the same.. then i hate that surviving woman. Selfish, lazy, whore.

kieranclark-94350 Having enjoyed the terrible Sharknado franchise for the ridiculous movie plots and ideas, I thought I would try something similar. This; however, was awful. There was a real lack of action scenes, a lack of any acting and a lot of just watching people sit in the water! There was no comedy element like in Sharknado, there was a lack of horror and a lack of an actual movie. This movie earns itself a new movie genre, bland.Based on an apparent true story where a tiger shark attacked a group, in the movie a great white shark was used, so it cannot even be put in the documentary/reconstruction category.This is the worst movie I have seen but I would only recommend this to someone who wants to learn more about floating in the ocean.

tomsview This film is so well done you need a second viewing to appreciate all the clever little touches. When Luke (Damien Walshe-Howling), along with his offsider Warren (Kieran Darcy-Smith), are due to deliver a yacht to a customer in Indonesia, he invites three friends to join them on a cruise first: Matt (Gyton Grantley), his partner Suzie (Adrienne Pickering) and Matt's sister Kate (Zoe Naylor), Luke's old girlfriend.However, they are stranded at sea when the yacht capsizes. Under Luke's leadership, four of them decide to swim to an island over the horizon while Warren decides to stay on the overturned boat. The story follows the swimmers who are soon stalked by a great white shark.Fear of those teeth make this everyone's worst nightmare, but rather than being a simple gore-fest, the story deals with the dynamics among the swimmers, their absolute vulnerability, and how they face up to the psychological as well as the physical horror.Director Andrew Traucki threw every trick in the book at this film and he knows how to deliver a shock. Val Lewton may have had his bus, but Traucki has his splashing fish, and even the swimmers themselves when they suddenly bob up out of the water. As for the shark? Traucki takes the approach Lewton took in film after film - sometimes the best effect is the one you don't show. But when he does show the shark emerging out of the depths, it's so eerie it's enough to make you throw your swimming costume straight into the trash.The film is based on a real event, detailed on the IMDb Trivia page. However, there is one other aspect to the story that some may find interesting. Matt's character is based on Dennis Murphy, who in reality swam away from the other survivors to lure the shark away after it had severed his leg. He was posthumously awarded the Star of Courage, Australia's second highest civilian award for bravery. After seeing this movie one might wonder just how the powers-that-be actually made the decision to award the 'second' highest award - they must have had a very rarefied standard in mind to arrive at that.Superb photography and a brilliantly realised score add to a film that is one of the most edge-of-the-seat thrillers you are likely to see. But it is also an exploration of how people face stark terror, while still finding the inner strength to help each other.