...good thing we packed those candies...

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Remember when you were little, and you saw Jaws, and it scared the crap out of you, and you didn't want to swim in your local pond/lake/river because you thought there was always a chance that the shark could get you from below? Well, I was just getting to the point where I was able to go swimming again, and then this other flippin' shark movie comes along, and sweet snapper, I don't want to swim again.
Granted, Open Water doesn't feature the same, blood-lusting sharks that Jaws did. This one has the rare, but apparently not rare enough, scuba-diver-left-behind-in-the-ocean-and we're-gonna-eat-ya shark. No, make that a plural: sharks.
After a miscalculation, two scuba divers on vacation are left behind on a scuba expedition in the middle of the ocean. They see some boats, but decide not to swim to them because they are at their drop-off point. As time goes on, the couple begins to drift in the ocean, leaving their drop-off point where, if anyone was looking for them, they could be found. Their instincts tell them to tread water and stay awake, but as time goes on, and night comes closer, the sharks come out to play. And, of course, they're hungry.
At the beginning of this movie, it says that it is based on true events, which scared the hell out of me. It makes me never, ever, want to go scuba diving, because I'm forgettable enough to get left behind too. And I have no survival instincts either. Especially against sharks.
This movie, like a recently reviewed movie Hard Candy, essentially features only two actors. They do a magnificent job as a couple, who's relationship is in trouble, and have to fight for their lives to stay awake and alive before a rescue team comes to get them. If they ever come to get them. They do a great job of acting out the panic and dread that would come along with being in such a situation. The movie does a great job of making you feel claustrophobic, even though you are in the middle of the ocean, you feel as lost and as scared as the actors do.
The MovieGuy says this is a very good, scary movie. I was tense watching it anyway. Anyone I know either says this movie is really good, or really terrible. Count me into the first category. Watch it!
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