"Shark Beach", which opened in the first half of the summer program in North America on June 24, landed late on Friday before The film market in China landed. As a small-budget film produced by Sony with an investment of only $17 million, it is also an old tradition for Sony to start painting overseas in this period of time. It may feel strange that this thriller is based on the sea and surfing as elements, and it is only now in the Mid-Autumn Festival that it does not match the seasons, and the sense of substitution of the blue sea and clear sky is far less than that of two months ago, although the queen's bikini is indeed eye-catching, but at this time it still feels strange... However, fortunately, it is considered to catch up with the end of the summer file, the beginning of the autumn file, hard to say that it is still reasonable, unlike the batch of films, it is not good to see the warm scenes seen by others in the summer until the winter, don't be too picky!
Of course, you can pay less attention to the previous statement, after all, watching the works of the "season" in the corresponding season is definitely a good thing, but it is not necessary. Just like "The Fruit of Summer" you don't listen to in the summer, this is still a divine comedy; B Yi's "Summer, Fireworks, My Corpse" is still interesting even if you read it in winter, so you can't say that you don't watch "Shark Beach" in the summer or this movie is not good, whether it is unreasonable or willful, although there are many personal factors to appreciate this thing itself... As a thriller that at the beginning of the film, you are destined to know the outcome, it is much more important to watch the movie itself than to expect the plot. And this film is even more so, the story as a whole can be completely ignored, so we should focus on the performance of the actors in the movie, and it is precisely because of the simplicity of the story that it is doomed to not become an "interesting" movie.
Bréclevereley, a medical student who plays Nancy, is the only and absolute star in the film, and the thriller set in the summer is particularly co-produced with him, although in recent years the queen may prefer exquisite literary films. This is not the first time she has played a leading role in a film with such a clear seasonality, in the fledgling "Summer of Jeans" such a summer-rich youth film has found her, the co-production of that year and summer has become the current buy-not fit, may have passed nearly a decade of time, s Queen in "Shark Beach" although there is already some light girl feeling, but still young and compelling. In the first 20 minutes of the film, the scene of S arriving at the beach to put on a surfboard and take off his coat to reveal his bikini can be said to be very eye-catching, not to mention the scene of surfing on the unknown shoal with two surfers who met for the first time. If you like "Blue Sea and Blue Sky" these 20 minutes can satisfy you, but you will always feel that it is too long...
Since it is a thriller, it is natural to quickly advance the main thriller plot. The appearance of the shark is like this, the appearance of everything is so natural, except for the scene where the shark appears at the beginning of the film... The shark appears, the heroine is injured, the heroine persists, the passerby dies, the surfer dies... The climax of the first half of the film is so natural... The plot of a standard shark movie or this standard monster movie. I have to say that it is worthy of the work of the director who has filmed "Horror Wax Museum" and "Orphan", although this plot is completely expected, but in the pg13 big rating framework is also considered to be as far as possible, whether it is the drunkard who stole the heroine's mobile phone and money, or the two surfers who tried to save the heroine after the death are shocking, but they all stop, the degree of horror is not lost to the R-grade film, although you will not help but sigh why the normal great white shark is so bad...
The second half of the film is basically the one-man show of the queen, how to survive, do not give up as far as possible to find a way to be rescued has become the "main theme". Although it was indeed the Mexican guide who finally rescued Nancy ashore, the real "savior" is the heroine herself, and the important things are said three times, it is herself, herself, herself! Say. The first half of the film is still trying to pursue the truth, reflecting the inspirational story of a medical student who uses his ability to save himself and wait for rescue after encountering shark attack and bleeding, the second half is completely in the category of monster horror films, full of cult flavor. Whether it is the heroine's open-and-hang performance, or the shark's nuclear bomb-level attack power is the same, perhaps the most important thing is the last dashing death method of this great white shark, which can also be regarded as impressing all the moviegoers...
For the 8 characters who appear in the film, only the queen can really show her acting skills, and the performance is considered to be an evaluation! Queen s in the acting skills can be regarded as their own efforts, but also the return of the global box office of 110 million US dollars, the return on investment is quite good. The problem with the film itself is that the choice of subject matter limits the performance of the film, although the 87-minute length is not a "long film", but the film as a whole is still slightly delayed, it may be made into a 50-60 minutes, Sony Pictures is good at TV movies are more suitable, and the film will not have too many rhythm problems... Overall, this is a film that if you talk to me about this film many years later, all I can think of is the queen's posture of surfing in the blue sea and Sia's "bird set free" that sounded at the end of the film, as for the shark that resembles some sharks in "Deep Sea Shark", give me some Shark Wagtail!