Blanchard Ryan, Cristina Zenarro, Daniel Travis
Shot on digital video with a pair of unknown actors (Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis) who tread water for most of the film's brisk 79-minute running time, Open Water is a fact-based exercise i...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 28, 2004
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Stats: 3,497 reviews
Flixster Reviews (3,497)
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July 1, 2008Susan and Daniel, lost and alone, floating in the middle of a vast expanse of sinister saltiness from which there is no escape, no relief. They have been left to fend for and defend themselves. Armed with nothing but a diving knife and their wits, they are about to battle an unse...( read more)
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June 26, 2008For a movie that takes place in the middle of the ocean, it's pretty decent and ultimately, tragic.
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November 3, 2009An effectively terrifying movie not due to gore (there is practically none) but to the sheer psychological terror and the dread that escalates mercilessly, minute by minute. There is no story to speak of, and the viewer may be left feeling empty at the end because there is no rea...( read more)
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November 1, 2009This is a simple low budget movie that manages to keep you riveted to your seat for the entire film. Don't expect a big budget action movie but a well made independent film.
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October 14, 2009Not sure why it isn't better rated. Gives you an idea of what you'd face if you were left behind... And this is based on a true story.
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September 16, 2009Love-it or hate-it film. I had mixed feelings. I usually end up hating independent films that literally have a budget that could be betterly used for buying some chips and a soda at the store near your home, but this pushed the envelope in the sense that it put a lot of effort fo...( read more)
Critic Reviews
August 20, 2004
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
August 7, 2004
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
We, the audience, shuffle out of the theater, feeling drained and punished. full review
August 6, 2004
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
It's a very pure, basic kind of terror, nail-bitingly fun to watch; made more so by the startling realism of the sharks. full review
August 6, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rarely, but sometimes, a movie can have an actual physical effect on you. It gets under your defenses and sidesteps the 'it's only a movie' reflex and creates a visceral feeling that might as well be ... full review
August 5, 2004
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
This minimalist thriller evokes some deep and primal fears, but it is ultimately too under-dramatized to provoke anything more intense than squirming discomfort. full review
August 5, 2004
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
You can feel the water, stretching against an unsheltering sky, seep into your bones. full review
July 23, 2004
Nick Schager, Filmcritic.com
more teasing than terrifying, failing to achieve the nerve-wracking suspense that his concept (and the movie's buzz) suggests full review
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February 1, 2008This has got to be the worst movie I have ever seen.
I mean who wants to watch a movie about two people sitting in the water the whole movie hoping to be rescued?
They both die in the end.
If I wanted to watch any other shark movie I would watch Jaws.
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March 12, 2007My dad bought it thinking it was gonna be an action packed movie.... it turns out it the worst movie i can ever own i want my money back!
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March 3, 2007The movie poster/cover thing makes it look interesting but, although cliche, looks can be decieving. This is probably the worst recent film made. It's slow. It's boring. But if you like staring at water for an hour or so then you'll most likely enjoy it. It'd be so much better if you actually got to SEE the guy get eaten by the shark, but NO. He just HAD to be eaten during a thunderstorm, while it was dark. T____T Gah. If anything this whole movie is a really REALLY bad imitation of Jaws. Whatever you do, don't pay attention to the reviews on the DVD cover. The reviewers were either blind, stoned, had extremely bad judgement, or all of the above.
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October 15, 2006You know what! This movie did not have a happy ending. And it is, by & large, the American movie goers who think that having a happy ending is so vastly important to a happy world, even if what you are watching right then & there is a movie! Wake the f*** up! Try a movie like The Vanishing (The French version, NOT the American version!) and see something similar in terms of an "unhappy ending" and learn to face the real world!
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