Open Water (2003)

Directed by Chris Kentis
US, 2003, color, 79 min
With Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis

(see the IMDB entry for details)

It has a simple premise which is conveyed with endless bobbing around in the open ocean under an open sky yet...

BE WARNED: If you go to see it seeking a horror film similar to Jaws, then you will feel somewhat cheated not due to a shortage of scary moments but because there isnt a horror movie payoff at the end. Also, despite developing a great sense of it, it is not a Robinson-Crusoe-type castaway study. Strangely, for all that happens over the 79 minutes, it is simply a film about two people -- Susan and Daniel -- with the sense of an impending trainwreck right from the first five minutes of the movie.

Theatre viewing highly recommended