Perfect cast and a good story

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

After an accident forces her out of the water, a traumatized shark expert finds a possible chance at redemption guiding a thrill-seeker through shark-infested waters only for her worst fears to come back and haunt her.On the whole this was quite a disappointing and barely worthwhile killer shark thriller. That is the biggest issue here with this one, the fact that far too much of this one is an overblown drama about her experience and condition that it stops the film cold to deal with an endless series of uninteresting scenes that do nothing but eat up time. The endless scenes of everyone worrying about her and the stubbornness to get help from them or others really just end up going nowhere as it's not until the clichéd storyline of overdue bills that brings about the end of the funk which is really quite a common theme that it's completely unsurprising to see it being the catalyst for everyone. The scenes of her leading the tour for the group are hardly any more enjoyable and there's a large slew of scenes that are just painful to get through as they banter and tease each other which really shouldn't occur in such a situation as many of the jokes there could potentially lead to injury or death in an accident so there's a lot of questionable motives in place there which just continues the excruciatingly long time this one takes to actually do anything. On top of that, this one again goes for the drama with the out-of-nowhere revelation about the reason for being on the guided tour and really just overall taking this one so far out of the horror realm that it's well over an hour before there's any signs of shark attacks going on. The few glimpses seen here are nothing more than spliced shots from a number of National Geographic-style show specials relating to the creature and generally make for a more engaging and coherent watch than the clumsy way they're edited in here with the action occurring and them re-acting to it from another camera edit, and altogether this makes for some wholly uninteresting and bland experiences. There's a few somewhat decent elements here with this one really showing off a much more realistic and positive image of the creatures than would normally be the case for such a film here, really getting a good chance to look at their lifestyle and grace that they portray in real-life which is a rather enjoyable experience rather than painting them up to be flesh-crazed monsters. It still delves into that territory quite readily with the early attack proving to be completely understandable in terms of setting up her fears and the final half hour is full of great fun with them being forced to survive against the elements and the sharks continually around them, but it's still not quite enough to make it against the other flaws here.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

I do love a good shark flick, I expected this to be cheap and tacky. However it turned out to be really good! great scenes with sharks! epic music and dramatic scenes! more realistic, no dumb characters or stupid moments. Normally shark films are all the same, but this is a real situation that can happen which makes it more fun and scary. Obviously the actors are not huge, apart from Halle, but it all works out. I was really impressed with the shark footage, some very big scary sharks in there! and I believe most of it was real, not cheap cartoon shark swimming around! I also loved the music in the dramatic parts, very epic and loud.It is very underrated, its great!

This film is beautifully shot and despite a rather lacklustre performance by Halle Berry, I found the movie developed a progressively gripping pace with fantastic camera work throughout. No, this is not a Hollywood blockbuster like Deep Blue Sea, however for me what that lacked was the degree of natural realism that this film has in spades. With stunning visuals that we are usually only treated to in the best nature documentaries, I found Dark Tide to be a gripping thriller with some of the finest shark scenes of any film since perhaps Jaws or The Reef.Admittedly, the initial momentum at the opening of the film is somewhat slow however, to develop this character-driven storyline prior to the momentous shark scenes, i felt was this was a price worth paying. In my opinion, those that are harshly scoring this are perhaps missing the true point of the film. Wonderful attention and accuracy is paid to breaking the commonly portrayed Hollywood misconceptions about sharks and I especially loved the note to 'Sharkman', Mike Rutzen in the final credits.Overall some fantastic underwater photography and a cinematically realistic, plausible portrayal of events without the wanton use of CGI so easily used these days. I decided to ignore the rating and i'm glad I did..

I agree with what most said about the Sharks made the movie. I was grateful this didn't try to incorporate some "fake" stuffed or blew up shark and was moved by the beauty in the scenes and especially the great whites.The characters were NOT believable. I am not against Halle Barry, I learned to respect her in The Call. Thought she did that Thriller justice (decent acting). However she was completely cast wrong here. I didn't see her as a shark expert..and was dumbfounded (really DUMB founded) by the dialog? Really, a "Shark Whisperer" with lines like "you have to get right up there and feel them and touch them for them to teach you what you need to learn.."?? Here is another famous Shark Whisperer's knowledge (listen close people, you don't want to miss this).."In order to swim with sharks you need to get near them so they trust you"? That's it. This is why this film failed miserably with me. The DIALOUGE was immature and stupid. it made Halley Barry MORE unbelievable to be in that role. I found her real simple (3to 4 words) here and there in the beginning where she was trying to speak (South African?) or (haitian)? Not sure. Sounded very forced and like she was reading from a card. Was NOT believable she had a second language. The relationship had NO chemistry with the French dude. He really made no sense (i mean literally) couldn't understand him and his mannerisms belonged more in a predictable French horn-dog movie then an action "shark" specialist movie. he didn't fit in his role either.the annoying rich guy was just that ANNOYING. an ENTIRE scene was thrown in that had NOTHING to do with the movie at all when the clam /seal criminals swam "that night"?? No bodies turned up, no fish was identified as "blood hungry" now, they even drove their boat to the very spot and never a word more about that scene (not to mention I couldn't tell what happened it was so dark and disheveled)??? Much of the action scenes I couldn't tell who it was or what was actually happening then it would flash to what we were taught to believe was "Kate" just hovering in the water, gasping for air every 10min then swimming back under water? Scrip should have been more smart and acting and CASTING more believable. I should have learned more of sharks. Halle didn't look to me like a shark woman and the script and lines were too dumb to prove her worthy of being any remote resemblance of a shark expert? You couldn't tell who was who in the water and after she lost her "safety" she continued to dive in with No one to watch her back? What changed for needing a safety? ANd, diving in treacherous water in the pitch BLACK made no NO sense not to mention taking two innocent wacks out in that dangerous patch. Nothing made sense. BUT, the scenery was gorgeous, the sharks were so gorgeous and I wanted yes YEARNED to alteast hear some new information about them (something intellectual and real interest) but everything out of Halle's mouth was stupid talk. I could have made stuff up more interesting and that sounded more SharK "ettiquitte" than her lines. I also didn't see any Love connection..just dis jointed, jittery, almost silly (child like) scenes from the beginning to end (with the guy that first died to her french misfit husband). no real chemistry or sense. I thought she needed time to adjust and yet we see a very short, forced scene where she dives in (again with NO safety) and she is back? The director and whoever wrote the scripts must have been hired off the streets?I loved the beautiful REAL LIFE shark filming. I wouldn't say I hated the movie though but that is because there have been so many MANY MANY horrid, absolute HIDEOUS movies out with blood and guts, bad script and it was refreshing to finally watch a movie with no sex and bad language - THAT was refreshing.