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(1 - 50) of 50 OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh Page   1   A- "Open Water depends on the audience to be able to vicariously place themselves in the situation at hand, and if you can do that, you're in for a nerve-frying treat."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 8/10 "A horrifying meditation on how contentment can lull us into complacency, detachment, and ultimately, absolute isolation."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens "Though it has been repeatedly called a scary movie, Open Water isn't very."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs "Though it has been repeatedly called a scary movie, Open Water isn't very."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "[It's] perhaps the most boring thriller you will ever see that will still manage to thrill you like crazy."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius C- "I was rooting for the sharks."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 1.5/4 "Open Water muddies a compelling subject matter via shoddy and incompetent filmmaking. A shallow and frustrating exercise in treading water."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth B- "Effectively evokes a sense of the tragic. "   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "A sharply recorded and realized picture of what lurks beneath 'our' surface."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 2.5/4 "A jittery, unapologetic experience worth a look for those who prefer psychological horror over broad slasher cliches."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "When Susan wonders if it’s scarier seeing or not seeing the sharks around them, she may as well be talking to the audience."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 2/5 "Lo mismo ya lo dijo, mucho mejor, Steven Spielberg hace 30 años."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "Its positives outweigh its negatives; certainly it will send shivers up the spine of anyone who has ever been out on the open water and thought about the dangers down below."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "Will likely get the second wave of aquatic aficionados out of the water."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A- "Whether or not anyone enjoys it, few will fail to describe it as a 'nailbiter.' That it certainly is."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "Rarely as gripping as it wants to be; for the most part it treads water just as its lead characters do."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "Open Water is not the terror masterpiece that many are claiming it to be. "   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat A- "The filmmakers' remarkable storytelling is not lost amidst the terrors of the deep; what emerges is a glimpse into the psychological struggle when faced with unwinnable odds."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "Despite its flaws, I welcome Open Water with great enthusiasm, because it offers genuine scares and chills without the self-aware, packaged feel of many horror/thriller films."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "as terrifying as anything you're likely to see this year, but not in the manner you might expect"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "Digital video tale of two against nature has a certain B-movie charm, but it's easy to be more impressed than enthralled."   Netflix   James Rocchi 4/5 "an expertly modulated horror movie"   Los Angeles Alternative   Jay Antani 3/4 "Writer/director Chris Kentis ekes genuine tension from little more than a pair of luckless yuppies and a relentless, unforgiving body of water."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "What's ... fascinating is the extra step the movie takes to show how the couple is too shiftless and wrongheaded even to try and survive."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "In the end, the film is a cheat. The scares don’t work and well, really, there’s nothing else there to work."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 7/10 "...don't go into this movie expecting to 'jump out of your skin'..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "Open Water proves that in the right hands, with the right actors and premise, effective thrillers films don't have to cost an arm and a leg."   Light Views   John Larsen 6/10 "A film made for around $200,000 which looks like a film made for around $210,000."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/4 "'Creatividad y un guión inteligente reemplazan la falta de presupuesto para crear un producto de buena calidad' "   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 4.5/5 "The characters feel real, the setting feels wet, & the fatal mistakes feel huge. I was scared out of my wits, but it was highly enjoyable, and very well executed."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 5/5 "Open Water is an excellent film because of its visceral simplicity."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B "This 'body clench' of a movie relies only on its stars' ability to brave the waters with scores of real reef and bull sharks...to achieve its scares"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/5 "An ingenious triumph of imagination over budget."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 8/10 "Low-budget and sparse, but very effective."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 1.5/4 "The characters are so badly drawn that we don't empathize with them"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[S]uspenseful, refreshingly clean and simple, with a hard edge of realism that is quietly horrifying..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/4 "What makes Open Water an exemplary thriller is that it’s rooted in humanity."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 2.5/5 "more teasing than terrifying, failing to achieve the nerve-wracking suspense that his concept (and the movie’s buzz) suggests"   Filmcritic.com   Nick Schager 5/5 "Funciona não apenas como um suspense exemplar, mas principalmente como um estudo sobre a fragilidade do Homem diante da Natureza e sobre a maneira com que enxergamos a morte."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3.5/5 "This micro-budget suspense film generates more actual tension than nine out of 10 Hollywood thrillers."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "Don't go to this film expecting to be thrilled, excited or frightened ... Expect to feel what it is like to be on the wrong end of the food chain."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 4.5/5 "Open Water is horribly and blissfully intense, the sort of grass-roots thriller that will have you squirming in your seat as each successive dorsal fin breaks the waves"   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg "We, the audience, shuffle out of the theater, feeling drained and punished."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 8/10 "Despite its low-budget, it's undoubtedly the most terrifying film of the summer!"   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 3.5/4 "Genuinely frightening and tightly constructed thriller, which holds you till the final frame."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 2/4 "An obvious successor to The Blair Witch Project that is neither as imaginative nor as existentially terrifying."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 7/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel D Read review   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 50) of 50 OFCS Rating: 72% Fresh Page   1