Faux-shark technology may have advanced by leaps and bounds since “Jaws,” but even in the era of Shark Week, “Sharknado” and Trolli sour-watermelon shark candies, “The Shallows” suggests that the lessons of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster hold as true as they did in 1975.
But she meets all the requirements of this high-concept one-woman show and then some: intense physical stamina, some stunt-double-abetted surfing, and the ability to look good in a bikini from every possible angle.īetter still, she effortlessly holds her own opposite a computer-generated chomper that the director Jaume Collet-Serra is smart enough to keep mostly hidden until the noisy, fiery, hilariously over-the-top (and under-the-bottom) finale. You will see Lively do richer, subtler acting in the future (as early as next month, when Woody Allen’s “Café Society” arrives in theaters). If Hollywood has seemed slow to appreciate this talented actress (the popularity of the CW’s now-defunct “Gossip Girl” notwithstanding), the tide would appear to be turning on the evidence of this efficiently pared-down B-movie showcase, whose taut suspense and fat-free narrative seem to have been conceived along the same lines as its star’s enviable musculature.
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But enough about “Finding Dory.” If you’re looking for a quick and satisfying summer thrill - a reminder that all you really need to make a movie is a girl and a flare gun - then the aptly titled Blake Lively-vs.-shark thriller “The Shallows” should serve you nicely.
There’s an excellent movie now in theaters: a deeply moving adventure about a traumatized young female who plunges into unfamiliar waters and experiences terror and salvation by way of some computer-generated marine life.
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