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This was just another terrible shark thriller - low budget and production with a stupid plot. The only factors that kept me from giving it one star were the decent action scenes, Jon Seda's performance, the lack of unnecessary sex that is typical to these films, and Richard Dreyfuss giving a spiel about shark conservation during the credits. Save yourself an hour and twenty minutes and watch the trailer instead; it contains the best parts of the movie. If filmmakers can do dinosaurs well then why can't they get shark movies right? Until someone can make shark cgi look believable let's stop wasting millions of dollars shooting these movies.

I'm glad I waited to read the reviews for Great White until after I watched it because despite the horrendous ratings people gave I throughly enjoyed it. My one complaint is how horrible the CGI shark was in its introduction scene. I don't know exactly what the budget was but from what I read it was minuscule. Once I found out that the budget was tiny I was no longer bothered by that one clip of the poorly done CGI shark. I imagine majority of the budget went into the cast and cinematography. The film is visually stunning; the scenery is vivid and the characters are attractive. One of the actresses was actually voted Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire in 2011.

I wasn't expecting much from The Reef: Stalked based on its ratings, but to my pleasant surprise it was excellent. Not only do the emotions actually feel real, but the shark looks real. I thoroughly enjoyed the backstory because it was more realistic and had more substance than the typical shark movie. It's difficult to find even daytime tv that isn't raunchy, so the lack of sex and nudity was refreshing. I hope the rest of the films directed by Andrew Traucki are nearly this good. I'd be interested to see what other movies the main characters are in; their acting was (thankfully) surprisingly believable.