Takes your fear of the water and makes it a lot worse...

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2002)

This film is the grand-daddy of all action adventure movies. This is the one that started it all. This bad boy is the founder of the genre! Every action adventure made in the last thirty years that has to do with a creature attacking and killing people was inspired by this movie right here! Steven Speilberg's ultimate creation in fear, JAWS spawned one of the greatest world-wide phenomenons ever and got some people so scared of the water, that they haven't gone in since they saw it in 1975. Speilberg's gem that got him several Academy Award nominations, JAWS was way ahead of its time. The world was not ready for such a movie. But since it came, the people were satisfied and were loving it!
Peter Benchly most likely never guessed that 30 years later, people would still be talking about this movie. Or that it would even have been a hit in the first place. So, next time you see this movie on TV, or the next time you pop it in your VCR, I want you to get on your knees, bow to the TV and pledge yourself to the grandfather of action adventure movies.
JAWS gets 5/5.