I'd think twice before going to the beach on summer vacation

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2003)

1975 introduced "Jaws" where not only did it make Steven Spielberg a star as a director but made blockbuster history where we'd never thought nature would bring fear to a whole new world.
The film starts out with a pair of young people who meet at the beach while everybody else is having a good time. The young love birds decide to go skinny dipping on the beach where after the young guy falls flat on the sand beaches too drunk to follow, his female companion goes into the cold water in the dark where she swims out too far before feeling something underwater and being pulled under to her death.
The next morning Amity police chief Brody (Roy Schinder) gets a phone call about the missing girl before heading to the beach. He meets up with the young lover's boy not until they see that what remains on the beach is parts of the victim where she's been devoured to death. Nobody believes Chief Brody that it was a shark attack as the mayor (Murry Hamilton) and everybody else hides it until an incident at the beach claims a boy's life where he's eaten in whole.
With a reward at stake and a funeral to be arrange, all the shark hunters including local tough guy Quint (Robert Shaw) want a piece of the action to kill the animal; however Quint doesn't want a name for himself since he's already got a rep for demanding too much including getting all of the money the town makes in tourism and other stuff. Also invited on board is marine biologist Matt Hopper (Richard Dreyfuss) who is not convinced that the shark the first hunters killed is the actual beast where he's still on the loose.
It's not until the mayor decides to open up the beach on The Fourth of July weekend where the shark returns to the kitchen to get more snacks and almost killing Chief Brody's eldest son where it now becomes a personal vendetta for the chief where he hires Quint and Hooper to go after the shark. From there "Jaws" becomes an adventure filled with energy and thrills to make you jump out of your seat and go back for more.
I bet it'll make you think twice before going to the beaches.