I lined up..

Rating: 8/10 (4 September 2001)

..with the rest of the world when this came out. Its been on cable quite often but not until yesterday did I see the entire thing uncut and uninterupted.
Its a good movie, not classic, but solid entertainment with some thrills and some things best overlooked. Spielberg created some excellent suspense but some of the deaths are horribly overlooked, they seem to just have happened to move the plot along. Its hard to believe that a beach community would think twice about closing down a beach with known great white sharks in the area, so to make that feasible, it gets laid on the politicians, who are greedy and untrustworthy in every single movie since time memorial.

This is very timely right now, in this 'Summer of Sharks' here in the US. Each time someone gets attacked its all over the press; two people died this past Labor Day weekend and of course their families were all over the news, being continually insulted and exploited by the press. On the other side of the coin, you get 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley on CNN proclaiming that the sharks are more often the victim than the predator, so its just easier to ignore it all and say a prayer.