Old-School Masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2016)

Jaws (1975) was directed by Steven Spielberg and it based on the novel written by Peter Benchley of the same name. It's and old blockbuster and still one of the most famous movies ever released. It's a thriller set on Amity Island, which is a fictional summer resort island in New England.
The story is about a great white sharks who terrorizes people on the 4th of July on Amity Island. Three victims get eaten before someone takes the situation in their hands. Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) the sheriff of the island, Quint (Robert Shaw) an army veteran with an astonishing shark killing career, and Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) an oceanographer with great knowledge on sharks form a crew and head with a ship to hunt the beast down. It gets more complicated than what they thought it would be and face many difficulties during their hunt.
The well known Jaws soundtrack when the shark approaches the victim is one of the golden attributes of the movie, and the thing that probably even the new generations well know. But other than that little detail, the whole movie is just brilliant. The actors really give us a heartwarming feeling while on the boat, they express their passion for their jobs really well, and they really look like they are putting an effort into catching the great white.
Being a 20th century movie, i was thrilled every time the shark got to show itself on the camera, which is something hard to accomplish with the technology they had at the time. I think that if the movie would have come out at the present time it would have the same success as it had back in they day, being a masterpiece in all aspects.
I would recommend the movie to all the movie-lovers that wish to see the old-timers" and that don't mind seeing the screen in a retro way. Definitely still the best shark movie out there.