The Best Film Ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (25 June 2004)

Jaws is the best film ever made. It's that simple. It's the best use a movie camera has ever been put to. Steven Spielberg is a genius and that's just a fact.
Everyone knows the shoot was chaotic, the script constantly in flux, the actors unsure of themselves and the crew seasick. Everyone knows the robotic shark frequently sank. And none of it, in the end, mattered because Jaws is the best film ever made and it's that simple.
It's the film that made me want to make films and it's the film I've watched more times than any other. I can still remember my Mum constantly reassuring my brother that "It's only a film" when we first saw it on a Friday night on TV (probably it's UK network debut as my brother and I were very young). I've never forgotten it, the pure power of cinema in the hands of a genius really hitting his stride for the first time in his career.