A good adventure story

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2005)

Jaw stars Roy Schieder as the police chief of a coastal resort town that is being terrorized by a giant killer shark. He enlists the help of a marine biologist Richard Dreyfuss and they hire a crusty sailor Quint (Robert Shaw) to go out, find the shark and kill it.
The first part of the movie takes place in the town and on the beach as people get attacked. The second part is on the boat as they hunt down the shark.
By today's standards Jaws in pretty tame but it was considered very scary when it premiered. It's still a good adventure story and worth seeing. The mechanical Jaws shark was a marvel of movie puppetry at the time. Spielberg has the good sense not to show too much of it which would ruin the effect. The ending is very suspenseful.
Robert Shaw is especially good as the WWII survivor of DDay.
Jaws is probably Spielberg's best film along with Raiders of the Lost Ark.