One terrific, suspenseful and outstanding film

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2000)

"Jaws" is one of Steven Spielberg's best films to date, and it still manages to scare the hell out of people ever since it's release 25 years ago. The plot has a great white shark terrorizing the summer resort town of Amity around the 4th of July. Chief Brody (Roy Schieder) leads an investigation and closes down the beaches after a young woman was found dismembered, but Mayor Vaughn (Larry Hamilton) objects to closing them down because the town would lose money. After several more people die, a young Icthyologist (Richard Dreyfuss), a weird fisherman (Robert Shaw) and Chief Brody team up and set out to destroy the shark before he decides to make the Amity tourists his meals. The interaction between the three leading players is nothing less than perfect. They laugh, they fight, they yell, they each have their respective differences but you all relate to them in some way. Each of them do a terrific job. The music is tense, and also became famous over the years, being parodied and imitated in numerous films and TV shows. Spielberg did a fantastic job of scaring people to go into the water and I only wish the sequels did as good of a job as this classic did.