The master touch

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 1998)

Spielberg takes a novel that is nothing more than a poor man's MOBY DICK and turns the story into a real monster horror film which is all the more effective because it is realistic.
The power of the film comes from the fact that we are made to get down to those deepest and scariest of emotions: fear of the unknown and fear of the unseen. The shark thus becomes the boogie man of all our nightmares. We want to wake up -- but not before a genuine thrill.