DUH DA DUH DA . . . . .

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2004)

Now matter how much I watch this movie, I always feel that is is so underrated.
As soon as the movie opens, students scattered on the beach and the young lady decides to go swimming . . . it has MASTERPIECE written all over it.
They couldn't use a mechanical shark more than they (Speilberg & Co)would have liked to - it kept breaking down and sinking. All this stuff is now pure Hollywood Legend.
The acting is superb: Scheider down-plays his role as an everyday working man and pulls it off Big Time. He really is one heck of an actor, and incredibly underrated.
Richard Dreyfuss over-plays his role and pulls it off very nicely. He is funny and in-your-face without ever being annoying.
Robert Shaw . . . . he over-plays it and . . . well, he's like a cartoon character. I have never ever liked him. Firstly, you can't even here a word he says, and when he does say something half-audible, it's a loud of old clichéd nonsense.
He is the only dodgy thing about this movie (well, apart from Bruce, of course). The pacing is awesome, the directing unique and the first ever summer blockbuster.
The greatest thing is, though, that you can watch this movie day-in and day-out and it never gets boring.
Now THAT'S what a call a proper suspense movie.