One for the Ages

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2002)

I've seen Jaws a couple of times but it never wears out. That's always an
indication for a good movie. I'd also go as far to say that Jaws is as much a perfect movie as you will ever see. Acting, Story, Score, Direction.

This one's got it all. People who complain that it's not believable should ask themselves why they go to the movies in the first place. Why bother to watch Star Wars or Indiana Jones or the Matrix. Because those movies allow you to escape the real world for a few hours and take you to another place where you don't ask if it's plausible or not. Jaws does the same thing. And in my opinion it does it better than any other movie I have yet seen. So many movies touch you, make
you cry, scare you, make you laugh. But Jaws not only scares you it scars you for the rest of your life. I'm 28 years old now, I first saw Jaws when I was seven or eight, and I will never ever forget it. Now I jump out of planes as a skydiver, I jump off buildings as a bungee jumper, I race cars in my free time, but not a million horses will get me into the open sea again. Show me another movie that can do that to you.