shark feast

Rating: 7/10 (18 December 2007)

The acting was fantastic, the scenes of the countryside were breathtaking, the dialog was great in places, with authentic idiomatic touches (I'm from the southwest and it was very familiar sounding). However, the plot became boring to my husband and me, because except for a few scenes, the violent tone was so monotonously uniform and the extreme tension so almost continuously relentless that the effect was to render us numb by about half way through. As a result we ceased really caring what happened.
There is very little thematic subtlety or complexity. Good man (sherriff) is pursuing Bad man (psychopath) who is killing everyone who gets in his way while he is pursuing Everyman (combination-of-good-and-evil).
The overall effect of the plot thus seemed to us about as entertaining as watching a 2 hour documentary of a shark picking off shipwreck victims one by one. I gave it a 7 only because the acting is so first-rate.