a tale of 2 halves

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2002)

Some Spoilers
i liked the beach, for the first 75 minutes. The beginning is strong and well written and really gets one into the story. I found Richards search for paradise moving, as i have personally been through the same sort of search for some time. anyway the entire movie was great until he killed the shark. it was at this point that the movie took a real downhill turn and stopped making sense. seeing the ultimate demise of "paradise" made little sense to me and the video game graphics were terrible. i honestly found the pot farmers to be an unnecessary part to the movie. i didnt read the book but it was unbelievable to see such a great movie turn into such a bad movie so quickly.