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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 269507" data-attributes="member: 23">Dark Tide (2012) [MEDIA=youtube]0ipC-bjnH4A[/MEDIA] My first time with this. I'd procrastinated around viewing it, partly because the reviews are terrible, but I'm glad I kept a healthy dose of scepticism about them. It wasn't such a bad film in my opinion. Certainly not deserving of the battering it seems to have taken from critics and viewers. It seems it's often fashionable to criticise Halle Berry's acting or choices of vehicle. Sometimes that may be warranted, but neither is the case here. She's fine in the role and the film itself It's far from your typical "shark film", which perhaps explains why some were disappointed. If you're expecting fast-paced glossy thrills with a shark attack every seven minutes you'll be disappointed. The shark sequences use real Great Whites as far as I can tell and are documentary-like. The sharks aren't mindless beasts that attack left, right and centre. They're not even particularly interested in the people and their boat until they're attracted. It just happens that some people insist on behaving in ways that invite an attack. I liked that the film credits ended with a few facts about sharks, with a proper perspective about the low threat level to humans, the huge threat to sharks from man and the shark's crucial role in maintaining healthy oceans.</blockquote>

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