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This movie’s gradual evolution from the utterly mundane to the existentially bleak is tough to shake afterward. A wide open space has rarely felt more claustrophobic.
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Based on True Events First of all, this looked like it was shot on an iPhone 3GS. Shark movies are so bad but damn they’re so entertaining especially when you watch it with people. This is why I will never do some wild shit like swim with sharks. Why would you want to do that? I don’t get it. I’m fine on land. I have enough threats to die on land, why would I want to increase my chances of death by swimming with some damn sharks?
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1. Jaws 2. The Shallows 3. Deep Blue Sea 4. 47 Meters Down … 936. Open Water
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Massive issue with this film. Meant to be based on a true story about 2 people stranded in the middle of the ocean that end up dead. If this is the case then no one has any idea what reall happened. The only two true events are that they didnt get back on the boat and they died. That mean anything could have happened, including being taken to a dolphin underwater fortress before being killed by over excited star fish. I wanted to go skiing.
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Hooptober 5.0: Film 28/33 Jesus! That was fucking harrowing. Films like this, and Frozen, make me so bloody glad that I don’t do “exciting” things like scuba diving or skiing. Every once in a while, a horror film comes along that presents a scenario so frighteningly real, and entirely plausible. A film that sidesteps your defenses and bypasses the notion that it’s only a movie. A film that presents the viewer with a scenario so horrifying that a swift death would be preferable. But more importantly, a scenario that could easily happen and, in this case, did happen. Based loosely on the story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went out with a scuba diving group on the…
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It was like a really boring home movie that went on far too long. Daniel was absolutely useless. All project, no passion. I’d have left them behind too, boring as shit couple. Not even that interesting of a shark either really.
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“The school of jellyfish featured in the movie showed up on the day the crew planned to film that particular scene; it was not switched to film that scene on behalf of the jellyfish. Coincidentally, after that day, no jellyfish ever appeared on location for the whole duration of the shoot.”
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I’m not usually one to ever judge on subpar or lazy cinematography, but for real, was this filmed on a Nintendo DS??
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dès que y’a un truc que t’aimes bien y’a toujours j un film pour te faire flipper c’est bon
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gente que stress, odiei foi filmado numa nintendo btw
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I thought the couple had good chemistry, I liked them. More realistic shark representation which is appreciated. Not sure how I feel about the ending
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Oodaugust 8 月 21, 2026
Crazy how irl the boat that forgot them was manned by white guys… guess they thought audiences wouldnt believe in white male incompetence…
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Trauma y Lección de vida, esta película me enseñó a que no debo confiar ciegamente en que no vaya a haber un error.
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Kısa diye açtım.Köpek balığı filmlerini sevdiğim doğrudur ama bu diğerlerine göre kötüydü.Filmin çekimleri de garipti sonu da saçma bitti.
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Boring and so poorly acted. How are people saying this is suspenseful? There isn’t a single suspenseful moment in the whole film. Nothing noteworthy even happens until the last 15 minutes. Might be the dullest shark movie I’ve ever seen.
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Bravo pour l’effort d’avoir mis de vrais requins, c’est juste con qu’on les voit 2min et qu’on s’emmerde à mort le reste du temps.
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Low budget, ugly to look at, and the acting isn’t that great. But I still enjoyed it as you can see the passion for film shine and just gave me a lot of anxiety throughout.
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прикольный фильм, основной козырь – реалистичность
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Meglio di molti film sugli squali, ma di sicuro non è bello.
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0 horror personalmente noioso
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A good shark movie. Nice plot and ending was different.
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filmed on a sea cucumber
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Skräp helt och hållet s.k.r.ä.p Att fylla min hajfilms lista kommer döda mig en vacker dag Hajfilmer rankade
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I felt the suspense. If it weren’t shot from a camera potato with the found footage look, I would not have felt the suspense. I think it helped the film. She was right, about them doing everything late. She was also right about swimming. And skiiing.
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Interesting film but the camerawork does not hold up . Looks like I’m watching The Room
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como advertencia esta película se rodó teniendo en mente usar cámaras digitales de 2003, la otra es que si bien se basa en una historia real nunca se concluyo nada así que todo lo que pasa en el relato no esta atado a algún hecho y pudo ser modificado para hacerlo mas interesante. a mi me gusta el inicio, los cortes de cámara y todo el trabajo visual porque me recuerda esos documentales viejos y se siente mas real, siento…
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Gwad damn.
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🌊 The Ocean Has Never Felt This Empty Open Water is a perfect example of how a simple premise can become genuinely terrifying when it feels believable. There are no elaborate set pieces, no huge action sequences, and very little spectacle. It is just two people stranded in the middle of the ocean, slowly realizing that nobody knows they are missing. What makes the movie work so well is the sense of isolation. The open sea becomes almost like a…
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Oddly inconsistent home camera gimmick, gratuitous nude scene with carefully placed sheet, kinda gross ending….alrighty then.
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Should have just watched paint dry instead.
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Such a scary scenario omg
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Ok I saw this at a drive in theater in 2004, it was a double feature night, the first movie was Without a Paddle which I obviously loved as a 10 yr old. Then there was this movie that I think my parents had zero knowledge of what it was and you can’t rlly leave in the middle of a movie without like distracting everyone with your headlights and shit SO we powered through as a family and hated every…
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Hermana, ya solo con el hecho de haberme dejado botada en medio del océano me lanzaría a la boca de los tiburones para no vivir un segundo más.
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brave choice to shoot this movie on a toaster given all the water splashing around
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Only thing I can admire about the movie is how they used real sharks and fish the whole movie through. Pretty cool, dudeee. Yea that’s it, the director just wanted the woman to be naked for no reason or plot to the story. Super weird. Never adressed it. Just whole frontal… Nude. Just strange, I see you Chris… Kentis… I see who you really are. No slippery slope out of this one mr writer, director and EDITOR. You suck at all those things, goodbye. Ps: Poor couple didn’t desserve their adaptation of the most traumatic day of their life by this shitty film😭
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A slow burn, middle of the road shark thriller. DIY film making is competent, there’s just not enough going on to make this scary. The pair are just floating in the water most of the movie, no gripping dialogue, a jellyfish encounter with a few sharks who dont do much. Credit for using real sharks but I just dont find this very entertaining
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sometimes all you need is a digi cam and a dream
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This surprise low budget hit doesn’t really work for me like it did for the audience on release but it’s a great success story in its own right. To be applauded.
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not my kind of shark movie in the slightest.
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İyi ki 23 yıl önce sinemada izlememişim.
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That full boob and bush shot, and the fact that this movie was recorded on a literal airpod had me thinking this was a porno at first
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Bush on main & Shark Week
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I wonder what they spent the $500,000 budget on but I know for sure it wasn’t camera quality or cinematography
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I love a movie that makes me think about the nature of water – it’s temperature, it’s power, it’s salinity, all that it contains in an ocean, etc. often artfully shot, tense, and terrifying. A gem!
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well this wasn’t as stupid of a shark movie as i thought it would be
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Just proves how stupid Americans are
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worst shi i’ve ever seen
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I’m sorry but this is just the serious version of the flaws of the buddy system in that one The Simpsons joke in the “learn to fart” episode
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melhor do que eu estava esperando
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I can’t describe this movie any better than this message from my brother: The plot is literally: 1) we r goin on holiday, yay! 2) tits. For some reason? 3) boat trip! :3 4) hehe diving to see fishies 5) silly time!! ^-^ 6) uh oh, where da boat gone?? 7) open water 8) our water, it’s open 9) this is freaky a shit bro, we’re fucking stranded in OPEN WATER 10) oopsie, shark! :3 Parts 6, 7, 8 & 9 drag on sooo long you actually celebrate their demise.
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The low budget does show, but once they get in the water it’s a fantastic film.
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Open Water (2004) was a massive letdown. Promoted as the best shark movie since Jaws, it fails to deliver on almost every level. Instead of thrilling survival horror, you’re stuck watching two people drift endlessly while waiting for something -anything- to happen. Even when a shark finally strikes, it bites once, draws blood, and casually swims away (when does that happen??), completely deflating whatever minimal tension was built up. I kept holding out hope for a big payoff or an exciting turn of events, but it ended up being one of the most tedious, anti-climactic movie experiences imaginable. Hated it. Do not recommend
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Open water feels like some perv is trying to record all of this without getting caught. You’ll see what I mean or know what I’m taking about if you’ve watched this. Why is there so many extreme closeups? Annoyingly out of focus and poorly shot. Characters are rarely in frame. Did the directors kid do the cinematography? The acting is bad for most of the film until the climax. Open water is sold on being realistic and I’ll give it…
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It’s boring, I don’t care about the characters, and I think I could film it better on a flip phone.
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claro, una peli de los 2000 donde un negro no sabe contar y es culpa de él que dejaran a la parejita en medio de la nada. De paso, 0 realista, la primera regla del buceo es no te separes del grupo.
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This was so stressful
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a film about the most incompetent diving instructor shot on a cardboard box, but i enjoyed it
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I think this was filmed on a potato, very cool
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Feel like the behind the scenes would make for a better movie. Impressive what they achieved with a limited budget. However that is all the praise I can give for this film.
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Why was this movie shot like a mid-90s porno?? I was so excited for this to be scary but it was awful and completely stupid, under 90 mins and still too long, really one of the worst things I’ve seen. Truly terrible and not even in a ‘let’s watch a bad movie’ kind of way, it’s very dumb and poorly done for a story that should be harrowing.
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Moon jellies dont sting- more so they could NOT get through a wet suit
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You see what happens when you just go along to get along with your dumbass boyfriend.
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They die at the end, idgaf
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Clearly shot with the first-ever camera phone. Also, never have and now never will go scuba diving.
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Vvytux_ 8 月 9, 2026
1996 metu scream movie buvo geresnes kokybes ir didesnio biudzeto negu whatever this was. lowkey 50 euru max biudzeta turejo ir filmavo su telefonu, vos ne pornas gavos
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Aartfulcosmos 8 月 9, 2026
bleak, effective survival horror. does a great job of capturing the terrifying scale of the ocean
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Cool micro budget movie.
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one word: BLEAK the first ever shark movie i saw and it terrified me for 25 years. knowing it’s based on tom & eileen lonergan is extra horrifying
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KKelly 8 月 8, 2026
Okay so the start of Shark Saturday has not gone well. I cannot watch this movie, the way it has been filmed is so bad. I get it they made it on a budget and for that I cannot rate this movie, especially as I got like 5 minutes into it.
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The characters suck and the movie is mostly bad but the last 15 minutes are dope as eff! So it gets a extra star
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plotwist
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I’m not going to look up what actually happened just yet so I don’t feel too icky about liking this movie.
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more depressing than anything to be honest based on a true story is wild – never going scuba diving that’s for sure
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nightmare
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I woulda swam and lived
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Ce qui est dommage c’est que le film est plutôt bien mais vu que l’histoire de base il n’y a pas grand chose à raconter bah le film raconte donc pas grand chose puis avec le manque de budget c’est compliqué de combler
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I could’ve taken em
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Assim, mesmo sabendo que o filme foi feito com um orçamento muito baixo, dava para esperar mais. A maior parte é só eles parados, sem ação nenhuma, o que torna ele bem entediante. E tipo, como que eles não perceberam antes que faltava esses dois? Plmd né. O final foi meio deprimente, mds.
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maybe the greatest movie of all time. perfect for date night!
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Rarely, but sometimes, a movie can have an actual physical effect on you. It gets under your defenses and sidesteps the “it’s only a movie” reflex and creates a visceral feeling that might as well be real. “Open Water” had that effect on me. So did “Touching the Void,” the mountain climbing movie from earlier in 2004. After both movies were over, I felt the need to go outside and walk in the sunshine and try to cheer myself up.…
- Synopsis
- Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
- Director
- Chris Kentis
- Studio
- Plunge Pictures LLC, Lions Gate Films, EastGate Films
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2003
- Runtime
- 80 mins
- USA26 Oct 2003
- USA16 Jan 2004
- USA11 Jun 2004
- USA17 Jun 2004
- New Zealand15 Jul 2004
- New Zealand24 Jul 2004
- USA06 Aug 2004
- Italy13 Aug 2004
- Mexico15 Oct 2004
- France11 Aug 2004
- Spain13 Aug 2004
- USA20 Aug 2004
- Singapore26 Aug 2004
- UK10 Sep 2004
- Hong Kong16 Sep 2004
- Greece17 Sep 2004
- Germany30 Sep 2004
- Austria01 Oct 2004
- Philippines06 Oct 2004
- Australia14 Oct 2004
- Poland15 Oct 2004
- Philippines20 Oct 2004
- Israel21 Oct 2004
- Finland29 Oct 2004
- Belgium10 Nov 2004
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