Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Matthew East This film is beautifully shot and despite a rather lacklustre performance by Halle Berry, I found the movie developed a progressively gripping pace with fantastic camera work throughout. No, this is not a Hollywood blockbuster like Deep Blue Sea, however for me what that lacked was the degree of natural realism that this film has in spades. With stunning visuals that we are usually only treated to in the best nature documentaries, I found Dark Tide to be a gripping thriller with some of the finest shark scenes of any film since perhaps Jaws or The Reef.Admittedly, the initial momentum at the opening of the film is somewhat slow however, to develop this character-driven storyline prior to the momentous shark scenes, i felt was this was a price worth paying. In my opinion, those that are harshly scoring this are perhaps missing the true point of the film. Wonderful attention and accuracy is paid to breaking the commonly portrayed Hollywood misconceptions about sharks and I especially loved the note to 'Sharkman', Mike Rutzen in the final credits.Overall some fantastic underwater photography and a cinematically realistic, plausible portrayal of events without the wanton use of CGI so easily used these days. I decided to ignore the rating and i'm glad I did..

adi_2002 Kate has trained for many years to be able to swim with the sharks, he has the ability to sense, feel and when is a good time to join them without hurting you. In one expedition witch was lead by her, a colleague is killed by a shark and she can recover from this so she suspends her activity for almost a year. With bills that keep coming and the access to her boat is threaten, she need a way to pay the bank and recover her properties. Her boyfriend Jeff comes with an idea in witch she accompany a rich man addicted after dangerous sensation along with his son to the sea to swim with the sharks without a cage. She refuses knowing that this type of season is not good for this but with an arrangement of Jeff and without her knowing, agrees to indulge the millionaire. Things goes worst when they decide to go deep in the ocean and a power full storm overturns the boat and now they are in the position where are in the deep water along with dangerous and hungry sharks.Idea is good but unfortunately the movie is boring, the action develops too slow and there are only some good scene that are viewable, those that are underwater. Excepting this the film is quite annoying.

Sydney Luce I agree with what most said about the Sharks made the movie. I was grateful this didn't try to incorporate some "fake" stuffed or blew up shark and was moved by the beauty in the scenes and especially the great whites.The characters were NOT believable. I am not against Halle Barry, I learned to respect her in The Call. Thought she did that Thriller justice (decent acting). However she was completely cast wrong here. I didn't see her as a shark expert..and was dumbfounded (really DUMB founded) by the dialog? Really, a "Shark Whisperer" with lines like "you have to get right up there and feel them and touch them for them to teach you what you need to learn.."?? Here is another famous Shark Whisperer's knowledge (listen close people, you don't want to miss this).."In order to swim with sharks you need to get near them so they trust you"? That's it. This is why this film failed miserably with me. The DIALOUGE was immature and stupid. it made Halley Barry MORE unbelievable to be in that role. I found her real simple (3to 4 words) here and there in the beginning where she was trying to speak (South African?) or (haitian)? Not sure. Sounded very forced and like she was reading from a card. Was NOT believable she had a second language. The relationship had NO chemistry with the French dude. He really made no sense (i mean literally) couldn't understand him and his mannerisms belonged more in a predictable French horn-dog movie then an action "shark" specialist movie. he didn't fit in his role either.the annoying rich guy was just that ANNOYING. an ENTIRE scene was thrown in that had NOTHING to do with the movie at all when the clam /seal criminals swam "that night"?? No bodies turned up, no fish was identified as "blood hungry" now, they even drove their boat to the very spot and never a word more about that scene (not to mention I couldn't tell what happened it was so dark and disheveled)??? Much of the action scenes I couldn't tell who it was or what was actually happening then it would flash to what we were taught to believe was "Kate" just hovering in the water, gasping for air every 10min then swimming back under water? Scrip should have been more smart and acting and CASTING more believable. I should have learned more of sharks. Halle didn't look to me like a shark woman and the script and lines were too dumb to prove her worthy of being any remote resemblance of a shark expert? You couldn't tell who was who in the water and after she lost her "safety" she continued to dive in with No one to watch her back? What changed for needing a safety? ANd, diving in treacherous water in the pitch BLACK made no NO sense not to mention taking two innocent wacks out in that dangerous patch. Nothing made sense. BUT, the scenery was gorgeous, the sharks were so gorgeous and I wanted yes YEARNED to alteast hear some new information about them (something intellectual and real interest) but everything out of Halle's mouth was stupid talk. I could have made stuff up more interesting and that sounded more SharK "ettiquitte" than her lines. I also didn't see any Love connection..just dis jointed, jittery, almost silly (child like) scenes from the beginning to end (with the guy that first died to her french misfit husband). no real chemistry or sense. I thought she needed time to adjust and yet we see a very short, forced scene where she dives in (again with NO safety) and she is back? The director and whoever wrote the scripts must have been hired off the streets?I loved the beautiful REAL LIFE shark filming. I wouldn't say I hated the movie though but that is because there have been so many MANY MANY horrid, absolute HIDEOUS movies out with blood and guts, bad script and it was refreshing to finally watch a movie with no sex and bad language - THAT was refreshing.

bradroxbury Pros: Halle Berry's Body, South Africa footage, Shark Footage Cons:No Plot, Boring, Predictable, No sympathy for any charactersBottomline: If your waiting trial in Thailand for those silly drugs you had in your cavity, sure give it a watch. Otherwise watch Swordfish again(wink! Wink!)By submitting this review you are agreeing to the terms laid out in our Copyright Statement. Your submission must be your own original work. Your review will normally be posted on the site within 2-3 business days. Reviews that do not meet the guidelines will not be posted. Please write in English only. HTML or boards mark-up is not supported though paragraph breaks will be inserted if you leave a blank line between paragraph.