How long is the shallows

Anthony Jaswinski. Top credits Director Jaume Collet-Serra. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Trailer 2. Official Trailer. Clip Story Revised. The Attack. The Line Up. Interview Blake Lively. Lynn Harris. Juame Collet Serra. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Blake Lively Nancy as Nancy. Joseph Salas Surfer as Surfer. Based on tracking data done in certain locations, we know sharks patrol certain areas waiting for seals to haul out on beaches.

Films like Jaws , The Reef , and now The Shallows depict a rogue shark that will stop at nothing to devour its victim. Do "rogue sharks" exist? For example, in Jaws , they say the shark has set up a territory and its going stay as long as there are people to eat.

Not very likely. There are some predators that are willing to put in more effort to track down a single prey, like mountain lions a lot of terrestrial predators are much better at that.

But white sharks have to constantly be moving, which is biologically expensive. It seems like shark encounters are popping up in the news pretty frequently, which is rekindling some serious shark hysteria. Have there actually been more shark attacks or does the media just report on it more often? There are more people in the water than ever before.

That automatically increases the chances of an encounter. In many places, sharks have been overfished for over 50 years. We recognized this problem decades ago and in some places like the U. If you look at the rate of human population growth—which we can use as an indicator of how many people are going in the water everyday—and consider how fast shark populations are growing, people are getting attacked more, but not as much as one might expect given the rate at which both populations are increasing.

What that tells me as a scientist is that we are simply not on their menu. Shark attacks are broken into two categories: provoked and unprovoked. Add to all that some lush, masterful cinematography, and a setting that might as well be a default screensaver of a Microsoft-circa desktop, and you have a film that is, all in all, a visual masterpiece.

The gorgeous visuals, though, are also part of its problem. The Shallows revels, despite its survival-driven storyline, in its various physical beauties—not just those of its setting, but also those of its star. At the outset, when The Shallows is more Blue Crush and less Soul Surfer , we get several slow, languorous, almost-uncomfortably-close-up shots of Lively stripping down to her tiny bikini.

And then zipping that jacket up just enough to tighten her cleavage, but not to cover it. And then, once in the water, straddling her surfboard. Collet-Serra delights in angles that focus on the surface level of the water; what that amounts to when it comes to Lively, however, are a series of crotch shots.

This is a movie, of course, about a lady-surfer; you would expect, given that, a certain amount of lady-surfer-in-her-bathing-suit images. Before she takes a beating from the shark, Nancy takes one from the ocean. She wipes out while surfing, and the camera dutifully—but not at all necessarily—provides several close-up shots of her arms and legs getting pounded against rocks, and of her hair loose, of course tossed by currents in whiplash-y slo-mo. Blake Lively as Mia. Sedona Legge as Chloe.

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