This is a direct to DVD sequel to the movie "The Reef" which was a pretty good shark film from a few years ago. I tend to like shark films, so when Shudder recommended that I check this movie out, I was all over that suggestion. Sometimes these things turn out well and sometimes they end horribly, So it was a gamble, but I decided to give this movie a chance.
The movie is about a woman who endures a tragedy and decides to take a reef diving trip with friends a year later as a way to heal. Unfortunately, she and her friends soon find themselves fighting for their lives against a great white shark. I hate it when that happens.
Aussie accents are fun. The cute accents are the first thing I noticed about this movie. The second is that the movie doesn't shy away from putting its main character through the ringer. She suffers a horrible loss in the first ten minutes of the movie, which is handled well, and then she gets besieged by a big, mean shark. Bummer. The main character suffers from PTSD bgecause of a traumatic event that we witness at the beginninng of the movie, and as someone who suffers from PTSD and flashbacks, I'd say the way the novie portrays these things is spot on, which I appreciated. I liked the main character, even when she's kind of a jerk to her friends later on in the movie, because I could relate to her struggles and I understood where she was coming from. The movie is really a sequel in name only, since it doesn't have anything to do with the original The Reef (except for those pesky sharks) but like the "in name only" sequel Open Water 2: Adrift, this is an enjoyable movie. I'm scared of drowning, so the fears of the water that this movie induces work for me, and the gore from the shark attacks is pretty well-done. Overall this movie isn't anything to write home about, but I did enjoy the hour and a hald of solid entertainment it provided for me.
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