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PARADISE BEACH - DENTRO L'INCUBO

The Shallows

2016 AU HMDB
giugno 24, 2016

Una giovane donna si ritroverà ad affrontare uno degli incubi peggiori di sempre: dispersa in alto mare, con solo una boa come sostegno, dovrà difendersi da un terribile squalo bianco che sorveglia le acque che la separano dalla riva.

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Produzione: Matti Leshem (Producer)Lynn Harris (Producer)Douglas C. Merrifield (Executive Producer)Jaume Collet-Serra (Executive Producer)
Sceneggiatura: Anthony Jaswinski (Screenplay)
Musica: Marco Beltrami (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Flavio Martínez Labiano (Director of Photography)

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Nancy è una giovane studentessa americana che decide di andare in vacanza in Messico per recarsi in una spiaggia isolata dove era solita andare sua madre scomparsa di recente. Accompagnata in macchina da un uomo del posto e lasciata sola dall’amica ancora reduce dai postumi di una sbornia, la bella turista giunge nel luogo incantevole e inizia a cavalcare le gigantesche onde con il suo surf, la sua vera grande passione. Paesaggio da urlo e divertimento senza freni sembrano fungere da protagoniste di una giornata da sogno per Nancy fino a quando accade un evento che sconvolgerà la sua permanenza e metterà a rischio la sua vita: la ragazza, infatti, si avvicina ad un grande animale marino ucciso a morsi da un enorme e famelico squalo bianco che interpreta il gesto della surfista come un tentativo di invadere il suo territorio di caccia. Ha così inizio il più classico dei duelli all’ultimo sangue tra uomo e natura con la protagonista che ha in uno scoglio e nella bassa marea le uniche armi con cui fronteggiare la quasi invincibile bestia feroce. Nel 1975 un ancora giovane Steven Spielberg porta sullo schermo uno delle sue opere più famose, “Lo Squalo”. Passato alla storia del cinema, il film segna l’inizio del filone del beast-movie che vede proprio nel gigantesco e feroce cacciatore dei mari una delle figure di spicco. Da quel momento in poi, infatti, gli schermi pullulano di animali di ogni tipo che attaccano gli uomini sia per fame sia per punire l’incuranza dell’essere umano nei confronti della natura. Decine e decine di titoli, tra cui “Piranha”, “Cujo”, “L’orca assassina” tanto per citarne qualche esempio, che tuttavia alla lunga hanno generato una saturazione del filone diventato noioso e anche poco interessante dal punto di vista commerciale, se si pensa che molte pellicole sono state relegate direttamente alla distribuzione in DVD. Da qualche tempo a questa parte, però, il vento sembra essere di nuovo cambiato e, complice il successo di un prodotto discusso ma comunque innovativo come “Sharknado”, l’interesse per gli squali sembra essersi risvegliato. Diretta conseguenza di ciò è questo “Paradise Beach- Dentro l’incubo”, un thriller acquatico tesissimo e realizzato con grande maestria da un ottimo esponente del cinema di genere contemporaneo come Jaume Collet-Serra, già conosciuto dagli appassionati per il remake de “La maschera di cera” e l’ottimo “Orphan”. Quando ci si approccia ad un film di squali, il pericolo più comune è quello di cadere nelle ripetitività di cui si accennava sopra e raccontare una storia prevedibile e scontata minuti dopo minuto. Ed invece Collet- Serra riesce ampiamente a scongiurare questo rischio grazie ad plot che, eccezion fatta per qualche momento di stanca comunque legittimo e perdonabile, viaggia sui binari di una tensione altissima e sfrutta a meraviglia ogni piccolo elemento a disposizione, anche un semplice scoglio e un gabbiano indifeso. Mirabile anche la cura nel creare uno squalo molto realistico e inquietante non solo per il suo aspetto e le fauci enormi, ma anche per la sua spiccata astuzia con cui regge una guerra prima di tutto psicologica con la malcapitata Nancy. Il resto poi viene fatto dallo straordinario paesaggio paradisiaco che diviene un perfetto teatro di terrore e morte dal quale rimane fuori qualsiasi tipo di incursione nel gore, come ci si aspetterebbe in questi casi, a dimostrazione di come la tensione sia l’ingrediente principale sui cui punta il regista spagnolo. Eppure il film non è esente da qualche piccolo difetto, su tutti l’inserimento di personaggi secondari che intaccano il carattere intimista dell’intreccio e invadono un ideale ring riservato ai due protagonisti Nancy e lo squalo. Sbavature che non intaccano nel complesso la buona riuscita di questo “Paradise Beach- Dentro l’incubo” che vede anche la definitiva consacrazione di una sorprendente Blake Lively che, oltre a emergere per la bellezza del suo fisico in costume, dimostra di sapere reggere tutto il film sulle spalle come farebbe una grande attrice. Collet-Serra ha dunque fatto centro ancora una volta e la sua pellicola è destinata a rimanere un buon punto di riferimento per un genere, il beat-movie, in lieve rinascita- o almeno ci si augura.
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The Movie Waffler

The Movie Waffler

All you should need to make a good movie is a girl and a shark, but Serra fails to deliver the basics, instead fashioning a movie that too often resembles a female oriented riff on an '80s Old Spice commercial. The Shallows is a damp squib.

Read the full review at http://www.themoviewaffler.com/2016/07/new-release-review-shallows.html

Simon Foster

"Jaume Collet-Serra’s woman-vs-wild thriller is beautiful, bigscreen Hollywood nonsense that manoeuvres/manipulates the viewer into the kind of submissive state only the finest summer crowd-pleasers can achieve..."

Read the full review here: http://screen-space.squarespace.com/reviews/2016/8/19/the-shallows.html

Reno

Reno

7 /10

Very close to the shore, yet too far and dangerous to attempt.

I'm sure you have seen shark attack films like 'Jaws', 'Deep Blue Sea' et cetera, and yep this another one to add to that collection. But this was something very neatly done, I mean for the most of the parts. Looked so real, so I thought it might end up top among its similar theme. In the end, I was little disappointed, because of the shark. The portrayal of shark was very natural, until the last half an hour. Then it becomes the common film gimmick when the animal was obsessed to kill its target at any cost.

I am a huge animal fan, but I have never seen a live shark in my life and that does not mean I don't know anything about them. Thanks to the nature television networks and what I saw in this film was very disappointing if you love wild animals. I am not supporting the shark here, I'm just talking about its behaviour. It was not right, other than that, I definitely enjoyed the film. In fact, except the final few minutes, since the shark got pumped up, I had no issue and the best shark attack film. But the final battle ruined overall favour I'm going to give to it, what I thought this film deserved.

Great location, and Blake Lively was unbelievably awesome. In the initial part, she was very sexy, but once the narration shifted its focus on surfing and later shark attack, everything changed. The entire film was edgy, I think very nicely written screenplay. It was a limited cast film and nearly the whole film takes place very close to the shore. A good start, neatly maintained mid part, but a below par conclusion, that's what I think about the film. Slightly missed to be a great film in the line of '127 Hours'. In fact, this looks like a sea version of that film. But I still recommend it, because it's worth.

6.5/10

P Rip

P Rip

6 /10

As a shark fanatic (thanks, Jaws), I was excited to see The Shallows. When I first saw the trailer, I thought the concept--more 127 Hours than Jaws--was interesting: A single person, alone on a rock, trapped a mere 100 or so yards offshore, in shark-infested waters.

Most shark movies follow the Jaws formula to a T: Shark attacks a bather, someone in position of authority decides something must be done and the beaches should be closed, someone of higher authority thwarts that attempt, more people die, our hero finally has to confront the monster.

But The Shallows produced a new and fresh take on the same old fish tale. The first half of the movie is similar to Open Water, relying on tension and little fanfare. Then, the shark explodes onto the screen for a few moments, and the movie suddenly becomes a high octane thriller. Basically, though the shark is the main antagonist of this story, all the scenes with the shark in them are much less interesting. I was more engaged with Blake Lively and that damn seagull. She was likable, and I bought into the survival story and was really rooting for her.

There were moments, when The Shallows relied on suspense, that the film become Hitchcockian in tone. We know the shark is out there, but we can't see him. The second we do, the suspense dies instantly. Parts of the movie were small and intimate, much like an independent film. And those were the strengths.

But it almost feels as if the director wanted to do a mash up of a simple suspenseful stalking movie, combined with elements of a survival movie. And again, all that worked for me.

But the sensationalism of the shark stuff was over the top in my opinion. It gave the movie an uneven feel. It was, at times, both a suspenseful stalker type movie with survivalism thrown in, and, then, seemingly out of nowhere, it became an over-the-top summer blockbuster type movie.

It gives it the look of a movie where director and producer didn't see eye to eye. It really seems like the shark action sequences were forced into the movie. They just didn't fit the overall tone. That's this movie's biggest downfall. Yes, the shark has to be there, yes he has to be dangerous. But the way it is presented through the film needs to fit the overall tone of the movie. At one point, the shark eats three people in the course of-- what?--an hour or so? So what was set up, was a small movie. An intimate movie. Something closer to The Blair Witch Project or Open Water, but what we got in the end, was something closer to Friday the 13th.

This movie could have been so much more, by being so much less. Excess is not always best.

In all fairness, The Shallows could have been much worse too. The things that did work, worked well--well enough that with some inventive direction, could have carried the film by themselves. But alas, the over the top violence and sensationalism trumped suspense and creative storytelling, which downgrades The Shallows from something special and unique, to just a "good" movie.

The locations were beautiful, and seeing them in 4K HD on a huge screen was quite impressive.

AndryX7

8 /10

An exceptional movie involving a hungry shark

Plot is simple yet so catchy and interesting. After a few minutes you will start to care about the main protagonist, so much that you will cross your fingers hoping for the best. Everything (or almost everything) is going to feel realistic, and there is not anything wrong with the main antagonist ... it is totally well made.

Great performance by Blake Lively (Nancy Adams) too. I will also mention the impressive landscapes because they literally left me speechless. I would have appreciated a more detailed background story but I will not complain as this movie was a really great experience.

Watch it, especially if you are into suspense and sharks!

(8 stars out of 10)

The Movie Mob

The Movie Mob

7 /10

Overall : Blake Lively takes a shallow premise and elevates a basic shark movie to the next level with her excellent performance.

I was skeptical that an entire movie set on a buoy could be any good, but I was wrong! The Shallows is a sensational shark movie! The whole film fell on Blake Lively's shoulders to carry it all with her acting, and she delivered. The tension, bravery, fear, and struggle show through Lively's portrayal of Nancy with crystal clarity. As a shark movie fan, this one has depth 😉.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6 /10

There's quite a bit of menace from the photography and at least the shark looks real as it terrorises the stranded "Nancy" (Blake Lively) in a small inlet a matter of a few hundred yards from the shore. Naturally, she's left all of her stuff on the beach so is completely incommunicado after a passing Great White decides it wants a snack. Luckily there are a few big rocks and even a chunky metal reef marker for her to shelter on as she prays that someone will come to her aide. Someone, that is, with sense enough to wonder what she is doing stuck on a rock and not just to get into the water, blithely and finally. Though I'm not sure just how physically possible the denouement is, I did really like those few seconds and to be fair, Lively does manage to convey a decent degree of desperation as the tenacious shark gets more and more peckish, angry and innovative. Can she survive? Well on that front the jeopardy level is precisely zero and the whole film is easily half an hour too long, but there are still some squeaky moments and it's worth a watch, if only to remind us just how vulnerable and out of our depth mankind is in a nature where our technology doesn't count.

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