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Note This is a double-feature release and includes Open Water 2: Adrift on the same disc. Based on true events, the film follows an American couple who embark on an island vacation getaway to escape their workaholic lifestyles and marital problems. Daniel and Susan, both certified scuba divers, board a local dive boat full of other vacationers for an underwater tour of the reef. Due to a series of miscommunications and a distracted crew, the couple is accidentally left behind. Isolation sets in and they turn to each other for support, but quickly fall apart as they realize the situation they are in is hopeless. Soon they question their own fate as they fight to stay alive in the chilling open waters of the shark-infested ocean. Open Water s main appeal lies in it s rugged realism and real life fear of sharks that has been instilled in society since the day Steven Spielberg s classic Jaws came out in 1 Since then millions the crew cuts shaboom been afraid to go in the water, yours truly included. Since that time there have been few movies with sharks that have been anywhere close to good. Open Water is one of those few that made it. Not just because of sharks, mind you. The story realizes the isolation aspect that helped make Jaws such a classic, because even though they were on that boat, they were alone out there against the shark. Same applies here the crew cuts shaboom Open Water with many sharks, not Great Whites, but real ones at that! The story is pretty straight-forward and true to life as a married couple take a much needed vacation to get away from work and try to fix their troubled marriage. All is pretty much normal until the crew mistakenly thinks that everyone has returned from their diving trip to the underwater reef. Dan and Susan accidentally left behind in the middle of the ocean, alone. Now some of you may not be able to relate to that if you have never been to, and in, the ocean, but this film plays on the primal fears of being alone against impossible odds, something that it has in common with the ultimate shark movie Jaws. Also, this film s story plays with your mind to a pretty high degree and needs a level of imagination from the viewer much in the same vein as the classic John Carpenter film Halloween or the more recent The Blair Witch Project. While this story does not contain the level of action of even those films, it is a very intense ride on a very strong wave. Open Water also benefits from focusing on two main characters so it is easy to develop the pair and grow to care for the characters, which makes what happens during the film that much more of an emotional torment. Actors Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis do a magnificent job of playing a married couple on the rocks, troubled because of too much work and too little time together. Each plays up nuances that makes them rather believable as a married couple. Namely, you get the sense from Blanchard that there is trouble lying underneath the surface of the marriage. A bedroom scene, before the main story on the water, shows her troubled inner feelings as she rejects her husband. Easy to relate to and very believable was her performance, the one aspect missing is why their marriage is troubled, is it too much work which is hinted at when Daniel is annoyed with Susan s constant checking up on work, but this is one aspect that should have been touched upon more in the movie the troubled marriage and why it s so bad.