Inspired by similar events in Australia in 1998, director Kentis' film is a triumph of understatement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2023

An uneasy watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2023

An abbreviated yet often harrowing fable of the utter insignificance of man and his digital trappings.

| Original Score: A | Sep 19, 2022

An unjustly forgotten shark movie of the highest, nerve-shredding calibre.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 5, 2020

Open Water is being touted as one of the most frightening films to chomp into your psyche for a long time, but either I'm secretly being fed sedatives or this is a case of good old hype meets collective hysteria.

| Jan 9, 2018

Intense relationship story isn't for kids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Scary, tense, atmospheric, and well acted...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Kentis and Lau have labored to make an almost documentary-style film. It's meant to make us feel like we are really there, and to a large extent it succeeds.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

"Open Water" works on many levels, chief among them as an examination of isolation, worry, terror, and the dread that can accompany the unknown.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 18, 2005

In the end, the film is a cheat. The scares don't work and well, really, there's nothing else there to work.

| Sep 16, 2005

Open Water depends on the audience to be able to vicariously place themselves in the situation at hand, and if you can do that, you're in for a nerve-frying treat.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 26, 2005

Lo mismo ya lo dijo, mucho mejor, Steven Spielberg hace 30 aos.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2005

'Creatividad y un guin inteligente reemplazan la falta de presupuesto para crear un producto de buena calidad'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2005

A horrifying meditation on how contentment can lull us into complacency, detachment, and ultimately, absolute isolation.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 1, 2005

Low-budget and sparse, but very effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 7, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 5, 2005