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Great story. Great scenery. Great performance. However, the one thing that drags the movie down is the shark.

Since the movie is about shark, and viewers likely came only to see "shark", I'll review the cons first. (If crazy Shark-nado CGI doesn't bother you, you don't have to worry a thing. But, if you are ashamed of watching them, pay attention): While the movie does contain a huge plot on sharks, the visuals and representation on them are uncomfortable. First off, they are CGI. The CGI crew did a fantastic job creating visual of them underwater (with the effect of filters), but when sharks leap out into the air, or from aerial shot of them, they look horrendous. Horrible enough to want to block them out of your memories. The only realism you can enjoy watching about sharks here are their fins, as they use real props on those scenes. While the movie does a great job limiting the unnecessary poor shots of them, seeing just one of these clip makes everything unforgivable.

For the good news, or just trying to find reasons to watch this film: The movie has superb characters. Every character contains great bonding that makes everything understandable. While dushy (bad) characters exist, they don't go over the top and make things unbearable. There's lots of great suspense, realistic emotion, and intelligent plot to the movie, so these definitely makes it worthwhile to enjoy.

Aside from a few "convenient" actions, if you take away the CGI shark, you would had an awesome monster movie. It's not a terrible movie, it's just... why did it had to go this way...

Well... fresh movie has fresh reviews, and those reviews were mostly positives from people who were braced for it. All I can say, I forgot how important researching is before watching a film. The movie was a disappointment, and here are some important keys that makes it a horrible experience:

The movie heavily uses CGI. There's only one reason to complain about CGI, and that's when it's obviously horrible CGI. The movie employs CGI not only for everyday characters, but also for everyday environment.

The acting is bad. It only takes one sour apple to ruin a barrel. This is the case of a side character voicing too loud. If the movie was based on that actor, it would be enjoyable, but instead, it went the comical route that sticks out like a sore thumb.

The story is full of cliches. This is probably where the good reviews and the bad reviews clashes. If you're new, young, inexperienced, this movie is smooth for you. If you're the opposite, every action and moral that happens is a cliche that isn't well performed. The movie is very fast paced that you're constantly bombarded with poor executions one after another.

Fast paced is also very injuring to the movie because it skips character developments. With no character developments, everything you hear from actors sounds like poor improv acting... it's almost like it's based on a book or something... yup, it is. With that, unless you're familiar with the novel, this isn't a movie you'll want to brag about.

Overall to say, this is a family kids movie... with obvious CGI.

If you're looking for a possession movie, this is one. If you're looking for a suspense movie, this is not. The movie has some good surprises, but not suspense. In comparison, you would call that mystery, which fits perfectly with its point of theme. While the movie is "fine" to watch, I really had a hard time getting any thrills. While there were some character developments, it's really just a sad story that no one can care about...

This isn't a really great movie to recommend others, but if you're all out of option, this isn't one to hate either. It's VERY NEUTRAL (hence the 5/10 ;P ) Most importantly to say, this is a PG13 "mystery" film, with only 2 scenes of brief violent/gore that pushes it to the R maturity.

Here are some positives you can find in the movie, if you're still curious into watching it. The movie doesn't contain annoyingly loud surprise music. There are no dead silence... (so you won't get scare?). Story falls with "based on true events" kind of movies. The heroine takes action... no dumb character cliche. Evenly paced. Finally, enjoyable actors, even from the kids.