Dark Tide

This movie has got to be the most boring movie I have ever seen. The first thing I noticed was the lack of actual acting ability and yes even by Halle Berry! The characters didn't connect or flow together at all, there was no chemistry between any of them. After an initial 30 seconds of action towards the beginning of the film it takes the movie until the last 15 minutes of film to get to any action at all and then lacks to deliver anything close to visual. I am not sure why Halle signed onto something like this because Shark Week brings more edge of your seat drama and shark awareness than this did in almost 2 hours of film. What a waste. I say don't even waste your DVD money to watch this, I promise you are not missing anything.

i love shark films, whether it jaws, deep blue sea or red water i Love 'em. they can be cheesy and tongue in cheek and unrealistic but not dark tide. the script was average at best and characters were flawed and acting could have been stronger, however the story was simple and in places took its time but not a bad film at all. the shark footage and underwater scenes were best par none and i have never...NEVER seen such a realistic shark attack in any film, the first one really catches you off guard. easy to watch and easy to enjoy.

What possessed someone with Halle Berry's acting chops to take on this very tepid melodrama is anyones guess. The film starts out promisingly enough with a suspenseful shark attack that delivers the goods, but quickly degenerates in soap-opera-ish melodrama that never really engages or interests the viewer on any level. Berry phones in her performance on this show, and whilst some of the cinematography is beautiful I certainly didn't see $25 million on screen. It all just reeks a little of missed opportunity to me. I can see why the film was relegated to the DVD bargain bin in so many territories. While Dark Tide isn't a terrible film, it's certainly not a good one either. A feeble 4...

First off I'm not a hater of Halle Berry. I'm just one of many who believe her acting performances are overrated. This film was incredibly boring for the majority of it's 110 minutes. The parts played by the father and son became ridiculously overbearing and unbelievable. The relationship between Halles' character and her estranged husband also had many holes. The thing that sticks out to me the most is why they thought using a piece of shark footage that was so well known and seen by so many before, would be good for this movie. The way it was incorporated into the film was juvenile. The clip is obviously that of the shark leaping clear out of the water with baby seal in mouth. There are very little if any good things to say about this film. My rating of 3.5 is incredibly generous. Overall, not very good.

After watching this movie all I can say is visually it had some stunning moments, maybe it's because I'm a shark person but I quite enjoyed the visuals. Besides that everything else was totally stupid. There doesn't seem to be any kind of plot, you start of thinking one thing but then by the next seen you're completely thinking another. It is a very confusing movie. Halle Berry starts the movie as the level headed shark expert but by the end she has completely lost it and is now the moron who costs two people their lives. The deaths in this were completely avoidable and had it been real life Halle would be in prison for manslaughter and reckless endangerment. This movie makes no sense and can't even be classed as B grade. Give this movie a miss. Not even the stunning visuals make this movie worth watching at all.

The reviews who say that this movie is bad, boring, and the characters are unlikeable simply expect a different kind of movie and have forgotten the joy in a drama with thrilling elements. This is not "Mission Impossible: Panties in a Twist" or whatever the latest incarnation is. (And I do enjoy those!) This movie is is a character study, an abundance of beautiful cinematography, and a shark chasing thriller all in one. There is a sense of realism, especially with the interactions between the characters, who react in line with their own backstories- characters who are simultaneously heroic, anti-heroic, brilliant, and ridiculously self absorbed and stupid. Additionally, Dark Tide perfectly captured the sense of sheer peace and quiet that consumes you once your head is below the waves in the open ocean. I've been scuba diving all over the world, and driven a boat like in this movie. The movie captured the sense of reverence in the water and for the water, and took me far away to reefs of my own past. Is it thrilling? Absolutely- the action scenes were tense, and you felt the weight of the sharks gliding silently just inches away. Is it slower? I was never bored. I enjoyed the characters, flaws and all. In the end, if anything, I wanted more closure and final introspection. But that is the only thing I found lacking. If you remotely like the ocean and treat it as a thriller with a slower burn, you will enjoy the movie. 6 1/2 stars.

i actually really enjoyed this,if you like the ocean you like great white sharks then this is perfect for you.The acting is pretty decent,the cinematography is really good i'm mean it looks absolutely real!o.k maybe these guys were asking for trouble,but then again there are people that do this everyday out in South Africa and i bet if you talked to every single one of them they could tell you of some seriously close calls,after all you are dealing with the oceans second top predator.(and even though sharks mistake us for food as we are not their usual prey,rogue sharks do exist and have to be killed it happens all over the world so anyone that says sharks don't blindly attach humans are misinformed...anyway)I though it was better than Open Water both one and two and if think there's been loads such as adrift etc etc.The action is great there is some emotional depth between the two main protagonists and to me it seemed like a very enjoyable film.I'd give it a 6.6 out of ten.i thoroughly enjoyed it.Check it out for yourself.

.... and wishing they'd arrive soon and gobble up the entire cast of this terminally boring movie. But, alas, they didn't; and the thing dragged on and on interminably... until, after what felt like an eternity, it finally reached its always predictable, anticlimactic climax. What can we say about the cast? It would perhaps be more accurate to describe them as the miscast. Halle Berry looks great. If I went through what she went through in this movie I'd look like something the cat brought in. But even at her most artistically bedraggled, Berry looks as if she could just slip into a D&G dress and sashay down the catwalk in Paris or Milan. Boat skippers have wind-washed complexions. Throughout this movie Berry always looks as if she could have just stepped out of the beauty parlor, with her perfect eye-liner, her manicured nails and her perfect tan. Her hair gets tousled every now and then, but that's about the extent of her dishevelment. If they wanted me to believe that she was the head of a model agency, or the editor of a woman's magazine, I might have bought it. But a shark expert who spends half her life on a boat? No way, Jose. And the rest of the miscast were no more believable. In fairness, the cinematography was excellent. The sharks were great, too. But they arrived about an hour and twenty minutes too late, for which they will not be lightly forgiven by anyone who got suckered into wasting 94 minutes of their life watching this god awful movie.

Dark Tide is a nice movie for those who love shark movies. One of the character who is supposed to be french and have a french accent, in reality he has a Russian accent, not even near a french accent. Maybe it was too expensive to have somebody with a real french accent. This fact makes me hate this actor more in this movie. I think another cast would have been better for this movie. I also think that Halle Berry is discredited in that movie because of the poor script , poor scenario and other poor actors. There's also a false image of sharks because they are represented as being monsters that eat people. The movie has a very simple scenario in my opinion.

Shark Whisperer Kate (Halle Berry) needs to go back into the water to pay bills. She lost a crewman years ago and blames herself. She takes on Brady (Ralph Brown) a millionaire who wants to swim with the great whites, but outside the cage. This can't be good. This is very disappointing. The story line is simple, but where it all goes bad is in the ending; and in many dark underwater scenes near the end where all you can see are flashlight beams, the water turning red and you hear cries for help; but you cannot see exactly what is happening and to whom. Not that we need to see any gore but we may as well be watching a black screen and hearing cries for help. Not good. The ending screamed that we needed some kind of closure. Didn't get it. Much of the acting and dialogues felt contrived, forced and pointless. We should have felt some compassion for Kate and we didn't. We didn't care. The first three quarters of the movie are okay due mostly to the photography which is outstanding both above and below the water. The editing also was very good, and seamless like you were eavesdropping on the people on the boat. Because of the music and ocean sounds hearing what was being said by the characters was difficult at times. The sightings of sharks alongside the boat are simply scary, real and fantastic. And, yes, the movie JAWS did come to mind. Can't be helped. In most movies about animals, fish or birds, we learn something most of us didn't know about them. Here we learned almost nothing we didn't already know. Some dialogue tidbits about sharks would have gone a long way to a better appreciation of them and the so-called Shark Whisperers who risk their lives trying to understand them. But, to be honest, the closest to a shark I would want to be is right here on film. Understanding them is not something I care about. Confusing scenes: Three men in diving suits park their pickup and go into the water. They are looking for something but I couldn't hear what it was. You see one of the submerged men find something and scoops it up. You can hear someone saying to hurry up. Next scene is a policeman calling in to his office that he sees the truck and will look around. That's all that was seen. Nothing more was made of this in the story. Seems like someone forgot to edit something out or maybe it was part of another movie. Who knows? Hey, we suffer in silence. (2/10) Memo to Ms. Berry: Go back to the Bond movies. Stay out of the water. Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Only a few S-words were heard.