Shark thriller 'Open Water' cheap on scares
· Sometimes film at its most unassuming and simple can offer the best thrills. The new film Open Water, a low-budget frightener about a scuba-diving couple stranded in the middle of the ocean, attempts to be a great minimalist thriller in the tradition of Alien and Jaws. Those films offered remarkably terrifying moments even before their legendary monsters appeared. Open Water offers a few primal scares, but ultimately it is nothing more than a mediocre B-movie.