Synopsis:

A young thirty-something couple goes on holiday to the Caribbean. One of the fun activities available to them is scuba diving off a reef several miles out. Due to a faulty head count taken by the dive boat crew, the couple is left behind in the open ocean. They find themselves drifting endlessly for hours on end, facing dehydration, saltwater sickness, jellyfish stings, and sharks! Although a boat and a large ship pass by within the couple's view, neither sees them, and they are not discovered missing until the following morning when a member of the dive boat crew discovers their gear on the boat, and their hotel manager discovers they never returned to their room. Frantically a search is mounted by plane, boat, and helicopter, looking for the missing couple.

Angie's Rating: F : This fim is based on a true story... that doesn't mean it has to be crap!  That is this sites' motto right, "keeping friends and family from watching crap one review at a time."  Here's my public service for the week, bringing this review down where it needs to be!  This movie relys on everyone's fear of the unknown beneath the surface.  That having been said, it never delivers a scare or any kind of climatic scene.  It leaves you anticipating but never delivers.  It's bordem.... all the way through.  I could have made this film.  By the way, if you are only going to have two actors for a majority of the film or one (ie. Cast Away) they had better be darn good ones.  This movie was awful.  I would rather go sit in on another lecture on ancient art history than watch this again. 

Chana's Rating: B- : Well, it's so real...but slow... you have to use your mind, so be ready to chill and just wait til the end...
 

The Freak's Rating: C- : I would agree entirely with the average rating (obviously).  Open Water was scary.  Though trying to capitalize on the Blair Witch reality horror flick phenomenon, OW does fail in some ways.  Suspense isn't built up nearly as well as it needed to be in order for the ending to be effective.  The fear of being left alone was conveyed in a relatable way, but illogical as to how the crew could miss it.  Tanks are counted and equipment monitored much more closely when I went than the way this film shows it.  Overall, this is an ok scare, but nothing incredible.

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