'The Shallows' Is Girl Power Wrapped in a Sandy Bikini on a Secluded Beach in Mexico Hope Madden - WNAX
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The Shallows - Official Trailer (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

In “The Shallows,” Blake Lively plays Nancy, a med student alone on a secluded, secret beach in Mexico. She’s here to be alone, to mourn, to surf. As the local drops her off on the beach and refuses her offer of cash, he asks how she plans to get back to town.

Excellent question.

There’s a great deal of convenient idiocy in this screenplay, but director Jaume Collet-Serra – who is no comrade of subtlety – actually handles most of these items deftly. After a few middling horror efforts, Collet-Serra made his name with a string of Liam Neeson films, so he knows a little something about a solitary figure fighting deadly odds.

Lively does a fine job in what is essentially a one-surfer-show. Nancy is smart. Not smart enough to avoid surfing alone in an isolated area of a foreign land, but a different kind of smart. MacGyver smart. And it’s with a balance of delicacy and grit that she just about makes you believe the ludicrous.

“The Shallows” is ... a wild mashup of efforts: equal parts empowerment and ogling, survival thriller and Sharkasaurus Rex.

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