Rod Wallace

The actors, production crew team and director should receive kudos as Open Water is very low budget, however appeared to create a little buzz 15 years ago. It was strong enough to gross roughly 100 times it's budget due to curiosity, which is why more movies about water and shark tragedies will come and go. The poor real couple probably died of 'warm water hypothermia' and dehydration. Also, many stages of overwhelming panic would of greatly changed their human experience (i.e. deathly ill mental state), which this movie and the folks in it could not capture at all.

The scenery, the music and the general survival plot is in queue to become a good movie, however this film comes off a little goofy/daft. When they made this movie in 1996, they should have said it was somewhere between 1950-1980 just to give it more texture and avenues for the writers and actors. A pivotal part of the movie is the decision to travel by sea plane 80 additional miles to find a native american gentleman (complete stranger) to be in a photo shoot with Elle Macpherson. My expectations already low at this point, greatly lowered, so I just tried to enjoy their "attempt" to make a good movie in 1996. This movie should receive 2.5 out five stars as I did watch the entire movie and wanted to see the end! I thought Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and Bart the Bear had pretty good chemistry. I heard Alec Baldwin would sit in Bart's very large actors' chair between scenes which escalated into many onset shenanigans. :)