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The Shallows (2016) is a survival thriller from Jaume Collet-Serra you can watch online on iFILM. Medical student Nancy (Blake Lively) travels to a hidden beach in Mexico, the same spot her late mother once loved. Perfect waves, an empty shore, nobody around. Except what is circling underneath.
About two hundred yards out, Nancy strays into a great white shark's hunting ground and, with a torn leg, drags herself onto a tiny rock that the rising tide will soon swallow. The clock runs down, her phone is out of reach, and her only company is a wounded gull and a buoy just a little too far away. Most of the film rests on one actress, the ocean, and a predator you barely glimpse. Collet-Serra shoots it tight and tense, turning every swim toward safety into a count of seconds.
Few characters, almost no dialogue, eighty-six lean minutes, and camerawork that turns a postcard resort into a trap. Stream The Shallows (2016) online on iFILM.
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