Reviewed by Tim Wong

THE SCARY MOVIE, perhaps more so than any other, succeeds or fails on the whim of its audience. It's like the whole "love stories are an inherently fickle thing" thing – a line by my co-editor I've revisited quite pathetically now twice in succession. The same tenuous crux should apply here to Open Water – a high-concept, low budget grenade-of-a-movie, pulling the pin on that most primal of all fears: the shark attack.