Despite some good suspense, this all feels too familiar as a shark with a hefty appetite seems irrationally keen to feast on the protagonist
Don’t rock the boat … The Reef: Stalked.2010 feature The Reef
features a whole new cast of Australian characters battling a hefty shark near the Great Barrier Reef, but it’s essentially the same idea. Only this time round, the nearly entirely female cast features two sisters and two of their friends on a kayaking excursion that goes wrong but not through any fault of their own.
That said, the past does shape the story: main protagonist Nic was traumatised nine months earlier when her other sister was murdered by an abusive partner, drowned in her own bathtub. Nic found her body and ever since she’s been afraid of water and keeps having super-swiftly-edited flashbacks where she imagines she is being drowned herself.
It’s a device that Traucki keeps using to denote Nic’s panic, but also imply that the shark is a kind of metaphor for abusive men, hence the word “stalked” in the title. PTSD freezes Nic in her kayak at a crucial moment, compelling her little sister Annie to step up when one of their friends gets picked off by a “man in the grey” – surfer slang for sharks, we are helpfully informed.
Traucki manipulates the suspense competently enough, but this film mostly depends on tedious jump-scares for its effect, and has a few too many scenes where someone looks around in terror at the water with a worried expression. The tense music is hackneyed and consequently about as biting as a minnow nip.
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