Jaws.

Shark tale.....Jaws.

The re-release of the 1975 classic, Jaws, shows it is still got the same charm as it did 37 years ago. It revolves around the vicious great white shark targeting the innocent holiday resort island, Amity. To solve the shark problem the corrupt mayor (Murray Hamilton) turns to his part-time police chief, Martin Brody (Roy Sheider). Vowing to kill the shark and save the community from it's psychotic plague, Brody calls in marine biologist, Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss.) The pair get salty sea-dog Quint (Robert Shaw) and they set out to kill the creature, intriguing camera angles and John Williams' magnificent orchestral theme telling us when Jaws is present. Jaws is long and slightly drawn out with only three people dying under Jaws' wrath in the whole film - I like a bit of bloodshed. The scenes set on Quint's boat,   Orca are interesting but the initial chase of the serial killer-esque shark just goes round in circles until a too quick climax. Jaws has charm but it isn't a great movie, although it is a good shark film and puts more recent 'killer shark' films like Shark Night 3D to shame. The series is exhausted producing four movies of the same idea, it's time Jaws was put to bed.


3.5/5