Does anybody still care about Halle Berry? If "Dark Tide" is any indication, the answer is a very quiet, "No." This is a flacid thriller about a shark expert who is hired to take a wealthy businessman, and his son, diving with sharks off of the coast of South Africa. The characters are stale, and their back-stories are mainly uninteresting. Berry's unenthusiastic performance, and her costume consisting mainly of a bikini, makes you realize that her talent was not the reason she became an A-lister. I will say that when underwater, without dialogue, the movie is shot beautifully, and the sense of danger mounts. The problem is, you care so little for the people in trouble, that you actually root for the sharks.
Grade: D
3D: N/A
Easter Egg: No
Starring: Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Ralph Brown
Director: John Stockwell
Writer(s): Ronnie Christensen & Amy Sorlie (also story)
RT: 94 min
Rating: PG-13 for bloody shark attacks/disturbing images, and for language including sexual references
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