The film ups the ante on its predecessor, resulting in a pure, rather beautiful example of genre as ritual.

In a summer when Alexandre Aja made the creature feature feel fresh again with Crawl, the ocean's most graceful apex predator undoubtedly loses out to a bunch of dumb Florida gators.

A fish screams underwater... so there is some enjoyment to be had. Just not the kind you might expect.

In the end, I was cheering for the sharks to kill everyone, because at least that ending would make it interesting. If you want to see a movie about sharks eating people, then you will enjoy this.