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Jaws

 Starring: Richard Dreyfuss

 Directed by: Stephen Spielberg

 Rated PG

 Genre: Action

 Synopsis: A shark begins to terrorize the small community of Amity Island, so the community gets together to hire a shark hunter to take care of the shark.

 My Thoughts: This movie is one of the most hyped films ever made. It does not live up to the expectations everyone says it does. I know that I may get a lot of hate mail for this entry, so be it. Let us see the score.

   Scorecard

     Acting- I have never been a fan of Richard Dreyfuss, and this movie is partially why. His acting was dryer than a burnt piece of toast. Roy Scheider was okay, but to be honest, not good enough to carry this movie. (0)

     Direction- I did not have any problem with the direction of this movie. It seemed to go where it should have, and everything clicked well enough. (1)

     Story- The story was pretty good. It is based on a true story of a string of shark attacks that happened in the early 1900's in New Jersey of all places. I enjoyed the way the story was told, with the shark as the main antagonist, with the shark hunter never really getting the best of him until the end. It flowed really well. (1)

     Expectations- I still do not understand how this can be in the AFI's top 50 movies ever. It ranked in at 48. It was number 2 in the best thrillers ever, and I just do not see it. This movie flopped in the expectation department in my eyes, this movie was way too over hyped and fell flat. (0)

     Boring?- This movie had a running time of a little over two hours, but it seemed a lot longer than that. All but 15 minutes of this movie was interesting. I am not good at math, but that is a low percentage of the movie that was actually entertaining. This movie was way too boring. (0)

   Final Score: 2 out of 5

 Final Thoughts: This movie was too over hyped and too boring to come out with a good rating. I understand that this movie was an academy award nominee for best picture, and lost, but so was Chicago, and that one actually won. This movie was not thrilling, was not exciting and was not good. I understand that I am from a different era of film appreciation, this movie was released 7 years before I was even born, but it doesn't matter, because no matter what crap is wrapped in, it is still going to smell bad after awhile.

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