Those Who Walk Away (film)
2022
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Jul 29, 2022 · 68% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 62% Audience Score 100+ Ratings In an effort to heal after witnessing her sister's horrific murder, Nic travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and...
- (22)
- Teressa Liane
- Andrew Traucki
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama
The Reef: Stalked Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Rick Bentley KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA) It is the performance by Liane that sells the terror. Full...
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Jul 25, 2022 2:00 pm
The Reef: Stalked is in theaters, VOD/digital, and Shudder on July 29, 2022.
Andrew Traucki’s The Reef: Stalked is the writer/director’s fourth wade back into aquatic horror waters, albeit with inconsistent results. I wasn’t taken by his first shark attack flick, The Reef, which was a concern that proved detrimental coming into his 2022 sequel. Both films implement a style of using wildlife B-roll that doesn’t match character-focused cinematography, but The Reef: Stalked also falls victim to another sin of indie-budgeted shark cinema — poorly computer-animated beasts. It’s never as bad as Alicia Silverstone’s battle against a pixelated atrocity in The Requin earlier this year, but still woefully underwhelming in terms of fin flick thrills.
Two narratives fight for dominance throughout The Reef: Stalked. One analyzes Nic’s growth as someone who flees from confrontation and depressive realities after her sister dies — the shark stalking Nic represents her traumas, get it? The other is an actual creature feature where Nic, Annie, Jodie (Ann Truong), and Lisa (Kate Lister) must defend themselves on single-rider kayaks against a massive fishy foe. Unfortunately, there’s never a fluid marriage between Nic and Annie’s reevaluations of PTSD, heavy-handed metaphors, and excitable shark horrors. Traucki aims to chart new waters since he can’t just recreate the capsized nightmare of The Reef, but fails by disconnectedly overcomplicating what surrounds sporadic shark attacks from beneath.
Even worse, and most regrettably, The Reef: Stalked continues a streak of dodgily inserted or animated sharks that never feel like they belong in their cinematic environment. In this case, it appears video footage of real sharks is superimposed into scenes which still give a digital feel. Actors react to invisible lungers that emerge from (sometimes digital) cover-all splashes that surge topside with the ferocity of clunky video game graphics. These are your sea monsters, your fearsome predators, and they don’t even blend into islander backgrounds. Traucki’s dilemma is not uncommon and very well might be a recurring talking point come my review of fellow shark flick Maneater next month. Scared swimmers flail away from meh-at-best sharks (aside from wildlife inserts) for 90 minutes like you’ve seen over and over from underfunded aquatic horror films — when will we learn our lesson?
The Reef: Stalked is another middling mid-budget fin flick that’s tonally confused somewhere between Shark Week and Lifetime. There’s nothing exceptional nor abysmal — Deep Blue Sea 3 and The Requin respectively represent both ends of the recent subgenre spectrum there — as writer/director Andrew Traucki dunks some GoPros (or adjacent technology) u...
- Matt Donato
Jul 29, 2022 · Andrew Traucki. Writer. Andrew Traucki. Stars. Teressa Liane. Ann Truong. Saskia Archer. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +2. Add to Watchlist. Added by 5.8K users. 139 User reviews. 47 Critic reviews. 41 Metascore. Awards. 1 nomination. Videos 3.
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- Adventure, Horror, Thriller
- Andrew Traucki
- 2022-07-29
Feb 16, 2021 · While not a great film, The Reef: Stalked is certainly acceptable and watchable if you’re in the mood for yet another shark film, and you don’t want to wait for the forthcoming Maneater or take a chance on Sharkula. RLJE Films will release The Reef: Stalked to VOD and Digital platforms as well as Shudder on July 29th.
- Teressa Liane, Ann Truong, Saskia Archer
- Andrew Traucki
Female-led shark thriller has threat, trauma, violence. Read Common Sense Media's The Reef: Stalked review, age rating, and parents guide.
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The Reef: Stalked is a drama that happens to star a shark....for abit. The first Reef was so damn good & so scary & balanced characters & shark footage perfectly. Also this silly sequel has a horrendously embarrassing & funny scene where the shark shoots at the boat like a ROCKET!!!!
