Alien at the Movies

Just in time for the summer & when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, it's "Soul Surfer" meets "Jaws" meets "Cast Away" meets "127 Hours" when a med student's (Blake Lively) visit to a secret paradise beach turns into a deadly thriller that could be titled "Finding Nancy" & her nickname would be "Shark Bait". Threatened by a menacing great white shark, Nancy Adams is caught between a rock and blubbery place. Like Tom Hanks' character, she has her Wilson (Stephen Seagull) for company, but with the changing tides, she must seek help from a buoy. It's high tension & suspense as the situation keeps escalating from bad to worse to you got to be kidding me. It's a desperate fight for survival in essentially a one woman show with the safety of the shoreline just 200 yards away, so close yet so far away. At the start, the surfing scenes above & below the water are absolutely spectacular and make Lively appear to be competitive on the surfboard. If you are squeamish about blood, you might want to rethink this movie choice. However, some of the blood seen on film is really Lively's. The movie may not be realistically accurate but it is an entertaining suspense thriller.

Alien gives it 3 "just 32 seconds" stars out of 4.