We come to Steven Spielberg once again before he made it big. A shark is killing people on an island on the East Coast of the United States and a veteran fisherman (Robert Shaw) offers the people to stop it for a steep price. The sheriff (Roy Scheider) agrees and they take along a shark specialist named Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss). There is horrifying footage of a real shark making mincemeat of a cage that Hooper was supposed to have been in to try to spear the man-eater with a drug. The Great White shark swallows one of the men, very kewl, and they have to resort to unusual methods to stop it from eating them which leads to a stupendous scene at the film's climax. Robert Shaw actually wrote some of the monologue for JAWS, one of the best in cinema, where he tells the story of being on a Navy ship that delivered the atomic bomb to Japan. An exciting thriller that made the country fearful of entering the waters. [4.3 stars]
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