Review of Open Water

This isn't my kind of movie, simply because it's too depressing and dark. I go to movies to be entertained without being exposed to unhappy real life situations. I gather that this movie was based on a true incident where 2 lovers, who are also scuba enthusiasts, go deep sea diving with a large group of people on a professional diving boat. The boat leaves while they're still submerged because an erroneous head count does not reveal that they're not aboard. They finally surface to find themselves surrounded by nothing but open water, miles from shore. They endure many hours of drifting helplessly while waiting for the boat to return. In the end, they are attacked by sharks and the male is pulled under and disappears. The female simply gives up, takes off her air tanks and slips slowly beneath the waves in an apparent suicide. The fact that they're missing eventually becomes known and several rescuers race to their aid, only to find open water when they arrive. I'm not saying this is not an entertaining movie. In fact it's quite entertaining, but it's simply too dark and depressing for my personal taste. Subsequent to seeing the movie, I saw a television program on one of the documentary channels. The program dealt with this incident and I learned that there is some suspicion that the two actually survived and were simply attempting to disappear for any of a variety of speculative reasons. For me, the movie would have been so much more enjoyable had the couple actually survived, even if only on a clandestine level where only we the viewers knew. I'm sure many adventuresome scuba types will view my lack of enthusiasm with this movie in a negative light but like it or not, this movie is downer that leaves you standing under a dark cloud when it ends.