Rating: 4/5 -- Traucki manages to keep the tension running throughout the film's 94-minute runtime even before the shark ever shows up to make dinner out of the cast. Full Review

For most of the time, Traucki manages the horror well, with the menace inferred. Particularly spine-chilling is the scene in which Walshe-Howling is exploring the air pocket in the upturned boat. Sound tells the story. Full Review

Rating: 1/5 -- Terrible scripting, unconvincing acting, wonky continuity and feeble atmospherics induce an overpowering feeling of tedium that cancels out any potential for true terror. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- Once that journey happens it is tremendously effective and, honestly, it's like you want to get out of that cinema.

Rating: 3/5 -- As for suspense, there isn't much. When the only thing at stake is the size of the body count, suspense becomes the first casualty. Full Review

The tropes of survival (or otherwise) in a watery wilderness may be familiar from Open Water, Adrift and even Andrew Traucki's own crocodile-themed debut Black Water - but when directed as thrillingly as this, these tropes prove all too easy to swallow.

Rating: 3.5/5 -- Considering what most low-budget shark flicks look like, The Reef is a welcome sight indeed. Full Review