JAWS

As a critic, I have watched a lot of movies that have been released since my conception in 1997, but I must say my favorite movie of all time is before my time. And that movie is Steven Spielberg's Jaws. Released into theaters June 20, 1975, it put fear into the hearts of audiences all around the world while simultaneously creating the phenomenon we now call the "Summer Blockbuster." With a movie with such a simple plot (A small summer town is being terrorized by a killer great white shark and it's up to the town's sheriff, a marine biologist and an eccentric fisherman to find it and kill it), you would think that it was the plot of a "B movie" just from reading it but I kid you NOT, this is not the case with Jaws! Thanks to a $9 million dollar budget provided by Universal Studios, an all-star cast of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, and a film under the superior direction of a young, but brilliant Steven Spielberg, this movie turned out to become an "A+" action, adventure, "creature feature" filled with enticing suspense and gory horror that I enjoyed from the first minute to the last minute. One of the many things that impressed me with Jaws is that it is not plagued with horror movie cliches. Throughout the movie, I was brought to actually care for each of the main characters while instantly feeling each and every emotion they felt from sympathy to terror. Plus, in a generic horror movie, you are suppose to root against the antagonist a.k.a the killer. In Jaws, I fell in love with the antagonist, which is obviously the Shark. Thanks to an excellent score performed by John Williams, the legendary Jaws theme song adds the element of fear in the film as well as escalates the tension in the water when the Shark approaches. Jaws is the PERFECT MOVIE. Yes, there are many movies in existence that are considered the perfect movie but without any argument, Jaws is one of them. It was a pleasure to watch this film, over...and over... and OVER AGAIN! Jaws gets a perfect 5 out of 5.