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A better ending would have been (spoilers)


If everyone died in the water, and it was Warren who survived on the boat and was rescued. That would have been a lot more interesting than the actual ending imo.

Or even something more ambiguous, like the last 2 sitting on the rock just staring at land, afraid of the swim.

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I was actually hoping a rescue ship came by with Warren on it (similar to "The Mist" ending").

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Better ending would have been both made it to the rocks at the end. There is no way you swim 10 miles to get taken while you try to get lifted up to safety. Perhaps he should have put his mask back on and faced the shark like he had throughout the movie.

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Yeah, I though it would have been funny if Warren came by on a massive yacht at the end, drinking champagne, surrounded by girls in bikinis, and said "whassup, bitches!"

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A better ending would have been if they reached the boat and Warren, again.

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I kept thinking that would be the outcome actually.

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Considering it was based on a true story, I'm assuming they went by what really happened.

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This was loosely based on a true story that involved a Tiger Shark, not a White. What happened in this movie didn't really happen.

Plus a shark picking someone off a rock cliff along relatively shallow corral? ehhh, that's a Hollywood ending for you.....

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yeah not showing warren and that boat again was a huge letdown, I'd rather have seen them all die and then cutting to warren being rescued, haha, although I don't know if they were trying to stick to the true story that much or not, probably very loosely



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They should've shown the last 2 actually make it on the island reef. She should've pushed him up on the rocks first because he was strong enough to pull her up.

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yeah I get what you're saying but by pushing her up to safety and sorta sacrificing himself he was kinda redeemed in the process and she could live with the guilt, lots of drama in this movie, certainly not a hollywood ending where he kills the shark with a fire extinguisher or they both make it out alive and get married or whatever



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