WARNING: Plot Details. Not ending.

The film takes place in scenic South Africa. We get the National Geographic tour. The film starts out great showing us Halle Berry's cleavage, a guy filming her cleavage, and then they throw a shark into the film...and no more cleavage. Halle's hobby is to pet Great Whites in open water out of a cage. She is married to Jeff who films the action. So when sharks suddenly behave badly, Halle quits diving with them.

After a year, Jeff is trying to get back with Halle. The have fights about the relationship. The film contains Halle doing a first person philosophical narration and the music is very tame, not what one expects for an action/thriller. Halle who has spent 10 years in the water doesn't like the smell of fish and screams when someone tries to push her in. Clearly this is an action flick written for women, or by a woman (Amy Sorlie). In one scene Jeff apologizes for whatever it was that made Halle angry. Halle is angry that he doesn't know why she is angry and won't tell him...because he should know! She finally says, "You have no idea what's wrong with me!"

As Halle's business starts to fail, a wealthy Brit (Ralph Brown) trying to connect with his son (Mark Elderkin) wants to swim with Great Whites without a cage. Halle is reluctant but agrees.

They set out in the water to go dancing with sharks. And if everything went well, there wouldn't be a movie. Dad fights with son, Jeff fights with dad, Halle fights with Jeff, and Halle fights with dad. At this point I was hoping a two headed mega shark would swallow the whole boat. The climatic scene I can't detail because I have no idea what is happening. Everyone is in the same dark suits and it is dark. The full view film of the sharks appear to be stock footage. (Ed Wood would be so proud.) This is more of a drama with some poorly shot action scenes.

No f-bombs (that I caught),sex, or nudity. Some PG-13 name calling. Might be enjoyed by women who like a soft female lead in an "action thriller."

Granted, when I sat down to watch the 2012 movie "Dark Tide", I wasn't harboring much of any expectations to it. I hadn't heard about it, and the synopsis just sounded like another average and generic run-of-the-mill shark movie.

But since the movie was showing on TV and I hadn't already seen it, of course I watched it. After all, it was a shark movie.

And I have to admit that I was actually rather entertained by what writers Amy Sorlie and Ronnie Christensen managed to churn out here. The storyline was actually fairly interesting and well-written. So this movie did manage to entertain me.

The movie actually had a good enough ensemble of casted actors and actresses on the cast list. Halle Berry actually carried the movie quite well enough, but for me then it was Olivier Martinez whom was the star of the movie, as he put on the most memorable performance and had the most interesting character to portray on the screen. And Ralph Brown definitely put on a great performance as the very annoying and highly dislikable character Brady.

For a shark movie then "Dark Tide" was adequate. It could have had a bit more of shark attacks in it, if you were to ask me. Because, and let's just be honest here, isn't that why you watch shark movies? Yes it is.

But all in all, then "Dark Tide" proved entertaining and enjoyable. My rating of "Dark Tide" from director John Stockwell lands on a six out of ten stars.

If this would've been a documentary, I would've been full of praise. Beautiful pictures, even those without Halle Berry in them, and great environment. Unfortunately I cannot judge this just by those underwater shots. I have to also rate the dialog and the story. Both of which lack a lot, not only in comparison to the scenery.

Halle Berry and her love interest in this are annoying to the point they make the real bad guy look like the only sane person in this thing. And that is just because he has a clear goal, nothing will get him off that. But our heroes? Better not ask. Especially because their answer will bore and/or annoy you to death. I love Halle, but only watching this because of her or the sharks has to be a decision only you can make ... don't count on an intriguing story though!