I have always been amazed by this true masterpiece, though I don't understand why certain people compare this to JAWS. This is actually the anti JAWS. In Spielbreg's feature, the beast was the evil character from the beginning to the end. Here the killer whale is presented as a good character in the first half of the movie, and then slowly begins to become the evil beast. On the contrary Richard Harris is an evil man in the first part of the film before getting better and better later in the movie, At least the audience feel empathy for him, as he also has for his Nemesis killer whale who wants get revenge on him, Harris the hunter hunted has also his dark past: his wife killed by a drunk hit and run driver. This is a sort of psychological adventure thriller drama, more inreresting than JAWS. But of course JAWS will remain JAWS. And as I have said, there is also something of DUEL in this feature. The final face to face between the two opponents is so riveting. The audience doesn't know which side choose, unlike in JAWS. I also found something in common with the Korean THE TIGER. Man facing beast, but not a normal beast.
Nothing to do, nothing in common with FREE WILLY....
Nothing to do, nothing in common with FREE WILLY....