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I tried to watch this three times, keeping an open mind. It got worse. Made it halfway, then fast forwarded. It looks OK, but the "story" is totally stupid. Completely unbelievable and one also has to suffer through weird nonsensical "sex" scenes. This total piece of shiite cost $20 million to make. Back in the 1950s B&W days, there was The Creature From the Black Lagoon. I happened to watch an old copy a week before I chose to suffer through this current monstrosity. One thing I got from trying to watch The Shape of Water is that I may never eat a hard-boiled egg again for the rest of my life. Thanks Hollywood, for nothing..

I'm rather impressed by the number of reviewers who actually watched this movie to the end. Stronger than me, by a long shot. To be fair, I thought the first 15-20 minutes were sort of OK, until the yacht sank and what seemed like the "ghost ship" appeared. It basically went all down hill from there for me. It seemed pretty obvious that nobody was on-board, and the attempts of the "survivors" to reach the bridge took forever (if they even did). Fortunately, (or maybe not), I bailed out before the end, and don't think I missed anything of any consequence.

At first, I thought that the "character" of Jess, (Melissa George), was mentally mixed-up somehow and that perhaps everything that happened later was some kind of psychotic episode. In other words, nothing was meant to be real at all in the film – the whole thing was an unraveling of her mental state. Maybe I'm trying to give extra credit to whoever put this mess together.

Ms George doesn't seem capable of acting, at least not in this performance. She seemed to hold more or less one facial expression throughout. I guess that's something.

I don't feel qualified to give this movie a rating, because I haven't seen it all, yet. I might fast-forward through it a bit and cheat, after I've had a couple of whiskies. So far, I'll give it a minus nine because I'm not drunk enough.

Hmmm. A "Bob Dylan movie" I'd never heard of before and thought to myself Oh no, not again. Surely it couldn't be worse than, say, Masked and Anonymous, or the saga of Renaldo and Clara? So I started to read some reviews and was surprised at how bad it's supposed to be. In the end, I was reticent to even watch it. Well I did just watch it and for me, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

It's definitely not a cinematic masterpiece by any stretch. The draw card for me was seeing Dylan in an old movie. Wasn't expecting much, (expecting to fall asleep).

It's difficult to say if a viewer has no interest in Dylan, (or Fiona), what the reaction would be. This movie is nearly 30 years old. Dylan is usually no great actor in films. Here he seems to be "acting" as himself, (whoever he is), with some iconic lines.

It's definitely a much better movie than many critics portray it as. Better than a lot of the new crap I've suffered through.