The Beach’’ is one of Leonardo DiCaprio’s best films, and deserves to be compared with his performance in ’’Titanic’’. This movie all starts with a man named Richard (played by Dicaprio).
Richard is your average city boy, and now he’s looking for something new. Richard attempts to seek paradise by looking for a mysterious beach listed on a map, and later learns the urban legend about it. So later, him, and two teens from France, Etienne and Francoise, go looking for it. And when they finally get there, they discover a tribe that’s more than happy to let them in, and then basically have a world of paradise all to themselves. From that point on, it may seem to you like this is just a serene little movie, but you’ll find yourself wrong. Dead wrong.
Earlier, on their way swimming to the beach, Richard and Etienne have a little shark scare plotted by Francoise, and that’s that. But later, when they three have integrated with the island, the threat of sharks becomes horrifyingly real. Richard has a face-to-face encounter with a shark, and lives to tell the tribe about it, which is no surprise since it the shark was a rather small one, as pointed out later by one of the tribe members. But that was just the beginning. Later, the tribe witnesses the horrifying aftermath of several bloody shark attacks that leaves Richard white as a sheet. But the worst is yet to come for this island, and it won’t be because of sharks.
When Richard takes advantage of the paradise he has in his hands, all hell breaks loose. And Richard will regret the bad decisions he’s made. Richard is banished from the tribe and forced to stay on a desolate hill for weeks to come until he can get back the maps he made available to the public, making their secret beach a tourist hot spot, which is about the worst thing that can happen for the tribe that has lived there for who knows how long. Then, Richard finds out his decision to introduce the beach to the public has also introduced the beach to a gang of ruthless Swedish hunters that will stop at absolutley nothing to keep the beach under raps by ridding it of all the people on it, which leaves Richard witness to the horrific killings of 4 innocent American tourists that makes it abundantly clear that he and everyone else on the beach have to get as far away from it as possible before it’s too late.
The ending is some sort of an anticlimax and does not match up to the standered of the movie.Also in between the movie richards part could have been developed more instead of being showcased as one having an insane and crazed side to him.
Anyway overall a good film and in my opinion quite enjoyable.