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Solid beginning, great ending, absolutely bonkers middle.

When the novel is focused on the horror of the shark attacks, it is riveting. Unfortunately, for more than half the story, Benchley's Jaws turns into a small-town drama, complete with infidelity, a cringey dinner party, and a mafia-inspired subplot thrown in for good measure. While there is nothing inherently wrong with any of those things, the execution of each is terrible. The characters were so insufferable, you found yourself rooting for the man-eating shark. The dialogue was painfully stilted, and there tended to be a lot of telling when it came to the feelings of the characters.

Similar to The Godfather, the film takes the best parts of the novel and turns them into an iconic movie, leaving out all of the extraneous and bizarre written material.