Most 'experienced divers' reviewing the movie here, who want to share their diving knowledge and tell us about the technical holes in the plot, are missing a huge detail.. the ending. It reveals BIG SPOILER that most of the movie is the hallucination of one of the girls while she is trapped at the bottom in the cage suffering from nitrogen narcosis, the other girl disappears quite quickly so all the ascents etc don't happen. So we can forget our dive tables and decompression times, and it becomes a little bit easier to suspend our disbelief for the tank swapping next to, for example Jaws, where a shark propels itself fully out of the water and sinks a large boat
There are actually a number of things the movie gets right.. the general feel of being underwater at depth with low visibility.. the lighting and camera angles are very suspenseful and really give the right sense of disorientation and claustrophobia. Sometimes the camera seems to take a shark eye view, approaching and then deciding not to attack, at other times large dark spaces are left behind the main character just waiting to be filled with a large tooth filled shark mouth
We don't see the shark clearly or often either , which is a good thing.. the best parts of Jaws were when we didn't see the shark much, and Shallow Water which i saw recently was filled with cgi shark and wasn't scary at all. In contrast I was really kept on the edge of my seat with this movie and i am terrified of sharks and dive so i know what the feeling is like from personal experience of being slightly uneasy underwater
My only complaint is that there is a little too much chatter
Better than expected and recommended, nowhere near Jaws obviously but better than most other shark movies
There are actually a number of things the movie gets right.. the general feel of being underwater at depth with low visibility.. the lighting and camera angles are very suspenseful and really give the right sense of disorientation and claustrophobia. Sometimes the camera seems to take a shark eye view, approaching and then deciding not to attack, at other times large dark spaces are left behind the main character just waiting to be filled with a large tooth filled shark mouth
We don't see the shark clearly or often either , which is a good thing.. the best parts of Jaws were when we didn't see the shark much, and Shallow Water which i saw recently was filled with cgi shark and wasn't scary at all. In contrast I was really kept on the edge of my seat with this movie and i am terrified of sharks and dive so i know what the feeling is like from personal experience of being slightly uneasy underwater
My only complaint is that there is a little too much chatter
Better than expected and recommended, nowhere near Jaws obviously but better than most other shark movies