sharks
Formerly the realm of big-budget blockbusters, the subgenre of underwater thrillers has been flooded with relentless low-budget pictures.
No Way Up still retains the entertainment factor, no matter its predictability and overarching absurdity.
Between a disorganized format, poor storytelling choices, and novice performances, we condemn 47 Meters Down: Uncaged to the chum bucket.
Surfer Bethany Hamilton’s story is for the ages and Aaron Lieber dives deep into Hamilton’s past and present, exploring the immediate aftermath of the accident as well as her role as a wife and a mother.
Beyond catchy scores or bad special effects or bloody fun, shark films have a great deal to say about our own anxieties on commercial exploitation of the environment.
47 Meters Down is a total shark sandwich of a film, that will leave every audience member wishing they were watching Jaws instead.
Nearly everything about the film The Shallows seems to indicate that you wouldn’t be at a loss for missing it in theaters. The premise of an attractive woman in turmoil, coupled with an unbelievably vicious shark – each of these stories on their own has been done time and time again. Yet, somehow, The Shallows manages to just surpass the murky depths that most of those films sink to.
