'Underwater': Film Review

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Kristen Stewart and Vincent Cassel play survivors of an endangered deep-sea drilling crew in William Eubank's monster movie

lets viewers know what they're in for from the start: If its title treatment's faint echo ofdoesn't tip you off , a credits sequence heavy on newspaper-headline exposition may remind you of recentreboots, in which humanity's hubris awakened terrible creatures from the deep.

Stewart plays Norah, a mechanical engineer working more than six miles beneath the ocean's surface on the deepest drilling operation in history. Alone at the film's beginning, she speaks to us in a surprisingly pensive voiceover, making elliptical references to a former boyfriend and declarations — "there's a comfort to cynicism; there's a lot less to lose" — that don't sync up with anything to come in the film.

As she and the one other survivor from this part of the station crawl through rubble searching for others, the film mercilessly amplifies the setting's inherently claustrophobia-triggering qualities. Gathering soon with their captain and three other survivors , they realize their only option is to get in spacesuit-like deep sea gear, descend further to the ocean floor, and walk out to the main drilling station.

As they prepare to make the trip, Norah instructs Emily , the only other woman in the group, to take off her pants, as they won't fit in the undersea suit. Presumably, the line was slipped into the script to justify the fact that, later in the film, Stewart will spend multiple scenes running around in just her underwear.

He rations out the pic's monsters with skill — lots and lots of "what's that sound?!" at first, followed by quite effective partial or fleeting glances. But even after we've seen the fluidly-moving things in full and at length, the film nicely balances their menace with that of the depths.hints at one point that the ocean is the only thing truly worth fearing here.

 

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Kristen Stewart will find a way to mumble and make it boring.

the most underrated actress. Waiting for the movie.

DelmontPaulJ They already made this movie 30 years ago. It was called The Abyss. Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (there’s a name from the past) and Michael Biehn.

Glad she has another film coming out. Hope this one works.

Looks dull

It seems like this review has a lot of spoilers...

Two actors we will not pay to see, but go on.

you can try then everybody will drown.

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