Follows a group of five girlfriends who must fight for their lives in open water after a dream wedding transformed into a nightmare.Follows a group of five girlfriends who must fight for their lives in open water after a dream wedding transformed into a nightmare.Follows a group of five girlfriends who must fight for their lives in open water after a dream wedding transformed into a nightmare.
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written by Graham Sutton
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Something deep underwater
Before deciding to watch this, I thought this just looked like another forgettable shark movie on VOD that has a simple premise that can be done the right way or the wrong way, so I was not expecting much going into this movie; after watching it, I can say that I was right to think it looked generic, because this film was just too mediocre to stand out as a good shark movie. The film Something in the Water (2024) has bad characters, a pointless plotline mixed in with the actual premise, ok looking cinematography, bad dialogue, and standard performances from the actors who are given bad direction in their scenes; the only thing that was fine was how they showed the shark, which was by keeping him hidden for most of the film until the end, but what we mostly see is its dorsal fin sticking out of the water or some quick side or overhead shots of it when it is swimming around the characters.
I did not like any of the characters, that is mostly because they were annoying and unlikable, with them arguing about everything and doing/saying the dumbest things in their current situation; there was one girl who had her wedding coming up, and she would not shut up about how she couldn't do certain things and why she should not die in this current situation, along with another one of the girls who I hated and wanted her to get eaten by the shark. There is a girlfriend relationship with two of the girls in the group that involves an event that occurred to have them broken up and having them get back together again, other than the fact that they get back together quickly, but this whole relationship plotline could have been taken out and you would not miss anything. Lastly, since I did not care about anyone in this movie, I was just waiting for the shark to come and attack them because of the stupid things they do, from dropping their only weapon to having blood in the water to draw the shark right where you are on the water.
What I liked a little bit was that the shark in the movie does not show itself fully that much, but instead we just see its dorsal fin sticking out of the water in subtle ways, like seeing it a little bit in the background or foreground until we see it fully by the end showing it with obvious CGI effects; the cinematography was competent enough where there were ok shots of above and under the water, with there being only one entertaining moment. The way the shark kills off the characters are not that great, with it just picking them off one by one in bland ways that are not entertaining to watch, along with it feeling slow at times with how long it takes the shark to attack and how it gets annoying watching them make dumb decisions that can lead to them getting killed; also, I will add that the shark would be attacking them at least nonstop since these people are in open water in the middle of nowhere, it did not feel realistic when it came to thinking about how a premise like this works.
The film Something in the Water (2024) has bad characters, a pointless plotline mixed in with the actual premise, ok looking cinematography, bad dialogue, and standard performances from the actors who are given bad direction in their scenes; though the only thing that was fine in the movie was how they showed the shark and how subtle its appearances were, it did not stop this movie from being a generic and forgettable shark movie. I will end this by saying that this film is just like any other VOD shark movie, and it did not surprise me that it ended of being like that by the time I was done watching it, it is just that there are better shark thrillers out there that you could watch; there is nothing else to say about this movie, there is nothing here to really recommend, it is just a generic bad shark movie.
I did not like any of the characters, that is mostly because they were annoying and unlikable, with them arguing about everything and doing/saying the dumbest things in their current situation; there was one girl who had her wedding coming up, and she would not shut up about how she couldn't do certain things and why she should not die in this current situation, along with another one of the girls who I hated and wanted her to get eaten by the shark. There is a girlfriend relationship with two of the girls in the group that involves an event that occurred to have them broken up and having them get back together again, other than the fact that they get back together quickly, but this whole relationship plotline could have been taken out and you would not miss anything. Lastly, since I did not care about anyone in this movie, I was just waiting for the shark to come and attack them because of the stupid things they do, from dropping their only weapon to having blood in the water to draw the shark right where you are on the water.
What I liked a little bit was that the shark in the movie does not show itself fully that much, but instead we just see its dorsal fin sticking out of the water in subtle ways, like seeing it a little bit in the background or foreground until we see it fully by the end showing it with obvious CGI effects; the cinematography was competent enough where there were ok shots of above and under the water, with there being only one entertaining moment. The way the shark kills off the characters are not that great, with it just picking them off one by one in bland ways that are not entertaining to watch, along with it feeling slow at times with how long it takes the shark to attack and how it gets annoying watching them make dumb decisions that can lead to them getting killed; also, I will add that the shark would be attacking them at least nonstop since these people are in open water in the middle of nowhere, it did not feel realistic when it came to thinking about how a premise like this works.
The film Something in the Water (2024) has bad characters, a pointless plotline mixed in with the actual premise, ok looking cinematography, bad dialogue, and standard performances from the actors who are given bad direction in their scenes; though the only thing that was fine in the movie was how they showed the shark and how subtle its appearances were, it did not stop this movie from being a generic and forgettable shark movie. I will end this by saying that this film is just like any other VOD shark movie, and it did not surprise me that it ended of being like that by the time I was done watching it, it is just that there are better shark thrillers out there that you could watch; there is nothing else to say about this movie, there is nothing here to really recommend, it is just a generic bad shark movie.
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- May 15, 2024
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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