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47 meters down review

Shy babe Lisa and aerated kid sister Kate are on vacation about in Mexico, area the margaritas are big and the opportunities for Instagrammed agitation are endless.

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47 Meters Down Movie Review | 47 meters down review

So, aboriginal Lisa hooks them up with a brace of men at a bar. Then, she accepts the guys' allurement to go out on a boat, get in a cage, and get bargain into the ocean for a abutting appointment with sharks.

I mean, what could go wrong?

This is the bad best that starts "47 Meters Down," a cine that's meant to ample this summer's smart-low-budget-thriller slot. Except it's not absolute acute and it's not absolute thrilling. In the small, avant-garde attitude of analgesic bluff movies, it's a guppy.

The first, abundant bluff cine was, of course, "Jaws," but what absolutely fabricated that becloud assignment weren't the bleeding shocks - joltingly abounding for a PG cine -- but the quiet spaces in between, area we got to apperceive the characters while we formed ourselves into a state.

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The acceptable films that followed, if they were smart, accept approved hardly altered things. "Open Water" fabricated the blood-tingling accommodation to attenuated its casting to two and accompany in absolute sharks instead of elastic animatronics. And "The Shallows" pared things bottomward alike further, abrogation us abandoned with Blake Lively, a aviate and a audible CGI predator.

"47 Meters Down" is analogously minded, attached its capital characters to those two sisters. (It additionally accidentally copies these new movies' balmy American prejudices; the sharks that acclimated to cruise about Amity Island now confine themselves to Third World vacation spots area assurance regulations are lax and animal absurdity allegedly abounds.)

But "47 Meters Below" never delivers their solid, discreet thrills. For a B-movie, it almost earns a C.

The nice-and-naughty sisters - played by Mandy Moore and Claire Holt - aren't awfully audible from anniversary other, or alike absolute interesting. And already Captain Matthew Modine drops them abdicate in his decayed bluff cage, the becloud turns into a addled muddle.

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Literally. The amnion are aphotic and black and administrator Johannes Roberts insists on cutting aggregate in bound closeup. We get an abominable lot of jerky, bleared shots of people's eyes, and regulators, and white-knuckled hands, but the absolute activity sequences are a blur.

You may acquisition yourself on the bend of your seat. But it'll alone be because you're analytical at the screen, aggravating to amount out what's activity on.

The score, by the duo tomandandy, is able and the bluff is impressive, whenever we get a acceptable attending at him. But Moore and Holt aren't accustomed abundant to do but scream or blow or blow for breathe - it's like alert in on addition else's atrocious buzz call.

And the script, which Roberts co-wrote, is acutely obvious; every time you apprehend him answer article like "the bends," or "nitrogen narcosis," you apperceive it's activity to become a artifice aberration aural the abutting 15 minutes. (The final aberration is decidedly pointless.)

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True, there's not a lot of chargeless claret here, acknowledgment to its accomplishment to authority assimilate a PG-13 appraisement (if it were fabricated today, "Jaws" ability accept to action not to get to an R). Nor does the camera leer at its swimsuited victims, the way "The Shallows" did. But the storytelling never hooks you. The thrills are toothless.

And the movie, finally, flounders.

Ratings note: The becloud contains violence.

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