Review of Underwater

Underwater (2020)
9/10
Good athmosphere of dread
8 April 2020
It has been a long while since we got a new good undersea horror movie. And this one, while slow in the first 5 minutes, goes of the rails into it fast.

Set in 2050, the realistic looking deep sea tech fails catastrophically. Communication lost and all escape pods gone. The survivors stuck on a sea elevator midpoint residential station now have only the option: go down.

You will feel claustrophobia out of the get go, skeptisim in the calmer parts, and paranoia as the survivors go deeper and deeper in search of means to escape the depth alone, leading to part the climax and questioning what really caused the catastrophe.

Only drawback is the smalltalk when nothing is happening. Preachy, annoying or just boring and meaningless. But overall makes sense in the situation.

A stronger horror film than most out there.
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