Granted, I hadn't even heard about this 2019 movie titled "Sea Fever" from writer and director Neasa Hardiman before now in 2020 when I was given the chance to sit down and watch it. I was lured in with the promise of it being a mixture of "The Abyss" meeting "The Thing".
Well, that promise was sort of correct in a way I suppose, but not as much as I would have liked it to be. I sat through the movie, and I will say that while the movie definitely is watchable and entertaining enough for what it turned out to be, the movie failed to really win me over. Why is that? Well, simply because there was so much squandered potential to this movie. It could have been so much more than what it turned out to be.
The storyline was nicely orchestrated by writer and director Neasa Hardiman, but sadly what was so nicely built up never really found a climax. There was no peek to the build-ups, which essentially ruined the movie, and left it in the gutter of mediocrity.
The acting in the movie was good, and they had some nice actors and actresses on the cast list. Just a shame that they were limited by a very generic script serving as anchors around their legs.
It should be said that the special effects in the movie were good. And I really enjoyed the underwater scenes with the tendrils. But sadly, good CGI could only do so much to salvage the storyline.
I am rating "Sea Fever" a mere four out of ten stars. And this is hardly a movie that I will sit down to watch a second time, truth be told.
Well, that promise was sort of correct in a way I suppose, but not as much as I would have liked it to be. I sat through the movie, and I will say that while the movie definitely is watchable and entertaining enough for what it turned out to be, the movie failed to really win me over. Why is that? Well, simply because there was so much squandered potential to this movie. It could have been so much more than what it turned out to be.
The storyline was nicely orchestrated by writer and director Neasa Hardiman, but sadly what was so nicely built up never really found a climax. There was no peek to the build-ups, which essentially ruined the movie, and left it in the gutter of mediocrity.
The acting in the movie was good, and they had some nice actors and actresses on the cast list. Just a shame that they were limited by a very generic script serving as anchors around their legs.
It should be said that the special effects in the movie were good. And I really enjoyed the underwater scenes with the tendrils. But sadly, good CGI could only do so much to salvage the storyline.
I am rating "Sea Fever" a mere four out of ten stars. And this is hardly a movie that I will sit down to watch a second time, truth be told.