A tribute to Scott & Cameron that Scott & Cameron should take a queue from. What those two islands of men have forgotten is that this kind of adventure is SO much more enjoyable to watch when there is skillful competence in the crew. People doing the best possible job they can under duress allows the audience to get behind them, to root for them, and to stay attached to how it turns out. Think about prometheus and convenant and how they were such terrible movies - why? Because every character completely sucked at everything and screwed everything up and that was the only reason anything went wrong in the first place. It's a lazy hack writing technique called the idiot ball and its an insult to anyone willing to give them their time. It's asking far too much of the audience to root for incompetent, obstinate idiots. There were some cheesy edits, however, particularly when the action picked up. The shots suddenly lapsed into cheap music video techniques of rapidly speeding up and slowing down-- whatever, it was a taste call that didn't quite ace it. I did appreciate some of the jump cuts, however, like when you know they have to do several steps to accomplish something and they just jump to them having done it (in and out of airlocks, etc.). Otherwise I really appreciated how tight and focused it was the whole time. It never spun out and forgot the urgency of it all. A note regarding some other reviews: it's not tentacles on a face that makes something "Lovecraftian." Read a book.
Review of Underwater
