Reviews by johanlefourbe

I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Mandy Moore, I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I was also wondering how they would develop a whole movie solely on the concept of 2 girls in a shark cage. Well, the title was already a major spoiler which wasn’t really a good start. Still, I always had a weak spot for such minimalistic features with only 2 characters with only 1 location and the sharks looked quite awesome and were fairly convincing so the damned thing actually had some potential. However, there was one thing that pretty much ruined the whole movie for me. Indeed, even though Mandy Moore and Claire Holt were both quite charming (even though I heard of her before, it was in fact the very first time I saw Claire Holt in action), I really had a hard time to care about their characters though. First of all, they could have paid more attention to the intro to properly introduce the 2 girls. It was not it was bad but it was seriously generic but I have to admit that it wasn’t a big deal. However, the big issue was how they kept screaming and, when they would finally settle down, they would be then talking all the time which was just so idiotic since they were supposed to be cautious about how much oxygen they used. Of course, you could argue that they were panicking but it did make their characters rather cringe-inducing to behold. I mean, can you imagine if their characters would have been slightly more cool-headed and completely silent for most of the duration? It would have been much more entertaining to behold. Finally, with their erratic and rather irresponsible behaviour, there is no way they could have lasted for so long under the water with their oxygen supply. Anyway, to conclude, because these 2 main characters were rather annoying, I didn’t care much for the damned thing after all and I don’t think it is really worth a look. 

Following the mess during the production of this movie, I wasn’t expecting much but, after being stuck for years in development hell, they still apparently managed to release this movie after all so I have to admit that I was still curious about the end result. Well, unfortunately, the damned thing turned out to be pretty weak, I’m afraid. Eventually, the only positive thing about this flick was that it did provide some kind of (unintentional) metaphor about Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. Indeed, Heard was basically playing a gorgeous but eventually rather vapid and talentless girl whose only skill was to manipulate all the men around her. Concerning Depp, the once very talented actor was once again playing another character hiding being some massive layer of hideous makeup and some rather eccentric costumes meaning the guy didn’t really have to act at all. Eventually, they both played some rather ugly and destructive individuals who didn’t care much if their reckless behavior had any impact on the people around them which had a rather hairy resemblance with how they seem to be for real. Anyway, they were not even the worst character/actor in this dreadful movie. Indeed, Jim Sturgess was indeed just awful delivering one of his worst performances so far. It was not all, there was also a narrator played Billy Bob Thornton who was stuck playing a talentless washed-up writer which is such an old and tired gimmick. Basically, the whole thing was filled with some seriously unlikeable and really uninteresting characters stuck into a very convoluted and rather tedious tale. Concerning the directing, it was the directorial debut of Mathew Cullen, a guy who sounded like he came from a ‘Twilight’ novel, and, even if he blamed the producers for butchering his movie, his directing style was hardly convincing and even rather pretentious. Anyway, to conclude, the movie was borderline unwatchable and you should probably avoid it.