But, of course, she continues to give in to the whims of her little sister and boards the questionably seaworthy boat. On meeting the boys at the pier from where they will head out into open waters, Lisa gets cold feet, especially when she sees the boat, meets the captain, and sees the rusted cage and hoist. Lisa, not so much, but she acquiesces to Lisa’s humorous needling and agrees to go along. It’s clear from the start that Louis and Ben are as fun-loving as Kate so when they propose a day trip to go shark cage-diving, she’s all in. Younger sister Kate is the upbeat energetic one in this family as she is game for anything, anytime, anywhere, as she evidences when hooking the girls up with two guys they meet, Louis and Ben. Lisa’s whole purpose in taking this trip is to show the ex that she’s not a bore, and can be as spontaneous and fun as the next person. Older sister Lisa is somewhat of a bore, or so she’s been told by her ex for whom she is pining away. We first meet sisters Lisa and Kate vacationing in Mexico. Without giving away any spoilers, the ultimate twist in 47 METERS DOWN is truly one of the finest “OMG” moments to come along in many a day, a perfect end to a film that has more than enough bite thanks to the building of unrelenting tension-riddled atmosphere. Roberts has a gift for building tension, but more importantly, throwing you off the scent of the expected. I was already aware of director Johannes Roberts’ work thanks to “Storage 24″. An Entertainment Studios release.How can you have a summer without a shark movie? You can’t! So get ready to dive into danger 47 METERS DOWN! MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense peril, bloody images, and brief strong languageĬast: Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew ModineĬredits: Directed by Johannes Roberts, script by Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera. It still has a hint of “Just Wait for Netflix” about it, but that denies you the fun of sitting in the dark, laughing and muttering at the characters on the screen, with a hundred other fans of cheap thrills and summer cinema shark cheese. And it manages the odd surprise twist, too. Silly as it sounds, “47 Meters Down” is downright intense.
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And Roberts, a horror vet (“The Other Side of the Door”) knows the when, where and how to place his shocks. The plot presents the sisters with some awful dilemmas and the viewer with plenty of “Oh come on” moments.īut any thriller set in the blue-grey isolation of the domain of sharks is fraught with possibilities for frights. They’re running out of air, and will get the bends if they ascend too quickly.Īnd the fact that the boat crew has filled the water with crimson chum, luring Great White Sharks - actually quite rare in the too-warm/too BP-polluted waters of the Gulf? That’s just another, grislier way to die. Then, the crane breaks and they’re dropped to the bottom, out of radio range. “Is this even safe?” is replaced with “Think of the (social media) pictures!” Her ex will have to rethink his whole “boring Lisa” complaint. Lisa’s never dived in her life, but they don’t need to know that. But the corners-cutting captain ( Matthew Modine) is American, the actual gear is top drawer - full-face masks with radio links. The boat may look like it’s seen better days, and the actual shark cage they’ll sit in when they’re lowered five meters down appears to be held together by rust.
Why not an impulse trip into the Gulf on a low-rent shark experience charter with two local hunks they’ve just met? Sister Kate (Holt) is her replacement companion on this holiday, somebody to help her shake the funk that being dull and predictable has gotten Lisa into. Lisa (Moore) is just getting over a breakup.
Moore and Holt plays sisters vacationing in sunny Mexico, where the drinks have umbrellas and the rules for dive charters are, we’re told, pretty lax. So never mind the blips of logic in the script, the fact that it requires Mandy Moore to shriek into her mask - “We’re gonna DIE down here!” - too many times, to narrate everything she (and um, we) see her do. What’s summer without an “Open Water” or “The Shallows”? Sharks are still scary, even if Asia is devouring them like the potato chips of the sea. The film’s star, Mandy Moore, has experienced a career re-boot, thanks to TV’s hit weeper, “This is Us.” Claire Holt (“Pretty Little Liars,” “H2): Just Add Water”) has always looked great in a swimsuit.Īnd the murky blue void that co-writer/director Johannes Roberts and underwater camera specialist Mark Silk present has menace enough without the not-noticeably-digital sharks that menace our protagonists. A great wrong - Ok, a minor wrong - is righted with the belated theatrical release of “47 Meters Down,” a trapped-in-a-shark-cage thriller whose production values suggest it deserves better than a direct-to-video fate.
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