STORYLINE: An eclectic group of international passengers en route from Los Angeles to Shanghai are forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. The terrified group is forced to work together and overcome their differences if they hope to escape their sinking plane and the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.  (IMDb)

    There is a strong argument that 1975’s Jaws is the greatest shark movie that has been made. You won’t get one from me. The shark flocks, The Meg (2018), starring Jason Statham, and Sharkmado (2013) are guilty pleasures. 47 Meters Down (2017) was an entertaining shark film, but it’s 2019 sequel surpassed it. Why am I writing about shark films?  Deep Water is a brand new shark movie, that has just swam into cinemas. 

    Shark films can be scary.  Jaws proves that. They can be fun, cheesy B flicks. That’s what Skarkndo is.  Then there are just bad shark movies. Jaws The Revenge (1987), and that is all I am going to say about the fourth entry in the series. 

    Deep Water starts with the intensity of a plane crash. From there the film attempts to keep this intensity going. Deep Water lets the intensity slip. The movie tries to go for cheesy creature feature, at this point. 

    Deep Water limbos under this bar.  The movie focuses on the dramatics, which down plays the cheesy moments, that end up being underwhelming and far and few between. 

     Speaking of being underwhelmed, the visuals of this movie started bad.  From that point they went to worse. The sharks were barely shown, and looked stupid 

 when they showed up.   This had so much more potential to be a fun Roger Corman style effect, with the sharks, but that concept was apparently drowned.

   Deep Water missed the mark as an intense monster movie. On the other end of the spectrum, it dropped the ball as a cheesy creature feature. 

    Until next time, I will see you at the movies!