This was a surprisingly entertaining thriller movie with a few touches of horror. Underwater is directed by William Eubank who isn't a familiar director and directed only two movie previously, one of them being a sci-fi thriller called The Signal. This movie as has some clear sci-fi elements in it, but it is clearly going the route of horror. This movie also has a lot of familiar faces in it, but not the kind that got people to go to the theaters to watch this movie. Which is too bad, because the ending of this movie is theater worthy, but I settled for watching it at home as well.
This movie doesn't waste time with setup or built up. I mean it has like 3 maybe 5 minutes tops of exposition and then the fun starts. It's a lot more fun than the not impressive trailers show. It doesn't slow down at any moment. It just keeps going. The only downside to this is that you don't really care about the characters, but are you very entertained.
The movie takes place inside a drilling facility called Kepler 822, which is located in Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world. When Kepler is struck by an Earthquake, those who survived the structural damage must find a way to get to the rescue pods and reach land. However, but the time our heroes recover from the shock, most of the pods are gone and they have to find a new way to reach the surface, before the structure collapses.
In the movie Kristen Stewart plays Norah Price, a mechanical engineer. It is an ensemble movie, but yeah, she's the lead character. I haven't seen a lot of Kristen Stewart movies, but this feels like the first time that I've seen her acting in a movie. She's still a bit neurotic, but her facial expressions are spot on. Also, she has facial expressions in this movie. Shocking, I know. Vincent Cassel plays W. Lucien, the captain of the Kepler and not a totally assholes, shockingly as well. T.J. Miller plays Paul Abel, the guy who tells a lot of jokes, but a pretty decent guy as well. Jessica Henwick (Colleen Wing from Iron Fist) plays Emily Haversham, a biologist who is really bad in stressful situations. There are three other survivors as well and the movie focuses on everyone's effort as a team to survive. But, like I said, Norah is the main character in all of this.
Unlike most horror movies, these guys are not idiots. I mean really these people are really smart and capable. There is no – don't do that moments in this movie. You know the kind that you have in every horror movie that makes you wonder at the stupidity of the characters. None of that here. Once in the movie I thought about a question and one of the characters actually asked that question a few moments later, because it is the logical thing to ask in their situation. These are guys are survivors. They are not here to make stupid mistakes.
They have one mission. To find working pods that will get them back to surface. They will look out of each on the way and make the right decision. However, things can get pretty interesting underwater as they are in unmarked and unexplored territory. They find that some mysterious creatures are hindering their progress. The monster design in excellent. We see them just enough to make it horrorish and not a monster movie.
Also the ending of the movie was like super fun. My mouth dropped open. I don't want to spoiler it, even though the movie is sprinkled with clues as to where this movie is going, but I was still shocked. It was so much fun.
If you are still stuck in quarantine and you are starting to run out of things to watch, you should totally give this movie a try. It is now available on Amazon Prime.
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