Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Sharks
Plot:
On the anniversary of her husband's death, a woman decides to recreate one of their most treasured memories together on a scuba-diving trip in the Florida Keys, unaware that the area is being patrolled by a group of thugs looking for sunken drugs in the same shark-infested waters.
Review:
This was a fairly solid if somewhat problematic genre effort. One of the better aspects to be had with this one comes from the strong and emotionally-charged setup that manages to provide this with some intriguing storylines. The main focus of her going around on the trip was that it meant a lot to her when her husband was alive, complete with her going through old memories to help reconnect with him on the trip, being used for healing as much as growth, once the situation had developed, once she came into contact with the drug-smugglers. The group looking for the remains of cargo left behind and sunken on the ocean floor in shark-infested waters and uses her as bait to complete their assignment creates a fun hurdle to complicate matters, so it all makes for a generally fun time, setting everything up.
Once that happens and the involvement becomes about retrieving the cargo on the ocean floor, the film manages to generate some incredibly fun action scenes with the attempts to get everything collected. The mix of diving scenes featuring the group being ambushed by the sharks in their underwater dives or the scenes of them chasing after the group while trying to get to safety give this some decent enough sequences while also featuring the fun of the different attempts to keep the upperhand over her while they go about their plans for trapping everyone inside the boat as they deal with the sharks. The action in the finale is a lot of fun and helps to add an extra bit to this one, which is graced with quite a lot of effective shark effects, which give this one quite a lot to enjoy.
There’s not much in the way of flaws for this one, but it manages to have some detrimental ones. The main issue here is the film’s insistence on way too many plotlines going on around the boat, with the businessman trying to get everything recovered to save face for the public, the secretive agent trying to keep her cover from the group, the dive for her husbands’ memory of their relationship, and the different lies that emerge once she agrees to help them. Things get way too complicated in here, and it keeps the sharks out of the way for a bit longer than it should, with long stretches detailing the different storylines so the sharks are an obstacle more than anything else. Combined with the cheesiness of the overall film, these are what bring this down overall.
Overview: ****/5
An immensely fun if somewhat flawed genre effort, there’s so much to like here that manages to hold it up over the few minor flaws that might hold it down only just slightly. Viewers with an interest in this style of genre fare or who are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here, while viewers not interested in this style will want to heed caution.
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