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Critic's Rating: 2.5
47 Meters Down: Uncaged Story: A dive goes awry for four teenagers when they get trapped in sunken ruins with great white sharks.

47 Meters Down: Uncaged Review: Mia (Sophie Nelisse) is having a tough time adjusting to her new school in Mexico. Her cooler stepsister Sasha (Corinne Foxx) doesn’t even acknowledge her existence. But when Sasha’s friends Alexa (Brianne Tju) and Nicole (Sistine Rose Stallone) plan to sneak off on a diving adventure, they decide to have Mia tag along. This soon turns into a nightmare when they explore a submerged temple whose ruins are also home to ancient great white sharks. One of them knocks over a column leading to a collapse that traps them underwater. The four girls need to avoid the bloodthirsty sharks while surviving on limited oxygen in their tanks as they find their way out.

It’s tricky to shoot and put together a film largely based underwater. There are limited options visually and narratively. But this film doesn’t care much about logic, so don’t go about wondering how the girls communicate with each other, for example. There are numerous other creative liberties taken and the film often becomes ridiculous. Perhaps it’s too much to expect from a shark movie, where you know what you’re in for – people eaten by sharks in many different and creative ways. Keeping that in mind, the film occasionally has engaging sequences, especially towards the climax. But it’s interspersed between such drab dialogue spewed by bland characters and predictable outcomes for certain characters, that it constantly struggles to keep you tuned in.

The actors have very little to work with, although they are adequate. Their characters are barely defined and expecting any more from the cast would be asking for too much. Although the production design should be applauded. It’s understandably difficult to put together the ruins of an underwater temple but the effort goes to waste. The film’s cinematography really struggles with those sequences – many scenes are darkly lit and impossible to decipher, especially when the action is meant to be chaotic and instill a sense of fear. It ends up being disorienting instead. The mediocre CGI doesn’t help much either. Instead of embracing the entertaining cheesiness of such a far-fetched premise, co-writer and director Johannes Roberts tries to stick to the basics of a creature feature and fails to create anything memorable.



Summary / Analysis

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Teenager Sasha (Corinne Foxx) goes to a secret lagoon with her stepsister Mia (Sophie Nélisse), and friends Alexa (Brianne Tju) and Nicole (Sistine Stallone), near a submerged Mayan city where Mia's father Grant (John Corbett), and his assistants Ben (Davi Santos) and Carl (Khylin Rhambo) are working in to prepare for a visit from a group of archaeologists the following week. After finding scuba gear, they decide to dive through the city, eventually reaching an ancient sacrificial chamber. There, they encounter Ben, who is suddenly devoured by a shark, causing a chain reaction that caves in the entrance. The girls swim deeper into the city to find another exit, and reach an air pocket. Meanwhile, Carl is eaten in another section of the city while Mia leaves the girls behind in an attempt to find her father, and finds Carl's body instead. Grant saves her from the shark, and reunite with the other girls, who have realized the shark is blind; having evolved within the caves. The group surfaces at a clearing where a pulley system is set in place. However, two sharks come to the surface, and Nicole panics. She attempts to climb up the rope as Alexa is going up, inadvertently causing the rope, and both of them to fall back into the water, where Nicole is eaten by the sharks.

The remaining survivors realize they'll have to swim even deeper to find another exit, but Grant is killed by a shark moments later. Mia, Sasha and Alexa swim into the caves alone, eventually coming upon a strong current which separates Sasha from the others before Alexa is attacked by one of the sharks; she escapes, but loses her oxygen tank, and drowns. Mia is also sucked into the current, and eventually reunites with Sasha before the two find a narrow crevice that leads to the surface, and they abandon their tanks to escape. At the surface, they see a boat that is chumming the water to attract sharks as part of a tour. Mia and Sasha get the tourists' attention as they are attacked by the sharks. While Mia makes it onto the boat Sasha is grabbed by a shark. Mia jumps back into the water with a flare gun, and shoots the shark, freeing Sasha. Sasha reaches the boat, but Mia is grabbed by another shark, which she escapes from by stabbing it in the eye using a shark tooth her father gave her. Mia swims to the boat, and reunites with Sasha as the boat's staff tend to their wounds.

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  1. What is the release date of '47 Meters Down: Uncaged'?
    Release date of Nia Long and John Corbett starrer '47 Meters Down: Uncaged' is 2019-08-30.
  2. Who are the actors in '47 Meters Down: Uncaged'?
    '47 Meters Down: Uncaged' star cast includes Nia Long, John Corbett, Sophie Nelisse and Brec Bassinger.
  3. Who is the director of '47 Meters Down: Uncaged'?
    '47 Meters Down: Uncaged' is directed by Johannes Roberts.
  4. What is Genre of '47 Meters Down: Uncaged'?
    '47 Meters Down: Uncaged' belongs to 'Adventure,Horror,Thriller' genre.
  5. In Which Languages is '47 Meters Down: Uncaged' releasing?
    '47 Meters Down: Uncaged' is releasing in English.