If like me, you were lured in by the trailer, which to be fair for those of us that like shark movies, even though they're nearly all terrible, you can be forgiven for thinking this one would be different....
.....It wasn't unfortunately.
On the plus side, as is so often the case it is a nice idea, I love the idea of those cave sharks, blind, relying on sound, great, only they looked a little like Jaws III at times, and were a little on the dim side. The characters were such, that you didn't care if they got eaten or not, and apart from the quite brilliant scene used in the trailer (you can see why) it didn't really deliver many scares.
I won't say it was atrocious, because it wasn't, it is more what I'd class as a fun movie.
How long before a dive into the waters of The Arctic, and divers get terrified by Greenland sharks? One day.
Mehh, 4/10.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
2019
Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
2019
Action / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Keywords: sequelcreatureteenage girlmexicoshark
Plot summary
47 Meters Down: Uncaged follows the diving adventure of four teenage girls (Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju and Sistine Stallone) exploring a submerged Mayan City. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly Great White Sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
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It's fun in small doses, but generally disappointing.
Interminable underwater scenes
I wasn't particularly impressed by the first 47 METERS DOWN but this sequel, UNCAGED, is the real pits (no pun intended). There's no cage diving this time around, just an all-female group of annoyances who decide to go diving in a remote beauty spot only to discover that a number of sinister sharks are intent on having them for breakfast, lunch and tea. The idea has potential, as do most monster flisks, but it's the shoddy execution that really lets this one down. The viewer sits through the boring set-up with the block-headed protagonists (Stallone's daughter among them),only to then have to put up with an hour of interminable underwater shaky-cam scenes which boil down to jump scares and little else.
underwater thriller
Grant (John Corbett) has brought his family down to Mexico for his cave diving business. His daughter Mia (Sophie Nélisse) gets bullied at school. His step-daughter Sasha (Corinne Foxx) is not happy with her new family either. The students are set to leave on a glass-bottom boat tour. Sasha convinces Mia to join her friends for an outing of their own. Mia leads the girls in a dive of a submerged Mayan ruin. All goes to hell with they are confronted by a cave shark.
The underwater thriller has some appeal but also a lot of difficulties. Despite a big mask, it is often tough to differentiate between each character. It's not quite jumping the shark but it's in the ballpark. It's highly unlikely that sharks could grow to such sizes with only food found in the caves. It would be more reasonable to have an ocean going shark get accidentally trapped underground. The final ending is pre-determined by the movie setup. It ends exactly as I expected. The details are somewhat problematic. Instead of a flare, she needs to get a spear gun. The slow motion needs to be eliminated. There is no way that people are getting chomped and still walk away.