Open Sea: The Depth Monster tells the story of four friends who go to an exotic island in the Pacific Ocean to kayak and dive. But the rest comes to an end when they begin to pursue the great white shark.
We can safely say that the genre of horror films and thrillers has long outlived itself and to come up with something really interesting is simply very difficult. Another proof of this was the film directed by Andrew Trauki. This film is nothing new in terms of history. Moreover, the entire script is woven from a huge number of different cliches and cliches of the genre, which have long been rubbed to holes. Hence, it is not surprising that when viewing this tape, they are not actually fascinating and not interesting when viewing. Especially against the background of such a meager personal drama, which looks frankly fake and stupid after “Balley” with BlakeLife in the title role.
After filming “Open Seas: New Victims” in 2010, Trauki suddenly decided to shoot a sequel to his own work. It would seem that the advantage in the hands of Trauka and in 12 years it would be possible to conduct a thorough “work on mistakes”. However, in this case, Trauki shows only regression. "New victims" looked much more interesting and dynamic. In this case, the atmosphere in the picture is, but it actually does not work. Sharks on the screen are very small, but even more spoils the impression of not only scanty visual effects, but also “crooked” shooting. Collectively, turning the film into a kind of blanket.
It did not make the proper impression and the cast. Actresses are certainly cute and attractive. But played quite superficially and further "fed for sharks" alas do not develop.
3 out of 10
Open Sea: The Deep Monster is another frankly weak horror film and a survival thriller on the theme of sharks, which alas repeats the mistakes of its predecessors. Creating the impression of a completely secondary, cheap and boring picture, the viewing of which is sorry for the time spent.
Unskillful hunter against weak-willed victims. Only the viewer suffers.
I love shark movies. But I will be honest and, probably, still will not open America, but 'Jaws' Spielberg is still a benchmark in its shark subgenre. (but this fact does not negate the presence of other quite watchable films on this topic).
This is a growing tension, against the background of the so far serene water horizon, an ominous fin and an attack of a primitive predator - all this expected set excites the blood every time. But this picture managed ' to fumble' its main genre components. Any tension evaporates thanks to a talentless scenario. It seemed that it was easier - three maidens, the sea and a huge shark. But the family drama interferes in acquaintance with the characters, which serves only to steal screen time and excessive reflection. Characters for some reason always tend to separate, swim away and always just scream, pricking their eyes in their inaction. The fish misses one shot, it easily eats an adult, and the child slips through the teeth. That people, that shark, all of them do not shine with intelligence, killing completely interest in the film. And the bloodthirsty ending surprises with its inhumanity - here the entire underwater world is a little bald.
Is that what could go wrong? Pretty girls, beautiful landscape and huge shark. But on the other side of the scales, such disadvantages as a very mediocre acting pitch, lack of logic, a weak instinct for self-preservation, both in humans and in the shark, conveniently located. And the ever-elusive legs, naturally, at the last moment, began to irritate after the second self-repeat, but, alas, not the last.
I will not recommend the film for viewing, this spectacle is a frank empty, clearly genre untenable. Don't waste your time!!!
In this film, female fear is the brand, it is the mark of the whole plot.
This is the anthem of all modern feminism. The main character Nicky (played by Teresa Leanne), her sister and two friends go to an exotic island in the Pacific Ocean. Director Trauki does not give peace of mind the fact that Spielberg became a hitmaker with “Jaws” (1975). “Jaws” (1975) Spielberg does not give rest to directors who have a creative crisis. Think: “Of the four main characters, who will survive?” The white shark appears as a predator with the intelligence of an exquisite killer. Director Trauki made a passing Australian film for an online cinema. I don't like horror, but it's more of a thriller. As the main characters experience feelings of guilt and animal fear. It's a very boring movie. It was not interesting to watch a shark hunt girls. The director makes tension at any moment of the film. I don't know, but horror movies, especially shark movies, don't appeal to me. I probably had enough when I watched Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) in a video show in the 1980s.
Online audiences love to watch women’s fights and women’s fears. In this film, female fear is the brand, it is the mark of the whole plot. Women's fear, women's guilt, and here's a shark thriller. I didn’t like the movie because it focused on female fear. It is an anthem for all Australian feminists who must overcome their fear. Director Trauki gives the main characters a sense of guilt. And only the fear of a predator can switch the heroines from self-digging. Australians love to make films about the ocean, about nature, about survival in the wild jungle.
Director Trauki made a feminist film. There are no men in the movie. All heroes are women struggling with their fears and guilt. This is a feminist thriller for the online cinema.
"To face your fears" - and here is a cheap thriller. Diving the main characters, as a reminder to Russians about rest abroad.
New shark movie. From Australia itself. I decided to take a look.
To be honest, it’s a very nice movie. Yes, these are not the great first Jaws, nor even the recent beautiful Shoal. But don't mess with Aj and the like.
Nice movie. Girls and fish. Small and large.
The director and screenwriter of the film was someone Andrew Trauki. And he did his job pretty well. Especially as a director. Like a screenwriter. Still, post-traumatic syndrome in one of the heroines sometimes greatly interfered. Anyway, why was it so complicated? Well, a note of feminism (of normal male characters, only the boy and grandfather of the aborigines in third-rate roles) was also not particularly here.
It's not a bad movie. Summer. Beautiful. The warm southern sea. Islands. Schools of beautiful tropical fish. Girls (young women). Pretty.
It turned out to be a beautiful (in places) movie. And the story about how a group of women once went kayaking to swim between the reef islands. And everything there was good, with the only bad luck of the girls – they were interested in the great shark. For gastronomic purposes. Well, here we go.
The shark will be like a shark here. Only in one scene will her attack be too quick-to-special effect. And otherwise quite worthy fish, a descendant of the heroines of the series “Jaws” and the like.
There will be blood, but no excess. It'll be a little fantastic. But in general -
It's a very normal story about a great shark.
A special “thank you” I want to say to our domestic distributors and localizers. What, hammerfish, monster of depths? yes, the open sea will be. But between the reef islands. And even worse advertising poster picture. The likes of which we have seen many times. Cheap with a really monster like a long-extinct megaladon. It is not a shame to mislead the viewer.
Summary.
Pretty beautiful summer movie. The sea. Sun. Girls. Beautiful and strong.
It's nice to see this once. Especially on the big screen.
So I went to the movies for the film 'Open Sea: Monster of Depth' and after watching it I had quite mixed feelings.
In the center of the plot of the girl Nicky and her girlfriend, they go to the island on a 3-day trip to engage in sea hunting and kayaking, but it turns out that in these waters lurked someone else... a huge white shark! Will the girls be able to cope and survive this brutal battle with a monster on its territory?
The plot is typical of all shark movies - there are people, they swam into the ocean and they were attacked by a shark. All. It was a little unclear the beginning of the film, where it was about the sister of Nicky - to see the director wanted to catch up with the drama, but if you omit the beginning of the film and show the film from the moment they went to the island - nothing in the plot will change.
In general, watching the female logic in this film is one torment. I don’t know how to tell you without spoilers. In general, many actions are extremely illogical and dangerous, and some are so delusional! And you look at it and you think, what nonsense! How could that even come to mind? Or here: the girls almost escaped and then one of them does something incomprehensible and puts everyone under attack (the situation with Demi).
The plot itself is quite flimsy, it feels like something is missing here ... it seems like it is not filled or filled. The ending is also kind of simple, I had a question: ' And what is it?'
In terms of acting, I have nothing to say. I wasn’t impressed, I wasn’t excited, or I was impressed by someone else’s role. No, it was normal, watchable, but nothing more.
The graphics are cool in the film, there is definitely a plus, I think that in some moments, when the shark was under water, shots of a real shark were shown, it was very realistic.
As for the music, everything according to the precepts 'Jaws' - oppressive and jerky. The only thing is that the shark's approach is not accompanied by music. But it even creates an additional moment of surprise.
In general, the film is not bad, but for once, no more. I did not regret the time, but I will not review or advise anyone.
6 out of 10
I learned that the Australian director Andrew Traucky, who directed this film 'Open Sea: The Deep Monster', has also made a film with a similar title, although these two films are not related and do not overlap. In the same film, Trauki acted not only as a director, but also as a screenwriter, and the film he turned out not bad.
Of course, there were a lot of films about sharks out and out, I myself have said many times that shark themes have always attracted me, so any films about sharks have not been released, they are mostly interesting to me.
The plot of this film revolves around the girl Nicky (Teresa Leanne) and her sister Annie (Saskia Archer), and their friends who decided to relax on an island in the Pacific Ocean, kayaking and diving, but the beautiful and calm Pacific Ocean harbors and hides dangers, one of these dangers - sharks. The girls themselves will become victims of the shark.
To begin with, I will say that the film is very beautiful, given that the film was shot in real tropical conditions, then there was no other way to wait, a real tropical paradise.
The actresses were also pleased, especially the main character Nicky, and her relationship with her younger sister Annie, also showed us what they had to endure in the past.
I think the main component of the film is the realism of the film, as well as the behavior of the shark, we were not shown the illogical behavior of the girls and the unnatural behavior of the shark.
As a result, 'Open Sea: Monster of Depth' - a good and visually beautiful film about a hopeless situation, from which there is always a way out, or try to survive at any cost when the creatures of nature attack you, and you have nothing left but to adapt.
The shark had nothing to do with it, it's just that we've been swimming for 40 years. . .
'Less sharks, more water':
1) The heroine’s phobia is sucked out of the finger. You can feel all the feelings of a person jumping out of a window just by looking at him. The whole film will show you the parishes of nonsense, there is fear, there is no her – nothing would change, but in the end we will of course overcome everything!
2) Shark degraded mutant - breaks healthy wooden rafts, drags boats and even an adult seal bursts, but a small frog just scratches. . .
(3) You need to operate on your child immediately:
Do you take a child and take a boat to get a doctor?
- abandon the child, put 3 adult carcasses on the boat, and also attach the ballast to the boat?
(4) I don’t understand your love for crosses on the side of the road. Here their cockroaches, apparently they whisper - a great idea, on the coast to throw angular containers of glass!
(5) Out of the whole tape, there is probably only 1 stupid moment that can be justified by a stressful situation. . .
The trailer was interesting, I watched it, but I will not watch it again!
I didn’t like the fact that Andrew Trauki from the very beginning focused on problems far from the main event of the film – a collision with a shark. In principle, I doubted that it was the main thing. It still feels the same – secondary. There were more emotions after the initial shots. They became stronger, and they continued to hold on. There was no tension from the fight with the shark, from the situation in which the heroes found themselves. It is not for nothing that in films like this, the bundle is always light, distracting with beauty and relaxing the brain - all in order to then suddenly turn on, concentrate, begin to worry and worry. These emotions gain the upper hand when the characters meet the shark, at the first awareness of danger and loss. Here, too, there was tension from the very beginning, and fear of a very different kind, which can completely confuse the viewer. I was joking, of course, but I asked my neighbor if we had come to a shark movie. This is how it turned out - indistinct.
I don’t want to praise the director for trying to make the film Deeper than his genre suggests, because because of this attempt to experiment, the whole story went into ruin. It turned out to be raw, broken into separate episodes and segments, somewhere even - sucked out of the finger. If in his first film, the motives and decisions of the characters were clear, then it is quite difficult to explain some of their actions and actions. Because of the abundance of shortcomings, I also want to find fault with ' technical' shark behavior. Well, how did it happen that first she ' swallows' an adult, then bites a child, and at the next attack and does bite only the vest, leaving no scratches? Maybe a little presumptuous to talk about the behavior of sharks, little understanding of them, but even in comparison with the first film Trauki, there is clearly a different view of them and the Director.
As for the characters, only Teresa Leanne left a pleasant impression, in the plot - Nick, around whom the whole story is built. This, by the way, is typical for dramatic films, while ' films about sharks' build the plot around the situation of a collision with a shark and, as a rule, do not spare the lives of the heroes for its full disclosure. This is not even about the fact that the film is not enough & #39; meat & #39; and it is not scary. Here we are talking about the fact that the film differently placed accents, which could not get and actors who played other female roles. They look unconvincing both on the screen and on the screen.
I am surprised that at low ratings on Kinopoisk Open Sea: Monster of Depth was awarded with some commendable reviews, and these reviews themselves have a positive rating. So I'm going to focus on the negative side of the film, because there's so much that you've been told.
Initially, before buying tickets for the session, I was alarmed that the cinema did not show me the 18+ marking, although among those going to the box office there were paintings to which such an age bar was attributed. However, I thought that a movie about sharks can not be boring, because a bad atmosphere can always be compensated by a relaxing “meat”.
The first half of the film was close to perfect: beckoning landscapes, sane characters, logical actions, forcing the approach of something terrible music and even some kind of entanglement, further explaining the fears of one of the heroines.
A scatter of problems appears in the picture when the characters decide to return to the “battlefield”: there is a lack of logic in actions, and tediousness, and frightening idle music without a Malomalic screamer at the end, and ridiculous computer graphics, which tried to compensate for the fleeting display, so that this technical blunder is not very striking.
Most disappointing was the lack of action and active contact between the shark and humans. A composition that prepares us for something inevitable sounds constantly, and there is no clear action and development of events after it. In the first half of the film, such a move was welcomed, because the viewer needs to be confused: not to show anything when you really expect it, and then sharply frighten when your smell dulls. After an hour of viewing, you are already saturated with this empty suspense so much that it becomes anyway for the events following the formidable music. To the right of me in a group of 3 people sat a girl who in the first 40 minutes of the “Open Sea” to such “scarlets” reacted with an open squeal, and in the second half of the picture her friends had to artificially pull out of her squeal, pinching an impressionable coward at the most unexpected moments.
Open Sea: The Depth Monster is a film that tries to be scary rather than scary. Lovers of red props in the frame do not recommend, because the sharp moments there is a drop in the ocean. Literally and figuratively. . .
It has become a tradition to go to shark movies every summer. But the fact that instead of a thriller about killers from the depths, I will get on a thrash comedy, I did not expect.
By item.
1. Head of heroines. Remembering their names is problematic. Only one name was fully grasped, and that was because he was shouted a hundred times while the character was finished. The rest were distinguished as: Asian, blonde with pigtails and the queen of drama.
Not only are their acting abilities very conditional, but they are also strange characters.
They do not help each other at all.
All mutual assistance in 90% of cases comes down to shouting ' swim slowly here!!' from the boat instead of getting closer to this boat. In addition, the main character has post-traumatic syndrome due to the death of a relative. This is expressed in a dull sticking into the void with trembling silicone lips and extremely twitchy and loud flashbacks. Both on behalf of the victim and the killer. . .
2. Logic. She's not here.
As I understand it, of the 4 girls, two are professional divers, one with little experience and one with a paddle for the first time. And I don't know how to explain ' excellent ' the decision of two professional girls to leave two ' green ' in the middle of the ocean with the words ' wait here, we'll make a fire!' It's not fate to swim together, is it? They don’t even look at them!
They have no equipment at all. Generally.
There is no means of communication, no first aid kits, no knife. Only masks with tubes, flippers and harpoons (but everyone forgot about them). And this is with the supernatural ability of these girls to blow absolutely everything, from kayaks to oars.
3. Shark.
It's either a troll shark or a sucker. It is amazing how this animal survived. It smears past the victim's rambling legs in a few mm, bites exclusively plastic and wooden objects and scares from afar with a bitten fin. If something of flesh and blood falls into the mouth, it is released either with small scratches or completely whole. Apparently, this shark has extremely small and soft teeth, or it is vegetarian. She also loses her prey when she dies in the water. I think it's a bit of a mess too.
4. Technical joints.
Unfortunately, they are very visible. The islands between which the characters move play the same place. Land disappears behind the backs of the girls a second after sailing, provided that one island is perfectly visible from the other.
The girls’ hair then dries in a minute, then stays wet for the road to home, a conversation there and the way to another house, taking into account the change of clothes. Obviously, they filmed in shallow water where depth is needed. And the girls are clearly on something, so high and motionless they keep in the water.
And of course graphics. It is clear that the shots with the shark ' glued ' with girls, but did it terrible. With any interaction with the characters, the shark twitches like a suspended Skype, and in one frame almost crumbled into pixels. Not to mention the moment where the speed of the shark under water was as if it spit out of a cannon in the manner of a torpedo.
Bottom Line: It all looks like a school project, even though there were all the ingredients for quality cinema.
I’ve always loved thrillers and horror stories about the ocean. Ever since I first caught the eye of Steven Spielberg’s original Jaws, I’ve been trying not to miss a single high-profile film in this extraordinary sub-genre ever since. At one time, I was pleased with Rennie Harlin’s “Deep Blue Sea”, “Sharks” with Kasper Van Ding and now, as you can understand, I simply could not deny myself watching the film “Open Sea: Depth Monster”, which was just released on Russian screens.
If we talk about the plot of the film, it tells us the story of Nick and her friends, who decided to go away from civilization for a few days to the warm ocean to benefit the soul and body to spend a weekend alone with nature and at the same time honor the memory of sister Nick, who left our world prematurely. And so that no one bothers them, the girls go to a remote island, where there should be no one besides them, and just there they can spend time as they want.
Having decided to swim near the shore on their kayaks, the heroines, among other things, are also engaged in diving, because in the local picturesque places it is simply a crime not to enjoy the unique beauty of the underwater world. However, at the most inopportune moment they are attacked by a great shark! She has already tasted fresh blood and will not let go of the girls. The only hope for salvation is a crossing to another island, but such a task becomes almost impossible under the existing conditions.
Although I have watched a lot of films about sharks, but the film “Open sea: Monster of depth” managed to leave very vivid emotions, because the film is made extremely naturalistic and you literally feel the danger that lies under the dazzling sea surface. One wrong move and the shark strikes. This is an enemy with whom it is impossible to negotiate or compromise. In some ways, the “Open Sea” resembles the cult “Descent” of Neil Marshall, but only instead of caves we find ourselves in the ocean under the rays of the bright sun.
Plus, the film can be distinguished by the fact that the main character, Nick, has a special motivation and personal drama. Usually we see in such a movie teenagers who simply want to have fun by the sea, and they are not particularly sorry. But Nick from the first minutes reveals himself to us from all sides, we see her emotions, experiences, feelings. She's been under a lot of stress and there's a logic to why she decided to go to the island. Well, then the film becomes more acute and the story of survival begins.
There is less and less time to save the girls. One of them is seriously injured, others are gradually losing strength and it will be very difficult for them to get to the rescue island with help. So while watching, you will definitely not be able to relax completely, because this is a really high-quality tense thriller, to break away from which is simply impossible.
“Open Sea: A Monster of Depth” turned out to be a film about sharks and the sea, which will definitely be remembered for a long time. In this regard, you can definitely believe me, since I love this genre very much and have revised all the really worthwhile novelties in it.
I always try to choose the most interesting horror films, from which you can not stop watching. In this genre, I watch almost everything from a variety of paranormal phenomena to stories about crocodiles and sharks. In fact, that’s why I wanted to see the movie “Open Sea: Monster from the Deep”, which just appeared on our screens. So it turned out that this is a really cool film, and it easily holds the attention until the very end.
Speaking of the plot, it unfolds on a picturesque island and in the ocean that surrounds it. Several friends, led by Nick and her sister Annie, decide to go here for a couple of days to dive into the depths, go kayaking and at least take a break from civilization, including the guys. In addition, this voyage should be for Nick the most important therapy, because in the recent past she suffered a great loss, which is so easy to cope. But here's the bad luck - just now in the local waters was a great shark, and apparently it is very, very hungry!
It is simply impossible to swim away from such an animal on ordinary kayaks, not to mention just swim. Yes, and call for help also does not work – too far the nearest village, which is located on another island, and mobile communication here does not catch. But staying in place is also not an option, because the shark has already struck and one of the girls was injured. Now her friends need to choose the safest option to deliver the girl to the medical center and at the same time do not become victims. Yes, only all plans begin to collapse by themselves when the shark attacks again, and this time it will not leave much room for maneuvers.
From the film you can easily get a real visual pleasure. Well, not for nothing the authors went to shoot to a real tropical island. Truth be told, I would love to relax here for a couple of days, forgetting everything. But still in the genre it is a tense thriller, which means it is worth paying attention to the plot, the characters and how they survive in absolutely terrible conditions.
The strongest roles, in my opinion, went to Teressen Leanne and Saskia Archer. They played two sisters, Nick and Annie, and somehow a kind of related chemistry formed between them. When one is in trouble, the second cannot be in peace and will do everything to save the loved one. However, if you remember the piercing prologue, then everything falls into place. Trouble brings together both on land and inlet, where the shark lives.
The girls have almost no equipment to fight such a dangerous monster. They are, in fact, at the mercy of themselves and in such emergency conditions they must show their strengths, which does not always come out. At some point I just wanted to scream and tell them what they were doing wrong! And in other episodes, on the contrary, it makes sense to praise them, because our heroines are not a mistake at all and they are not the first time out into the ocean. In general, the important thing here is that the film evokes emotions, and does not pass by you just like that. This was very important to me personally.
I liked Open Sea: The Depth Monster. The film is definitely worth your time and I guarantee you won’t forget it. And if you are also going on vacation in similar tropical lands, then after watching this film, you will probably still think carefully about where exactly you should go!
8 out of 10
A couple of years ago, there was already a film in the box office of the Open Sea series, which was directed by Australian director Andrew Trauki, but “Deep Monster” is a completely new, separate story that has nothing to do with what was before. Both films have similar motifs and suspense elements. But if you are not aware of the plot of the previous part, you can watch the new one with a pure heart. Tellingly, the film “Open Sea: Monster of Depth” was also directed by Trauki, who acted here not only as a director, but also as a screenwriter. Trauki had enough time to work out his story properly and I can say that he made a very worthy film.
The film introduces us to a professional diver girl Nick (Teressa Leanne), her younger sister Annie (Saskia Archer) and friends who decided to take a little away from the daily routine and other life experiences, and went to the island, where, except for a couple of vacationing women with children, no one else was. Having reached the destination, the girls immediately start entertaining, because according to the schedule they have only 3 days in the ocean, which means that you can not delay. Swimming in warm water, exploring the beautiful seabed and kayaking races become a real holiday for girls, however, as one would expect, the shark intervenes in history! . .
The girls were attacked, one of them was seriously injured. To save the wounded, it is necessary to call for help, which is on the neighboring island. But if in any other situation it's a trifling matter, then when you're hunted by a shark and you don't let it relax, it becomes very serious. But the girls have no choice anyway - they have to go swimming against all odds.
First of all, I want to say that the film was very beautiful. Here you look and get real pleasure from filming, landscapes, beautiful heroines and in general the aesthetics of the whole story. That is why I like to watch such films in the summer, because they at least briefly take us to such a desired resort.
A few words deserve here Teresa Leanne, who I know from the TV series “The Vampire Diaries”. Teresa’s physical fitness is great, but what I liked most was how she interacts with her younger sister Annie. We’ll find out what they’ve been through recently and understand why it’s so important for the sisters to go to the island. This is not just a walk in the sea, but an opportunity to cope with sad thoughts. But who would have thought that a shark would attack a girl?
Filming took place in real tropical lands. The main characters had to perform most of the tricks on their own, and this deserves respect. They kayaked, engaged in real diving without scuba diving, and naturally swim a huge distance on the sea in order to really look more tired. This approach deserves attention.
Next, I want to talk about the atmosphere, as well as tension and suspense. Usually in such films, the characters behave somehow illogically and thereby cause audience indignation, but specifically in this case I want to say that the authors wisely approached the matter and tried to make sure that the girls acted adequately as possible and did not raise doubts that they actually want to survive.
“Open Sea: The Depth Monster” was a worthy film about sharks, tropics and girls in a desperate situation. This movie is definitely worth seeing. And for all his nightmares and horrors, he only spurs the desire to go on a new adventure.
8 out of 10