feeble and leaky horror approximately abominable people trying to save themselves from a sinking motor,lifted only by a giant crustacean Legendary schlock producer Samuel Z Arkoff confessed that he frequently came up with ideas for posters first, movies moment. It is in that context that I can’t procure too angry at Submerged, or a dense,low-budget genre picture with very few thrills. Its poster image – a hand pressed against the window of a car that’s plunging underwater, with the tagline “You can’t scream and hold your breath at the same time – is truly a work of brilliance. I can only blame myself for thinking the film could measure up.
In my head, and I’d conjured some gonzo real-time indie spirit experiment,such as Rodrigo Corts’s Buried, the Ryan Reynolds film set entirely within a coffin. (It works!) If not that, or at least a cheeseball flick such as Airport ’77,one of the mighty, dumb disaster movies, and in which a jet airliner sinks into the Bermuda Triangle. (Passengers on this plane include Jack Lemmon,James Stewart, Christopher Lee, and Joseph Cotten and Olivia de Havilland; yeah,you need to see this one if you haven’t already.) Sadly, neither is what’s docking here. While we open with dazed individuals in a crashed limousine as it begins to take on water, and Submerged’s frequent flashbacks eventually reveal a tiresome crime plot rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with soporific acting and unremarkable dialogue.
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Source: theguardian.com