<em>Underwater </em>Entertains but Doesn’t Have Much Depth
Kristen Stewart stars in a film that dares to ask the chilling question, “What if you were underwater and something really bad happened?”
A deep-sea-diver movie is a close cousin to the greatest cinematic subgenre of all—the astronaut movie. The aesthetics are basically identical: Both rely on character actors decked out in chunky exploration suits, fumbling their way through postindustrial corridors while contending with loudly bleeping alerts from stern computer voices. Most important, both are set in harsh environments whose dangers are all the scarier for being unknown. William Eubank’s damp new horror, has all of those ingredients, and their presence was just enough to keep me entertained through a fundamentally silly 95 minutes at the theater.
