A sprig of potential self-delusion, meanwhile, initially proves suspenseful. ![]() There’s the fact that the charmless but likable-enough Vic doesn’t seem to have affairs of his own, only hobbies (for example, a garage full of well-fed snails this is not a joke). Rather, it’s an issue of whether he actually agreed to any of this. It’s not a question of whether Vic knows that his wife is sleeping with other men - everyone in their small, sultry town knows that much. The movie’s first intervention is to insert more of a question mark into this basic framework. ![]() In the novel, at least, Vic (played onscreen by Affleck) and Melinda Van Allen (de Armas) test the electric fence of their relationship by agreeing to an open marriage. And you’ve still got an hour-plus of movie left.ĭeep Water was adapted by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson ( Euphoria ) from the under-read 1957 novel by Patricia Highsmith, the master behind Mr. The movie’s got just enough ambiguity to make you wonder if it knows what it’s doing. And Deep Water ’s motivating bit of nonsense - a premise that insists we suspend our disbelief further out into the stratosphere with each passing scene - is almost riveting, for a little while, if only for its instability. De Armas, playing a maybe-unsuspecting fatale who sets a near-platoon of tall, handsome, bolts-for-brains men on the path to their senseless deaths, also counts for quite a bit. Affleck smile-grimacing his way through an everyday rich guy/closet-psycho routine for two hours also counts for… something. I laughed more than I was supposed to, which has to count for something. This is not to sound ungrateful for the accidental marks the movie’s got in its favor. The ingredients are largely there, but by even the standards of a genre that no one insists should make complete sense, the movie doesn’t really make sense. Not in a fun way: in an unsatisfying way. ![]() There are no ticket stubs in hell, only algorithms that promise not to leak our watch histories to the devil (and then do it anyway). The genre that lulls us into feeling like we’re cheating on “better” movies with so-called trash - and makes the infidelity forgivable. If any genre should be thriving in the Netflix era, it’s the genre that a respectable adult might prefer to watch at home to mitigate the guilt of such guilty pleasures. Erotic thrillers in their heyday were, after all, routine beneficiaries of the direct-to-video pipeline the theatrical successes of iconic high-grossers, like Basic Instinct and Lyne’s own Fatal Attraction, obscure this fact. Even the fact of the movie’s same-day release in theaters and on Hulu feels appropriate. This wasn’t necessarily a bad omen, the reality of pandemic-era moviegoing being what it is. Never mind that the release of the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas thriller Deep Water - director Adrian Lyne’s first movie since Unfaithful 20 years ago - was repeatedly delayed. Maybe the erotic thriller isn’t dead after all, they said. Dead in the Water is currently the piece of television universe that uses the most f-bombs, with the word being used roughly six times during its runtime, primarily by Jason Riley.The return of a master of the genre, they said.No explanation is ever given for the source of the radiation encountered by Morgan Jones and Victor Strand.The four dead bodies found by Dwight and Sherry handcuffed to bunks are never explored.Although Dead in the Water explains much of what happened on board the sub, some things are still left unexplained.Many unnamed USS Pennsylvania crewmembers (Alive and Zombified).Ultimately several surviving crewmembers were able to raise the submarine to the surface, allowing for eight people, including Riley, McGuire, and Walter, to escape from the submarine with their lives. From there, things spiral out of control on the submarine as an outbreak quickly spreads, killing the majority of the crew within a day. Plot Īfter a crewmember suffering from appendicitis dies on board despite the medics' attempts to save him, he eventually turns and manages to bite several people. ![]() Shipmates turn one-by-one with no explanation, and the USS Pennsylvania becomes a nuclear-fueled and walker-filled death trap with no way out. Rewind to the eve of the apocalypse, where a conflicted officer and new father ( Nick Stahl) fights for survival just as the apocalypse hits.
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