47 Meters Down

47 Meters Down

Rating 7 out of 10

I did my first scuba dive MANY years ago.  Have been fortunate enough to do some fantastic dives around the world including an incredible shark dive in the Bahamas (twice) with reef sharks.  Doing a cage dive with Great White Sharks has always and still is on my bucket list.  Funny thing is for years my oldest son (also a scuba diver) has said he would never do the cage dive for fear the cage would break loose just like it did in this movie.

So opening night I grabbed the Hottie and headed toward the local Regal Theaters as it wasn't playing in our favorite NCG?  The movie starts off well and moves at a good pace until the crazy finale.  Two sisters, Lisa and Kate (Mandy Moore and Claire Holt) go on a Mexican vacation after a tough breakup for Lisa.  Kate is the adventurous one and after a night of drinking convinces Lisa that getting in a cage with 20+ foot Great Whites is a good idea.

The boat with Captain Taylor (Matthew Modine) is a rust bucket that anyone with common sense would not want to ride across the bay in much less play with huge man eating fish.  When it's time for the girls to go into the cage with several huge sharks swimming around everything is great until they start to wench them back in. The cage with two ladies free falls to the bottom of the ocean.  You guessed it 47 meters down (154 feet).   They have several problems on their list.  They have a limited amount of air and worse yet these huge hungry sharks between them and the boat.  Being that deep they can't drop everything and shoot to the top.  That would give them the bends and probably also kill them.

While this is a fairly low budget movie it gets the job done.  It relies on scaring you not grossing you out.  Not much gore for a movie like this. There were plenty of scenes that had the Hottie jumping in her seat.   Acting is mostly good.  I'm pretty sure this was filmed before Mandy Moore hit big with her tv show.  I was entertained even though I kept questioning why they used meters. I have never seen a scuba dive that went by meters instead of feet.  I guess naming the movie 154 feet didn't sound as good.