In very disturbed waters, the new big fish turbo-mongolerie has hit the world's theaters in the summer. While Jon Turteltaub makes room for Ben Wheatley to the realization, what's the good summer bossin worth? Answer to read below...
O captain, my captain!
Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) navigates between well-forced environmental activist actions and seabed explorations alongside his friend Jiuming Zhang (Jing Wu). Yet, their mission is quickly compromised when they face a double threat at more than 4000 metres of depth: a nice bench of Meg tickled by their hormones and a secret station with well-disturbed ambitions...
The In troubled waters, the property named In very disturbed waters (we look forward toIn very turbid waters !) changes yes man... director's pardon: Ben Wheatley succeeds Jon Turteltaub in the second part of this Sino-American entertainment... And we were entitled to hope for something from him! The British taciturne was indeed the eye behind the camera of In The Earth, an ecological horror film based on spores that had been a nice surprise of NIFFF 2022.
Any guts?
Unsurprisingly, he doesn't have much to inject into In very disturbed waters. The scenario seems to have sank from the beginning of the shooting on the high seas, the special effects are not always convincing and the soft rhythm of the knee does not help correct the shooting... The turbo Mongolerie even removes from its program any hemoglobin outpouring, designing to its spectator only a very lukewarm show and a moral in the image of Meiying's character, the jukebox of syrupy replicas of the film.
And the most frustrating thing is that we see where Wheatley wants to go... The filming of the abyss with these spectral red lights and sedimentary snow immediately creates an atmosphere conducive to the jump scares and a tripota of disgusting creatures standing on the side of the King Kong of the Peter Jackson (if he had the means). Without this, we are left with nothing or almost nothing, and the few horrific ideas (the head that explodes because of the pressure, Meg's bites, etc.) are constantly out of the way.
Abysses at the beach
And if the resolution of the movie on Fun Island slices, moving from dark abyss to a saturated tourist beach at the Piranha 3DThis is not to deliver us more sensations unfortunately. And this despite the presence of a giant squid, that is, if there was potential... In short, a film probably calibrated for the Chinese market, locked up in its PG-13, offering only a junk version of a Abyss Completely deflated!
I will discover it in VOSTFR on Saturday 16 September at the Paris Shark Week during the Meg Night! A huge official Warner night full of surprises with the broadcast of both « essential » Modern Sharksploitation...
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