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Truth
is, this isn’t as bad as the studio misleads you to believe.
Thankfully, Roadshow have stuck to their smarts – they picked it up for
a start, and that’s saying something – and released it under its
original title.
So why was it called Open Water 2
in some territories? Easy, it’s near the same storyline. Bunch of folks
get lost at sea, and one-by-one fall prey to the deep dark waters. And
like the 2004 indy hit, Adrift
is based on a terrifying true story of overboarders of the
subterranean. In this case, a bunch of old friends (including new
mother Susan May Pratt, and studly smart-ass Eric Dane – aka ‘McSteamy’
on Grey’s Anatomy)
go on a sailing trip together. Everyone ends up in the water – one
against her will – and when it’s realised that nobody put the ladder
down to get back up to the yacht, that’s where they’ll stay.
German
commercial director Hans Horn won’t escape the comparisons with the
earlier similar film – hence the title change for the states – but he
will ultimately escape the assumption that his pic is rubbish. In
short, it’s not; in fact, it’s a terrific little thriller.
You’ll
be truly on the edge of your seat for a lot of the film, and its credit
to the filmmaker’s precise direction and a tight and effective script
from Adam Kreutner. Sure, some of the dialogue is a bit hokey at times,
but the stuff the matters – the stuff at sea – is so close to gold, the
bronze is near worn.
It’s not so much power-packed scares or
effective jumps that suck you in here, but more so just the storyline
at play: the terrifying predicament of being lost in the ocean, unable
to climb back on your boat.
The closest you’ll want to get to water after watching this is the trickle from a dripping tap.
EXTRAS
Extras include trailers of other Roadshow titles.
Conclusion:
Movie 70% Extras: 40%
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