Breaking Surface

All really good films have a good start sequence like films like Cliffhanger or Vertical Limit and this film is no exception with a heart stopping sequence beneath a ship being sucked into its propellers which immediately grabs the viewers attention - well done to the director for paying attention to the rules of good movie making.

Add to that some utterly breathtaking photography and drone footage and it starts looking very good indeed.

Good acting and nice characterization, one character is focused, extremely intelligent and capable then we have the other one who obviously has problems , ruined her marriage and is a bit of nightmare and of course its the intelligent and capable one who becomes trapped and so the incompetent partner is the one who has to try everything (and mostly failing) to free her sister and save the day - it has all the things a good movie should have right from the off and it does not disappoint! As one reviewer has pointed out it is actually quite close to reality when you are diving so they clearly researched before they made the movie and having seen someone with a case of the spinal bends its quite disturbing and a completely horrifying experience even for people watching it happen to someone else as i did once so this film did bring back memories!

You have to laugh at the one star reviewers complaining about the dog scene or this and that would not happen in real life and the sister was stupid - Err yes that is why she was chosen to be the one not trapped under the rock as she was the incompetent dimwit of the two sisters - what didnt you get? When are people like this going to stop reviewing movies? If everyone did the logical and sensible thing then the movie would last 10 minutes and be over immediately - its what is called making a fictional movie guys - perhaps stick to dominoes if you cannot review a movie properly or dont understand the construction of a screenplay! It really does disappoint me to see low brow reviewers giving a good film like this a 1 or 2 star review which means its the worst film you have ever seen and which this is plainly not if you have ever seen the Bad Batch with Keanu Reeves - Go watch that and then tell me you still think this is a 1 or 2!

The only disappointment is that they went for the usual hollywood happy ending when they should have ended it with what would really have happened if someone had made so many ascents and descents without the safety breaks they should take to remove nitrogen from the blood then it would really have broken movie making rules and we need this to make movies that truly shine. Overall a good exciting 7/10 nights entertainment.

The cinematography is great. The many frustrating issues arise from the many situations that befall the duo, and the emergency decisions they must make. One poor decision after another. It is definitely worth a watch.

Initially bad decisions lead eventually to bad solutions - as the theme of any script based on creating suspense works as it is. To further on claim it pictures reality on any level among experienced professional divers is hogwash and is quite telling about the asserted "skill" and "knowledge" in the field of the writer comparing this to an actual possible scenario. Any diver - professional or amateur - shouldn't be diving at all if this is their conception of events that even could occur during any dive if thoroughly planned and implemented properly. Rather consider this as but a movie.

Survival film from Sweden. Two sisters who are reunited after a long time, go together for diving like they used to when they were kids. Only while they're at the bottom of the sea, rocks fall and the younger sister gets trapped on the bottom. The older one doesn't have her sister's experience but with her guidance she tries to do everything to save her. Constant challenges and setbacks and constant effort against time as oxygen runs out. Will they both make it out of the frozen seabed alive? A pretty good and serious overall survival film from Scandinavia, with snowy landscapes and cold seabed, quite realistic and with very good acting, suspense throughout the film and combined with its short duration does not become boring at all. Pretty good effort from the north. Recommended.

As some have reviewed it before me, the movie certainly has good elements:

• the environment is beautiful !
• the shots under & above water are really good
• acting is good

But personally for me, some elements were irritating as hell:

• the main actress plays a pretty stupid person (some could argue she's maybe inexperienced as a diver and does silly things and/ or attribute her reactions to panic). But still, it's ok to be stupid in a film - but if it starts to be irritating... it's too much
• I'm a diver and wow some pretty amazing stuff happening under water. Maybe for the non-educated viewer it looks ok, but as a diver ... it's not realistic. The amount of dives/ quick surfacing/ recompressing she's doing... don't think she'd still be walking. Freediving to 33m (in a drysuit), looking for the bottle on the bottom on one breath, ... a lot of those things are not realistic

A pity ! I think with some small finetunings this could have been a very good movie.