Breaking Surface

I made an account just for this. This movie is insultingly stupid. Tuva makes all the intelligent choices after a diving accident but is undone by the utter stupidity of her own sister. If you treat it as a slapstick comedy it's fun to watch, but as a suspense thriller it's just insulting to its viewers. The writer didn't even check with a diver to make sure it's basic assumptions about diving were correct. It also contains all kinds of unnecessary complications, plot holes, convoluted story lines it is just a mess. Need more characters characters characters otherwise the review is too short..

My biggest take away from this film was the scenery and cinematography on the sisters drive to the dive site which was beautifully shot and made you wonder why they wanted to go diving in the dark rather than hiking.

I think the lack of any 'wonder' in the diving scenes did make what they were doing seem a little pointless and the younger sister, who we see taking one risk after another throughout the film, more unsympathetic.

It was very well shot and must have been a lot or work for the cast and crew to make. It had some tension but it would've been better if I'd cared a little more for the characters.

Shame for dogs in this movie too.

Going diving in the middle of winters in Norway, and in a secluded place, is not the best thing to do. Well, this is the very type of movie where the story is built to stress the viewer until the end and make them hold their breath, for that, the movie succeeds, stress free! But it stops there. Of course there are worse movies.

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.

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.