I was lured in to watch "From the Depths" given the movie's cover/poster, which displayed a great white shark with its mouth wide open heading towards a woman in the water. So needless to say that I was expecting this to be a movie in the likes of, say I don't know, "Jaws" or "The Meg" perhaps.
However, what I ended up sitting down to watch was a drama about a woman whom had apparently been attacked by a shark a year ago and was now having trouble sleeping, as vivid dreams of a shark attacking her had her trembling with fear. And she was seeing the shark wherever she went, even out of water.
Yeah, this was a movie about a woman and her psychological issues coping with being the sole survivor of a shark attack and having problems adapting to her life situation and a potential new love interest. Except, there was a twist... And I will not spoil that, as you have to wait to the very end of the movie to see that for yourself. Believe you me, you'll be as dumbfounded as I was and just shaking your head in disbelief.
The movie was not a great movie in terms of entertainment or enjoyability. It was watchable, sure, but it was a movie that actually could just as easily be skipped entirely and your life wouldn't be any less complete without it.
The acting in the movie was adequate, when taking into consideration the severe limitations imposed by a poor script and storyline, and having fairly rigid characters to work with.
The CGI used in the movie was just laughably bad; it looked like something from a 1990s computer game. It was just unfathomable that something that horrible could pass in 2020.
Now, I can't claim to be familiar with the work of writer and director Jose Montesinos prior to this movie. But this particular 2020 movie wasn't a grand achievement.
If you enjoy shark movies, do yourself a favor and skip this movie, because it is not, and I repeat, it is not a shark movie.
My rating of "From the Depths" is a generous three out of ten stars.
