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47 Meters Down: Uncaged Review

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Horror Movie Talk: Horror Movie Review

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.4640 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This week we are reviewing 47 Meters Down: Uncaged. This film took a great premise and solid jump scares, but still bored me for half of the film. It definitely delivers on crunchy shark action, but if you want more than on-the-nose expositional dialogue and tissue paper thin character, maybe just rewatch Jaws. https://youtu.be/AvXjx8SZbv8 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Trailer 47 Meters Down: Uncaged can be found in theaters now. The full movie! 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Synopsis 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is the sequel to the 2017 film, 47 Meters Down. It is by the same director, Johannes Roberts, but an all new cast of disposable teens. The film is about four American teen girls in Mexico that go scuba diving into a secret submerged Mayan City inside underwater caves. The Mayan caves hold more than just the Mayan version of the terracotta warriors, it also contains deadly albino Great White Sharks! The sharks are blind, but that presents no problem for them, since their other senses are heightened, and these basic bitches keep screaming and clamoring about. With their air supply dwindling in the claustrophobic space, the girls and others get picked off one by one by the insatiable eating machines as they try to make their way out. Watch 47 Meters Down: Uncaged47 Meters Down: Uncaged Full MovieStream On Amazon Review of 47 Meters Down: Uncaged This movie has a lot going for it. It has a great premise, plenty of quality jump scares, and delivers on the promise of brutal shark attacks. For me though, all of this is undercut by a boring, paint-by-numbers, super on-the-nose script. Much like The Meg, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged has a script that is obviously simplified so that it is easier to translate for international audiences. What the script doesn’t contain is a character that I care about, or any interesting dialogue. The strength of the film is the design of the sharks and the shark attack sequences. The action sequences are visceral and come fast and sudden. Also, Quenton Tarantino would probably be a big fan of this movie since about 1/5 of it is devoted to close ups of women's feet kicking towards the camera. In the end, I was cheering for the sharks to kill everyone, because at least that ending would make it interesting. This isn’t a movie that I would recommend running to the theater for, but if you want to see a movie about sharks eating people, then you will definitely enjoy this. While I did enjoy some moments in this film, I was checking my watch any time that someone wasn’t getting eaten by a shark. It’s not terrible, but it’s also not very good. Score for 47 Meters Down: Uncaged 4/10 If you like horror movies based in Mexico, check out our review of The Ruins: https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2019/05/08/the-ruins-movie-review/ Spoilers for 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Expand for Spoilers One of the features of this film is the weird soundtrack. It's an amalgamation of 80's pop music juxtaposed with an atmospheric electronic score. Which would be fine, but when you see a young black man absolutely rocking to an INXS song, it tends to distract. The Opening The opening of the film features the main character, Mia, played by Sophie Nélisse, being pushed into a pool by some stereotypical mean girls. The setting is in Mexico on the Yucatan peninsula, but there is nary a Mexican to be seen, nor Spanish to be uttered. This is one of the many things in the movie that never get explained. Check Out Our Review of Tusk https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2019/09/18/tusk-review/ We find out that Mia's Sister Sasha, played by Corrine Foxx, isn't a big fan of Mia, because reasons. Their dad is an underwater archaeologist(?) that just made a new discovery. He can’t spend time with Mia because he needs to set up the new site, so he gets them tickets to a glass bottom boat ride to see sharks feed. A Fateful Decision

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Hello and welcome to Horror Movie Talk, an opinionated and accidentally funny horror movie review show.

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Your panel of expert hosts each week are Dr. Bryce Hansen, who holds a Ph.D. in

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Spookology and Professor David Day, the foremost expert on Scare No-Nos.

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New theatrical releases always get priority, but we also review older horror movies, both good

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and horrible.

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I'm Bryce Hanson.

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And I'm David Day.

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Thank you for joining us for this episode of horror movie talk.

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We're going to be talking about 47 meters down on caves.

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I got to tell you, man, I'm pretty excited for this episode for a couple of different reasons.

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Some of the stuff we have ready for you guys and this movie, all of it is culminating into a very nice...

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I don't know.

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What do you call something that smells nice?

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I guess that's an aroma, but this is more of a bouquet of awesomeness.

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