But on its own B-movie terms 47 Meters Down works just fine, not wearing out its welcome thanks to its quick set-up, rapid pacing and brief running time.

| Dec 27, 2017

It's not a great film but, once the preliminary scenes on terra firma are over and we descend to a place we don't belong, it delivers an hour or so of sustained physical and psychological terror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

British director Johannes Roberts makes decent use of the murk (the film was largely shot in a tank in London) and the sisterhood theme gives the film a broader appeal than, say, The Shallows.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2017

A movie to be laughed at, not with, but there's pure popcorn pleasure to be found in its unapologetic schlock.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2017

After the success last year of The Shallows, here's another schlocky but brazenly entertaining thriller pitting American woman against homicidal shark in Mexico.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2017

A fiendishly effective holiday-gone-wrong thriller that's better at cranking up the agoraphobic action than fleshing out its characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2017

A silly but intensely terrifying addition to the wave of shark thrillers out there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2017

An unpretentious film whose destiny it is to toil in the shadow of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2017

47 Metres Down is competently enough made but suffers from a plot almost as rickety as the ancient cage in which the two sisters descend into the deep to view the sharks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2017

The script is a particular disaster area. "Emotional" beats between the sisters, dismally mistimed, prompt guffaws.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 20, 2017

This low budget but highly-effective horror film is exactly the kind of movie that legendary Hollywood D-movie producer Roger Corman would have knocked out in the '70s: plenty of writhing female limbs, no surprises.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2017

Even at 89 minutes, you can feel the oxygen running out of this movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 23, 2017

It's gratifying to see a summer popcorn movie where a simple idea goes a long way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2017

In many ways, 47 Meters Down completes a successful narrative dive, but in other ways it gets stuck in the shallows.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 22, 2017

47 Meters Down is a cheap summer thriller with a bite, B-movie fare that's heavy on empty calories but engrossing enough to consume as a one-time only guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 16, 2017

It's taut and suspenseful, and there's a jittery vibe to the whole thing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2017

The movie's saving grace is the visceral response that sharks produce, even more than four decades after Jaws first had audiences screaming.

| Jun 16, 2017

While the plot is a bit shaky in parts, the overall effect of creating needed tension and some outright, out-of-your-seat jumps of fright is quite effective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2017

The screenplay by Johannes Roberts and Ernest Riera is a weirdly clunky work that never seems to know what it's doing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2017

It more or less gets the job done (especially if you're handing out bonus points for a title that traffics in the metric system).

| Original Score: B- | Jun 15, 2017