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The sequel features scared step-sisters Sasha (Corrine Fox) and Mia (Sophie Neilisse), plus adrenaline-junkie besties Nicole (Sistine Rose Stallone) and Alexa (Brianne Tju), heading out to explore a flooded Mayan city. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged promises more of the same thrills, but with underwater claustrophobia replacing the agoraphobic terror of the open sea. But the scary spirit of the first, with young women fighting for their lives against rapidly lowering oxygen levels and super predators surrounding them, is doubly present. There's no direct plot connection between the first and second film, save that the sharks are the same species and back in action. 16, aims to amplify the original at every turn, featuring double the sisterly strife and amping up the shark action. With a sequel coming out soon that's set in an entirely different country and with neither of the original stars returning, how does 47 Meters Down: Uncaged connect to the original? The new film, out Aug. For those who want to go and enjoy a cheesy, often profoundly idiotic shark movie, 47 Meters Down may be just the film for them, but even then its rewards are kept minimal by the film’s self-serious attitude and limited number of actual shark-related scares.The summer of 2017 saw the sisters-in-shark-peril film 47 Meters Down, starring Mandy Moore and Claire Holt, churn box office waters to become the indie success of the summer. To its credit, 47 Meters Down does have some small, fleeting moments of genuine horror and shock throughout, but they’re too few and far between to really have any lasting effect. The film tries to turn their relationship into the heart and focus of the film, but all it ever achieves are echoes of real emotion. The sisterly bond between the two is hard to root for most of the time because of how selfishly both Kate and Lisa treat each other. Neither actress is ever really allowed to go anywhere compelling, and their conversations are so unoriginal that they almost feel copied and pasted from other movies. Stars Mandy Moore and Claire Holt do what they can with the cheesy, cliched material they’re given but to often dismal results.

Indeed, the actual appearances of the teethy CGI creations are minimal at best, and it’s hard not to feel like director Johannes Roberts just simply missed the mark more frequently than he hit it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t, mostly because of how often Lisa and Kate venture dozens of meters away from the cage without ever once even seeing a shark.

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While the premise itself requires a suspension of disbelief far wilder than any shark movie should be allowed, once Lisa and Kate are trapped in their cage, 47 Meters Down has a chance to become a legitimately tense and scary shark attack thriller. Predictably then, the cage’s tether to the boat eventually snaps and Kate and Lisa are left stranded 47 meters below the surface at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by sharks, with little-to-no communication lines and even less ways to defend themselves. Of course, Kate and Lisa are not those kind of characters and get in with very little resistance to any of the operation’s many sketchy details. So the girls embark on a trip into the middle of the ocean, on a boat captained by Matthew Modine’s Taylor, and get into a cage that’s rusted so red (it looks like Mater from the Cars franchise) that anyone with some semblance of common sense would avoid getting into it at any cost. Does this sound like a very selfish thing for someone to do to their sister, just so that they can go swimming with sharks? Well, it is, but it’s just one of many truly ridiculous bits of character motivation that drive the plot of 47 Meters Down. So when the girls hear about a chance to go diving with great white sharks, Kate convinces Lisa it’s the perfect opportunity to prove her ex wrong by posting photos of the sharks swimming around them on social media. The film follows Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt), two sisters on vacation in South America together, after Lisa’s husband left her for being too boring. The sudden ominous music cue that accompanies it only further reinforces the fact that while 47 Meters Down may be many things, it will not be subtle, and it will most certainly not be a showcase of technical or visual prowess either. Fortunately, the film lets you know what it is before the opening credits are even done rolling when a character spills her glass of red wine into a hotel pool, and the camera does a zoom into the red liquid spreading throughout the blue water like, you know, blood would after a shark bite. I say all of this because it’s important to know what you’re getting into, and what you want from 47 Meters Down when you go to see it.

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