47 Meters Down Movie Review

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47 Meters Down is a 2017 horror movie directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Claire Holt and Mandy Moore.

Lisa(Moore) and her sister, Kate(Holt) are on holiday in Mexico. They meet two guys, who suggest going cage diving in the ocean. Lisa isn't sure about it but Kate persuades her. They lie about being able to scuba dive. They are getting a boat out there and the captain is called Taylor(Matthew Modine) and he has a worker with him called Javier(Chris Johnson). The two guys go down into the water first. There are sharks in the water. Lisa and Kate go down into the ocean in the cage. They can keep in contact with Taylor through a microphone in the scuba mask. The cage sinks to the bottom of the ocean and Kate panics. She tries to get out but she can't. They tell Taylor what has happened and he tells her that Javier will come down to them with a spare cable to help them come back up.

Taylor tells them to stay in the cage. The shark comes over to them. The girls are running out of air when they see a light in the ocean. They think that it is Javier. They bang a rock on the cage so he will hear them. The light doesn't move. Lisa says that she will go and find Javier. The shark comes after her. She hides under a rock. She swims over to the light. It's just a flashlight. Javier isn't there. Javier appears, but he gets eaten by a great white. Lisa gets lost. She grabs the cable from Javier and she manages to find the cage. Lisa swims to the surface to tell Taylor they need help. He warns her to get back into the cage. She does so and he tries to winch them back up.

The cable breaks and the cage falls down again. Lisa is trapped under it. Taylor says that he will send down extra air for them. He tells them that he has notified the coast guard. They get the extra oxygen and some flares from Taylor. The shark is above them. Kate gets attacked. Kate and Lisa are out of the cage to get the supplies and they are separated. Lisa hears her sister. Lisa gets her leg out from under the cage and goes to find her sister. She finds her and they use a flare to ward off the shark. They communicate with Taylor and he tells them to try and come slowly up to the surface. They are surrounded by sharks. Their flares go out.

Lisa and Kate have to try and swim for it. They get to the surface. Taylor throws them a line. The shark nips Lisa. Lisa and Kate are pulled aboard the ship. We then realise that Lisa is hallucinating. She is still stuck under the cage. The coast guard comes to help her. She looks for Kate and then she realises that her sister has been killed by the shark. I liked this film. It  isn't very original really but I always enjoy these shark vs. man movies. It is what you would expect but there are some good moments and I found it entertaining. I recommend it if you enjoy shark films, as I do. I will give it 5/10.