06-20-2024, 01:14 PM
This was getting some good buzz so I thought I'd give it a peep. I don't know why really. I'm not that into the shark genre unless Danny Trejo is in it and I generally disdain French film because it's so existentially pretentious.
The underlying message is that there's a lot of garbage in the sea and the Seine. Lots of scuba scenes in water filed with trash. It starts there, that huge trash cesspool in the sea. So there's an environmental undertow.
And I'm down with that. I've done a lot to contribute to WildAid through volunteering and with TCEC. When I first started, it was ACAP and Peter Benchley was the main celeb other than Jackie Chan. Even now, WildAid does a lot for sharks.
The sharks mutate. Maybe it's the garbage. They can breathe in fresh water. Females can reproduce without males. The bottom line is that they live in the submerged catacombs under Paris. And when they're discovered, it's just before a giant pre-Olympic Games triathlon in the Seine, which is also full of unexploded bombs from WWII.
That's the set up so you know exactly where this is going to go.
Lots of CGI sharks and chomping. Many die.
The ambiguous ending is pretentiously existential.
Not D00M recommended unless your a bachelor this weekend and can't watch Monkey Man or get your monkey canoe on...
Shadow boxing the apocalypse