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That was an excellent one.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Dark Waters starts at the Gulf of Mexico, Oil Tansfer Station No. 3 where about 3,800 feet under the ocean two lowly workers Hank & Tim become Shark food... Marine biologist Dane Quatrell III (Lorenzo Lamas) & his female assistant Robin Turner (Simmone Mackinnon) are drugged by evil scientist Dr. Alistair Summerville (Bruce Gray) & taken to Dane's old marine life center which went bust, there Summerville says he needs to hire Dane's submarine the Resolve as this is just about the only privately owned sub that can withstand the depths needed for the mission. When Dane realises how much money he'll make the deal is done without too many questions being asked & along with Summerville's men they all set off for the oil rig. Once there though they are attacked by super strong, super smart Great White Sharks. Only three survive the attack & if killer Sharks wasn't enough it seems that the military has a sinister hand in these genetically created killers...Co-written, co-produced & directed by Phillip J. Roth Dark Waters is a pretty bad way to spend 90 odd minutes. The insultingly predictable script by Roth & Brett Orr is basically a Deep Blue Sea (1999) rip-off only with a much smaller budget, firstly it's boring, it doesn't contain any decent set-pieces & there's just no imagination to it at all, the Sharks hardly feature as instead the filmmakers thought we, the paying audience, would prefer to see a bunch of incompetent marines chase three civilians around a top secret submarine & totally screw up every opportunity to capture them as these marines just can't shoot straight & are pretty dumb, the character's are poor except for Dane himself who is quite likable as the hero although that Robin woman was absolutely appalling with her 'tough' no nonsense attitude that just didn't work at all & of course there are plenty of stupid plot holes & unbelievable coincidences. Oh dear, Jaws (1975) this ain't, not a good film.Director Roth does alright although it isn't going to win any awards for anything, the Sharks barely feature & probably get less than 10 minutes screen time which is just as well really as the so-called special effects are far from special. There's absolutely no blood or gore apart from some gunshot wounds & we never properly see anyone get eaten. The film lacks any sort of scares or tension & isn't exciting either.Technically Dark Waters is OK apart from the not-so special effects, the sets are alright although I don't think there would be that much room on a submarine, I mean some of those corridors looked wider than my bedroom! The opening scene is supposedly set underwater but you can tell that the two actors in deep-sea diving suits are just moving slowly in an empty set to try & simulate being in water! The acting isn't great & Mackinnon is absolutely terrible as Dane's sidekick, just because she's in it means Dark Water can't have more than 2 stars out of 10.Dark Waters might appeal to some although I think it's full of clichés, bad character's, dumb coincidences, bad CGI Sharks, not enough action, etc. etc. I could be here all night listing it's faults I really could, probably one to avoid.

I think, I have seen a lot of movies by now. But this one has to be one of worse if not the worst. The first scene of the movie shows the poor special effects that you'll see for the rest of the movie. Even though I am not native English speaker, I noticed how fake the acting was. I think I laughed for the first 20 minutes of the movie for that reason. I was thinking of it, as a parody of horror movies, but it is classified as a horror/action movie. The subject of the movie could be exploited much better. Unluckily, they were mostly worried to make the two main actors look like the hottest couple on earth. Well, the actress is indeed hot, and I don't doubt for many ladies the guy might be hot too. However, that's not what a movie is made of. The plot underestimates the audience, the end of the movie is highly predictable (almost from the beginning). The danger does not seem to scare the fearless heroes, even though this kind of heroes passed to history since Steven Seagal and Harrison Ford in the early 90's.In conclusion, do not expect anything from this movie. It is just disappointing. If you want to see the "hot" actors that will be all the reward you will have for your money.

I find it difficult to write a review on such an uninspired, unoriginal, unmotivated film. Neither sci-fi, action, horror, comedy, nor anything in between for that fact, it runs through the direct-to-video paces as comfortably as it needs to in order to still be watchable without ever being any good.Lorenzo Llamas is an oceanic researcher hard up for some funding. Together with his assistant they seduce money out of socialites at (and after) fund raisers. One night the two are drugged and taken to the estate of a man whom might have a job for them. They are to escort him to an underwater researcher station to find out why communications have been lost. Things take a turn for the dangerous when they are set upon by a school of intelligent great white sharks.The script is bored with plot holes like swiss-cheese. Not to mention script irregularities. Nothing ever seems to flow logically and every event seems to happen at random without regard for plot evolution.That should be expected from a DtV flick, but the genre hopping comes strait out of left field. It starts out a horror film, becomes a sci-fi, shifts to action, takes a turn for the comedic, goes back to horror, then kind of tosses them all in together for the conclusion. More than once I asked "what kind of movie are they trying to make?"All is not terrible though, thus the average rating. For one the sets and FX are well above par for a low budget cheese fest like this and the actors (while never given a single intelligent thing to do) are lively and energetic; it seems like they at least had fun making the movie.One could do much better than this, and one could do much worse; it really isn't for anybody as it fails to either excite or irritate.5/10

Really a pathetic attempt of any kind of movie. Of course when I see DEJ productions, i know it is going to be bad, but i have a soft spot for this. Lorenzo does ok, and Simmone Mackinnon is just really nice to look at. The rest is just sad and don't anyone waste their time. I keep hoping one of these days i will see something that is really good! They even had the guy who fought Morpheus on top of the moving Semi-truck star in his movie! I think that is the best i have seen from them. I think it was called "Global Effect" or something like that. Even that would be lucky to get a 4! I kept waiting for a story! Oh i guess it was there I just must have missed it. I will continue to rent these because believe it or not i do like corny movies, (just not this bad!) We will see what might happen in the future, but who really knows?