47 Meters Down Uncaged

47 Meters Down Uncaged
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Ratings: 3/5

Duration: 1 Hour 29 Minutes

Director: Johannes Roberts

Genre:  Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller/ Drama/ Adventure

Release date: 16.08.2019 (India)

Star cast: Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Stallone, Davi Santos, Khylin, Rhambo, Brec Bassinger, John Corbett

Plot: 47 Meters Down Uncaged, has a plot that is quite relatable to its parent release, 47 Meters Down (2017). Here, the audience can see another team of sisters, joining their friends and heading for an impromptu diving session.

Mia (Sophie Nelisse) and Sasha (Corinne Foxx) are two reluctant stepsisters. Mia’s father Grant (John Corbett) is married to the mother of Sasha, Jennifer (Nia Long).  Grant has discovered an underwater dugout and is working at mapping everything out. Mia and Sasha are supposed to go for an exciting glass-bottom cruise tour. However, Sasha, with all her efforts in, convinces Mia on running off along with her school best friends Nicole (Sistine Rose Stallone) and Alexa (Brianne Tju), instead. As Alexa happens to be dating the assistant of Grant, she is well aware of the location of the cave and takes the excited girls there for a good swim. The four girls find the scuba diving gears and end up planning on going into the waters to explore the aquatic world. 

Now, this decision puts them into a deadly situation where they need to fight with the waters to save themselves from the hungry sharks. The young girls are awfully trapped and they have to come out of the water before their dwindling air tanks run out completely.

Review: The 2017 hit “47 Meters Down” was quite a beautifully directed, elegantly presented, and amazingly impactful thriller showcasing the struggle of two sisters, who are stuck inside a cage and are being petrified by sharks. That being said, its 2019 sequel “47 Meters Down: Uncaged” showcases nothing but an absolutely silly scenario, garbled action, and irritating characters. The second part is just a reprimand of the previous release.

47 Meters Down: Uncaged seems to be unfocused and meandering with confusing visuals and interchangeable characters. Writer and director Johannes Robert together with co-writer Ernest Riera have followed up their tight-gripping 2017 hit story with completely new scenario, location, and characters. However, while the initial film deftly introduced its two leading characters and kept them together in a single spot, the sequel comes with four different characters, who happen to be roving all around the cave. At any particular point of time, it is quite difficult to figure out who someone is and where someone is.

The four teenagers, dressed up in the scuba diving gears, shout each other’s name continually as if it would do any help in identifying who’s who. The continuously swinging flashlights coupled with the swishy undersea photography end up obscuring the entire space of action completely.

Overall, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged ends up rendering its attempted suspense completely inert. The sudden appearances, lame sub-plots do not really make much sense. The traditional cavern setup could have possibly been elegant and classy; however the sequel just serves the purpose of tainting the faded memory of the original release.