47 Meters Down
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: June 16, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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7
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13
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsAriel ScottiJun 15, 2017
What unfolds is a smart, tense nail-biter that’s bound to leave some clinging to the shoreline this summer. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerJun 16, 2017
While the plot is a bit shaky in parts, the overall effect of creating needed tension and some outright, out-of-your-seat jumps of fright is quite effective. Read full review
75
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 15, 2017
It’s lean and mean, focused and direct, and the jolts are both effective and well earned Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJun 15, 2017
This flick is a summer diversion, pure and simple, so don’t expect a deep message. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 16, 2017
The ingeniously simple scenario concocted by director Roberts and his co-screenwriter Ernest Riera (they previously collaborated on the horror film The Other Side of the Door) provides the opportunity for genuine tension abetted by a series of jump scares that are no less effective for being predictable. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe LeydonJun 15, 2017
Director Johannes Roberts’ mostly underwater thriller is a compact and sturdily crafted B-movie that generates enough scares and suspense to qualify as — well, maybe not a pleasant surprise, but a reasonably entertaining one. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 15, 2017
As far as cheap warm-weather junk food goes, it will suffice. It will have to. Read full review
60
CineVueChristopher MachellAug 3, 2017
Overall the film's trashy pleasures just about keep it afloat. Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinJul 31, 2017
A fiendishly effective holiday-gone-wrong thriller that's better at cranking up the agoraphobic action than fleshing out its characters. Still, it'll find few fans at the Mexican Tourist Board... Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom SeymourJul 25, 2017
In its atmospheric soundscape, cinematography, taut characterisation and storytelling, this is a very involving genre thriller. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJun 16, 2017
47 Meters Down doesn't have the campy sparkle that made “The Shallows” a cult hit, but it's the kind of cheesy thriller that's good for a few jumps and a few chuckles at its own silliness. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJun 15, 2017
47 Meters Down navigates choppy waters, but ultimately manages to deliver some prime summer-time screams. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJun 15, 2017
47 Meters Down never remotely approaches greatness, but for an hour or so, its unfussy, workmanlike portrait of ordinary people in crisis (plus killer sharks) gets the job done. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJun 21, 2017
It’s actually a pretty concise little premise as shark movies go, with almost all of the story happening underwater and a plot that has little on its mind other than survival. Still, a little bit of characterization would have been a nice addition. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiJun 16, 2017
47 Meters Down, despite a few things going for it, is an easily skippable work that will, ironically, probably wind up playing better on television and home video, where viewers might be more willing to overlook its failings Read full review
50
IndieWireMichael NordineJun 15, 2017
47 Meters Down sinks rather than swims, even if there are a few buoyant moments along the way. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJun 15, 2017
In the lulls between bouts of yammering, however, the director, Johannes Roberts, concentrates on building a solid atmosphere of desperation. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoJun 14, 2017
Not that the movie’s various shortcomings are all on Moore. British genre director and co-writer Johannes Roberts (“Storage 24”) gives her nothing but trite drama to work with in setting up the story, and an overload of distracting, reductive prattle once she hits the water. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 13, 2017
Silly as it sounds, 47 Meters Down is downright intense. And it manages the odd surprise twist, too. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 3, 2017
It’s not the premise that’s the problem. It’s everything else. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJun 11, 2017
Like Lisa and Kate’s pendular swings between hope and despair, Johannes Roberts’s film can’t help alternating between the genuinely terrifying and the just plain dumb. Read full review
35
IGNAlex WelchJun 16, 2017
There are a few occasionally effective scares along the way, but the cliched characters and downright idiotic motivations make 47 Meters Below sink before it even has the chance to swim. Read full review
33
The PlaylistKimber MyersJun 15, 2017
Though 47 Meters Down perfunctorily succeeds in its aims to terrify the audience, it’s not as much fun as it could be due to it’s beyond brainless script, its casual sexism and its idiot characters. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Dave McGinnJun 22, 2017
There are some tense moments, and Moore and Holt’s performances are about as good as could be hoped for considering they are behind scuba masks most of the time. But even at 89 minutes, you can feel the oxygen running out of this movie. Read full review
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