The Dive

Name: The Dive
Genre: Thriller
Released: August 25, 2023
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Louisa Krause, Sophie Lowe

2023

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RLJE Films | Release Date: August 25, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Louisa Krause, Sophie Lowe

Summary: Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and cold temperatures, it is up to her sister to fight for her life.

Director: Maximilian Erlenwein

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Dennis Harvey

Aug 23, 2023

If The Dive’s final stretch feels a bit less urgent than what precedes it, one appreciates that the filmmakers did not pile on the usual melodramatic gotchas, hewing to a relatively realistic course of events. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Aug 22, 2023

What follows is a race against the clock, cleverly constructed by director Maximilian Erlenwein and co-writer Joachim Hedén. Their script throws in plenty of calamities to nobble the diver’s escape, but didn’t quite manage – for me at least – to spark a vertiginous clammy terror. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Aug 23, 2023

The film itself has a commendable logic and credibility, but perhaps lacks a little of the pulse-racing intensity that might have made it a more obviously commercial proposition. Read full review

Empire Jake Cunningham

Aug 24, 2023

The Dive uses its underwater setting to add new thrills to a formulaic survivalist story, even if its attempts at emotional depth end up feeling a little shallow. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Aug 25, 2023

The Dive feels routine, a soggy journey from point A to point B that doesn’t do anything interesting enough to make it stand out in the dog days of summer. Read full review

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Jennif2er

Sep 8, 2023

Its kinda boring, over 1 hour and 30 min, it has some good visuals and you feel the claustrophobia, but that's about it

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Rebecca31

Aug 31, 2023

127 Hours under the sea or 47 Meters Down without the sharks. The Dive takes a scary idea of being trapped under a rock but only this time it’s underwater. When sisters May (Louisa Krause) and Drew (Sophie Lowe) go scuba diving at a beautiful and extremely secluded location things go127 Hours under the sea or 47 Meters Down without the sharks. The Dive takes a scary idea of being trapped under a rock but only this time it’s underwater. When sisters May (Louisa Krause) and Drew (Sophie Lowe) go scuba diving at a beautiful and extremely secluded location things go horrendously wrong when one gets trapped 28 meters below. With oxygen levels dropping to dangerously low levels by the minute it’s up to her sister to save her before it’s too late. And that’s why we don’t go scuba diving in a completely secluded area no matter how picturesque it is.

“The calmer you are the less air you use,” well The Dive is anything but calm and it’s not recommended for anyone about to go scuba diving. Watching the events unfold in such a desperate situation forces you to question how you’d survive such a terrifying ordeal, not me though I’d well be dead. In fact I’d never end up in this situation in the first place, though that doesn’t diminish how terrifying a position like this would be. But to call The Dive a horror movie is a bit of a stretch, but whoever organises the Odeon Scream Unseen chose it anyway.

You know exactly where this movie is going and all you’re doing is waiting for the incident to happen that gets one of the sisters trapped at the bottom of the ocean. Unfortunately the attempts to build an emotional connection doesn’t really work. The two leads don’t have great chemistry together, along with an average script it doesn’t keep a level of suspense and tension that the trailer made it seem. Because of this it drags in places and although it’s got some good moments it’s nothing special. Thankfully it doesn’t drift too far into the unbelievable but overall it’s not memorable and doesn’t do anything new to the survival movie genre. It’s also a remake of the Swedish film Tödliche Tiefen (Breaking Surface) which I’d guess had more suspense and atmosphere than The Dive, which makes you wonder why this remake exists at all. Still though, it was a lot better than the Meg 2.

Recommended for those who enjoy these kinds of survival movies. It’s worth a watch once, but that’s about it. For anyone looking for some real scares, there are actual horror movies in the cinema right now you could see instead.… Expand

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eva3si0n

Sep 3, 2023

The Dive is a chamber German thriller. 1.5 hours, only 2 heroes and a terribly boring plot. The Dive is a unique thriller, you can literally fall asleep when watching it. It seems that the heroines have 20 minutes for everything, but there is no suspense in the film completely. The mainThe Dive is a chamber German thriller. 1.5 hours, only 2 heroes and a terribly boring plot. The Dive is a unique thriller, you can literally fall asleep when watching it. It seems that the heroines have 20 minutes for everything, but there is no suspense in the film completely. The main characters are sisters, is there any emotional connection between them in the script? No. Is there any tension in the movie? No. I hoped for a European approach to shooting chamber films. But I got only a complete disappointment. Movies about underwater travel have recently been as trivial as possible, and The Dive only confirms this. If you don't want a good movie about divers, you'd better watch Sanctum or the classic The Abyss.… Expand

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