Also there are two other couples, plus a wizened old sailor and his dog. Virginie and Jake stock up on supplies and sail out to find that the remote island paradise is real. Another vagabond tells them about Amarante, an island so perfect it’s truly paradise. They’ve scraped and saved to buy a boat, The Wayfarer, and have made it all the way to Malaysia. Virginie and her husband, Jake, have dreamed of going off grid. I love thrillers set in wild, remote places so I was super excited for this one.
So I know based on Hollywood movies ( The Island), other novels (like The Reckless Girls) and at least two Datelines that if you say goodbye to your 9-5 and find yourself sailing to a remote tropical paradise inhabited by only a few other people, murder is going to happen. Moreover, attempts to build symbolism around Vic's collection of live snails (?) and his daughter's love of "Old McDonald Had a Farm" simply hit a wall, and Deep Water starts to feel shallower and shallower as it heads toward its gloomy, pathetic conclusion.The dog is okay, although it’s kind of vaguely addressed. This is marked by Affleck's magical movie beard, which remains exactly the same length in every scene. There's no sense of time passing between events or of anything building everything seems reset at the beginning of every sequence. Not to mention that, no matter how broken up Melinda may seem over the loss of her most recent conquest, she immediately starts pursuing a new one. But things quickly fall apart as we realize that this couple seems to do nothing except go to parties every night with the same people. It begins well, setting up a simmering tension between Affleck and de Armas, both of whom seem committed to their roles Affleck is chillingly stoic, while de Armas is recklessly sensual. Adrian Lyne, the octogenarian director of Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, and Unfaithful, returns after a 20-year gap with Deep Water.
A cheesy erotic thriller from a veteran of the genre, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, may sound like movie gold, but the end result is eye-rollingly ridiculous.
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