悪魔の口
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"悪魔の口"と呼ばれるタイの水中洞窟。５人の仲間たちは、社会へ踏み出す前の最後の冒険として、その奥深くへと挑む。だが彼らはすぐ気づく。水の底に、自分たちを獲物として狙う"何か"がいることを。それは素早く、音も立てず、死をもたらす。息苦しい闇の中で、仲間への信頼は崩れ去り、パニックが広がっていく。ひとつでも道を誤れば死闘が待ち受けるのだ。
"悪魔の口"と呼ばれるタイの水中洞窟。５人の仲間たちは、社会へ踏み出す前の最後の冒険として、その奥深くへと挑む。だが彼らはすぐ気づく。水の底に、自分たちを獲物として狙う"何か"がいることを。それは素早く、音も立てず、死をもたらす。息苦しい闇の中で、仲間への信頼は崩れ去り、パニックが広がっていく。ひとつでも道を誤れば死闘が待ち受けるのだ。
監督: Jeff Wadlow
脚本: Aja Gabel / Myung Joh Wesner / Jeff Wadlow
音楽: Bear McCreary
制作: Basil Iwanyk / Erica Lee / Carsten H.W. Lorenz
撮影監督: James Kniest
制作会社: Amazon MGM Studios / Thunder Road / Lionsgate
It's quite clever to put a shark movie in a dark cave. It does save a lot on the effect budget when you don't have to show the main antagonist with any degree of clarity. The characters are fun enough, even though they aren't very engaging, and they all get picked off one by one by a very angry fish just doing fish things. What I did like about this is that the fish isn't actually malicious or supernatural or vindictive, it just does fish things and that's pretty cool. For a cave movie this doesn't rate very high and as a shark movie, it doesn't rate much higher. It isn't a bad movie, but it isn't really all that special.
More of a Public Service Announcement or maybe an After School Special than this is a real movie review. I'm not going to say "Don't Watch This Movie' because, if you picked up a watery, Teen-Chop-A-Thon like this then I think you'll probably be perfectly satisfied with watching this flick. I'm writing this 'advisory' because I wish someone had done the same kindness for me. It would have saved me the sour taste this left in my mouth. You see, the first half of The Devil's Mouth is above average when it comes to this kinda movie. That's what made the second half hurt so much. If the first half hadn't spent the time developing real characters with some depth, characters that were actually interesting, then the disappointment of the second half wouldn't have been so.....well, sourly disappointing. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad movie. It starts with some teens who can keep your attention with their shrieking & screaming & fleeing in terror. That's why we watch these movies, right? But the second half pulls the ol' bait n' switch on us. SPOILER WARNING! It shifts from a bunch of victims desperately fleeing, trying to escape & stay alive, it changes into a 'let's fight that shark!'.....why? Look, if you've ever been trapped in a cave system with a vexed bull shark, & which of us hasn't? then you know the choice to go fistacuffs with an apex predator on it's home turf is just a dumb idea. Wow is it dumb. Anyhoo, enjoy the first half but know what's coming. I honestly believe that this warning will improve your viewing experience as you won't feel duped like I did. I genuinely hope this helps you. If it did, please let me know.
