Escape from the Deep - Bis zum letzten Atemzug

A group of college friends reunite for a Caribbean scuba diving adventure, exploring a sunken WWII battleship. However, they become trapped in the rusted underwater maze, with great white sharks at every turn.

Joachim Heden delivers a watchable shark tale, but don't expect the likes of The Shallows, 47 Meters Down, The Reef, Open Water, or even Shark Bait, to name a few.

Andrew Prendergast and Nick Saltrese's script is talky for the first half hour, with the usual setup tropes: friends having a good time, water-shark-kill. It's drawn out, but Heden offers some tense moments in the third act, where the digital sharks look on form. The CGI is a mixed bag, at times very convincing. While not as well executed, the underwater settings are at times reminiscent of Mako (2021) and Deep Fear (2023).

There's a lot of reflection with the characters, and the melancholiness matches the odd whimsical soundtrack. Actress Kim Spearman is notable and does a great job with what she's given. Jack Parr has screen presence and is likable and memorable. The film is dedicated to the late Julian Sands, and it's a pity this is one of his posthumous films. Still, in his brief role, he acts the chops off it.

Overall, it's better than The Requin (2022) and countless other low-budget shark films out there.

In the British Virgin Islands, Noah (Jack Parr) and Levi (Julian Sands) discover the wreck of USS Charlotte which sank during WWII. The wreck is pristine after being buried all those years. Noah's college friends, Sam (Kim Spearman), Brett (Alexander Arnold), Riley (Erin Mullen), and Logan (Arlo Carter), have come for a reunion. Arrogant Brett insists on diving the unexplored wreck despite cash-strapped Noah's warning.

This is an average B-movie for the first half, maybe even the first two thirds. It's nothing special. The dive suits restrict the performances. There is the standard annoying character and people being stupid. Then the movie starts piling on some bad writing. When they go back to the surface, the sharks look worst and worst. Finally, there are a couple of really stupid shark scenes. It tries for awhile but it can't escape its bad shark movie genes.

It's a solid shark movie. The actors were good and the sharks look real. I don't get the low ratings, considering you go into this movie knowing what you're watching. My only critique would be that they say in the movie "there's never been any sharks in these waters." Dude, it's the Caribbean!!! Florida is the shark attack capital of the world....and it's part of the Caribbean. I live in South Florida and shark attacks are in the news all the time. I have actually almost been attacked by a shark on two occasions while in the Bahamas. One of which I caught on video. Sharks are literally everywhere in those waters, and everyone knows it. But overall, nice shark movie. And the boat captain is from Arachnophobia. I only remember that cause that movie scarred me for life as a kid. Look that one up if you want to be terrified.

I honestly don't understand the low rating for this movie, of course it will not win any oscars but the movie does not deserve a 4.6 rating.

There is no bad CG in this movie, the shark is really well made and does not look fake like what one hundred percent asylum movies do.

Not sure what the budget for this movie was but its very well made. Of course most of the actors are unknown but they do a great job.

You get the spoiled rich kid, and female doctor student, a bit of drama but not too much and a great design for terror.

The old military ship is perfect with the shark moving around and they are all trapped.

All in all this movie deserves a higher rating and is well worth a rental at least its a very enjoyable shark movie.

You know what, I didn't expect much with this film, especially after reading the one review that was up, but I was pleasantly surprised,

The acting was pretty good with the exception of Julian Sands awful accent.

If you like decent shark movies, this is for you. If you want a truly good shark movie, I recommend 'Shark Under Paris'. That was terrific. In french with subtitles.

This film, whilst not having the budget of 'Shark Under Paris' is a good, lower budget shark movie.

I love shark movies and will watch most of them, some are so bad even I can't watch them. Some are so bad they're almost good.

This one is definitely amongst the better shark moveis out there.