Mako

The idea is new for an Egyptian movie, but it lacks almost every sense of the original idea. The movie should have kept you interested until the very end, but this one ended before you knew it. I like the directing and the under water shots. In fact, they actually dived in for the movie. But the ending just makes no sense. There are an enormous number of mistakes that just can't be ignored. They rushed into the scenes to cut short the movie and spent almost half of the movie on pointless scenes. I would not recommend it..

I really wanted to give this movie a chance but it was disappointing to say the least. I don't know much about these actors, they are probably famous in Egypt but their ham acting and unnecessary overacting just ruins the movie. This is the same problem with Bollywood actors. They try to bring their stardom out and ham out everything and make it unbearable to watch. The calmest actors in this movie are the marine life. These people should never get into the water again and they deserve to be eaten by the sharks. I never once felt sorry for them. Stupid people deserve stupid things. Netflix is garbage as always nothing new about that.

A word of caution if you choose to watch this movie, prepare to be bored for about 44 minutes ... and then confused for the remainder of the experience. For a movie called Mako, I would guestimate that sharks have less than 3 minutes of total screen time. The plot also becomes increasingly difficult to follow once the film crew goes underwater: first, the characters are nearly unidentifiable with their scuba gears, and second, actual events are interspersed with scenes that represent hallucinations induced by depth narcosis. On the plus side though, the underwater cinematography is fairly impressive, all things considered.

I don't know what this is really. No acting. No story line. Nothing whatsoever. What were they thinking? I don't know. It's a failure for me by all means. First time to hold my mobile while watching a movie in theatre. I did not do it even in Deadpool.

I'll start this off by saying that I'm a Divemaster.

I have dived the Salem Express twice now, and it's a very easy tourist dive, lying on its side (not on it's keel like in the movie), in always warm, relatively shallow clear water. Any diver would be thrilled to see a shark around the wreck, and larger sharks in the northern Red Sea are virtually unheard of.

If you dive, you might derive entertainment from the absolutely ludicrous diving practices and inaccurate technical references. It makes "47 Meters Down" look like a tech divers manual in comparison. It's so bad, it's good, me and my diver girlfriend were in stitches.

The acting is lamentable, with the air of a hammy low-budget sitcom and scripts that have only had a single cursory read-through.

However, what does come through is a reflection of the myriad social issues that are facing young adults trying to find freedom in many theocratical and conservative middle-eastern and north african societies.

While all- Egyptian, the principally young cast are desparately trying to portray themselves as highly westernised, wealthy, secular and progressive hipsters. Not accurate for much of Egypt in my experience.

The more capable and senior female characters have the unenviable task of trying to manage suffocatingly arrogant, selfish and incompetent Egyptian manchildren, who are historically used to being in charge regardless of their actual abilities, the only truly accurate depiction of Egypt in this movie.