Movie Review | Deep Water: Intriguing But Far From Thrilling – FilmyVoice
Directed by Adrian Lyne, who had earlier given us ‘Deadly Attraction’, ‘Indecent Proposal’, and ‘Untrue,’ this movie anchored by robust performances from Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, is predicated on writer Patricia Highsmith’s fifth novel, ‘The Canine within the Manger,’ which was first revealed in 1957.
Its narrative sways between a home drama and a psychological thriller, inside the wedding of picture-perfect Vic and Melinda Van Allen to find the damaging thoughts video games they play and what occurs to the people who find themselves caught between them.
Ben Affleck performs Vic, a profitable software program developer, and Ana de Armas essays his spouse Melinda, a stunted housewife who misses her freedom. They painting themselves as a super couple however beneath their shiny veneer lies the truth that their loveless marriage is held collectively solely by a precarious association, whereby to keep away from the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to bask in extra-marital actions, so long as she doesn’t desert her household.
Vic accepts this with out fault, and their relationship begins to pressure when Vic begins to resent the blokes his spouse dates.
When Vic turns into fascinated with the unsolved homicide of certainly one of Melinda’s former lovers, he takes credit score for the killing to discourage her present fling. Whereas Vic’s claims are interpreted by his buddies and the neighborhood as a darkish joke, Melinda is cautious, particularly when her lovers inexplicably desert her.
Her doubts enlarge when her present boyfriend Terry the Pianist, dies of their good friend’s swimming pool throughout a home get together. How their marriage crumbles beneath the load of resentment, jealousy, and distrust, varieties the crux of the narrative.
The movie works on a superficial stage the place it’s fascinating to look at this distinctive couple go about their lives. They’re a handsome couple, however their souls are as darkish and dank as the underside of a snail’s terrarium.
The low-key Affleck portrays Vic in the same masculine ambiguity that labored so effectively for him within the first half of his movie ‘Gone Lady.’ Equally, Ana de Armas is persuasive because the self-centered spouse who lives the lifetime of a singleton who drifts by means of her home life when it appears to go well with her and will or might not be conscious of the potential hazard she is scary.
The duo is aptly supported by the promising supporting solid, which incorporates Tracey Letts because the aspiring screenwriter Lionel, Jacob Elordi because the Pianist Terry, Lil Rel Howery as Vic’s buddy Nash. However the one who steals the present is the little woman who performs Vic and Melinda’s daughter. She is actually lovable.
Mounted with first rate manufacturing values the movie is pleasurable as a popcorn thriller, with intermittently erotic, tense, and creepy scenes, however sadly, by no means is there a second of nail-biting rigidity.
Movie: Deep Water
Director: Adrian Lyne
Solid: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Sprint Mihok, Finn Wittrock, Jacob Elordi, Rachel Blanchard, Michael Braun
Streaming on: Prime Video
Length: 115 minutes
–By Troy Ribeiro
