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Several men become trapped in a small pod underwater after they become separated from a ship.
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Geoffrey Macnab Independent (UK) As in Kevin Macdonald's recent submarine drama Black Sea, the film has moments of intensity and tension but risks becoming a trial of endurance for audiences. Rated: 3/5 Aug 21, 2015 Full Review Kate Muir Times (UK) Pressure is certainly the most predictable and formulaic film of the week. Rated: 2/5 Aug 20, 2015 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian The film is earnestly intended, but doesn't come to life. Rated: 2/5 Aug 20, 2015 Full Review Stephen O'Nion One Room With A View Too baggy for its moments of unease to resonate throughout an already lean runtime, Pressure can't quite rise above the level of mediocrity. At least it tries though. Rated: 3/5 May 4, 2019 Full Review Alison Rowat The Herald (Scotland) It is asking a lot of any director to put a group of men in a diving bell and sustain the same level of tension throughout. Rated: 3/5 Aug 23, 2018 Full Review Sarah Manvel Critic's Notebook The underwater setting, at the edge of human endurance, is a great place for telling an interest story. Unfortunately, Pressure buckles. Aug 10, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Idea interessante e personaggi ben mixati seppur non originali (molto simili a Black Sea). Tanto spazio a monologhi che rallentano oltremodo i ritmi, mentre l'adrenalina si fa attendere troppo e, visto il buon effetto che ha, sarebbe stata da sfruttare maggiormente. Alcuni elementi tecnici sono davvero poco credibili (i corpi cosi a fondo, gli animali che compaiono dal nulla, le nuotate a fondo senza tuta e senza conseguenze). Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member To gain tension you need to gain the respect of your audience and treat them as intelligent. It is not hard to realise in the first 20 minutes there is some fundamental faults with the story - even if you have never experienced deep sea diving. The director tries to build tension at the expense of common sense and this leads to a detachment from the film that is uncomfortable and pushes this film into the lower catagories. Shame as a bit more respect and attention to detail could have made this a far better watch considering the set and location costs must have been low. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Trapped in a room movie at its finest. All great acting, writing, directing, cinematography, score, everything made me feel like I was in that pod with those men. I love it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Litt spennende, ikke super kvalitet men okay. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a drama based on a deep sea diving bell getting stranded half a mile down when their ship sinks in a storm. We have four characters who need to work out how to get out of the sitation. As you'd expect in a one-room jeopardy film such as this it can only work with strong dialog and dramatic episodes, but it just plods from one disasterous attempt to escape to another. We see clips of their life as they dream or ponder their fate, but it does not grab you enough to particularly care. Ho hum film. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Trapped underwater in a pod and battling to the survive. I might be a little harsh with my rating on this, but I had my reasons. The film theme was not bad, pretty fresh, but the screenplay was not developed to its full potential. I know it is a low cost film with a limited cast, so I respect the production quality which really was better than what I expected, but the story was way simple and predictable. If it was a more edgy type, would have had best chance to impress the viewers, because there are lots people who take chances on small film like this. It's a 'trapped' concept. You can call it an opposite to 'Gravity'. I mean that story takes place above us and this one below the sea water. I did not anticipate to that level, because I knew it's limit, yet not very convincing. The other reason is there are lots of awesome B movies with innovative ideas I have seen where this film narrowly failed. This is a story of the diver's team who went to fix the damaged underwater pipeline gets trapped in a small pot after losing all the contact with their ship. So the team of four battles to survive in a hostile condition, especially the oxygen is their main concern till someone comes to rescue them. That's the story which reveals what happens to them in its 90 minute narration. The cast and crew's effort must be appreciated, because shooting some 30-40 per cent of the film underwater is really a tough job. At the beginning it looked promising, but later on it did not stay that way, especially the end was a kind of let down. It is a fictional tale, nothing like 'The 33', otherwise even for an ordinary story that inspired by a real event gets our sympathy. I don't think it is worth a watch, unless you got lots of spare time and want to pass it, then it would make a decent timepass film. 4/10 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Several men become trapped in a small pod underwater after they become separated from a ship.
Director
Ron Scalpello
Producer
Laurie Cook, Alan McKenna, Farah Abushwesha, Nick Chopping
Screenwriter
Alan McKenna, Paul Staheli
Rating
R (Some Disturbing Images|Language|Graphic Nudity)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 12, 2015
Runtime
1h 31m
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