Submerged

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1 hr. 39 min.

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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Friends are targeted by kidnappers and have to fight to survive after their limo is forced into a canal.

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Tough crowd here. It's not shakespeare, that's for sure. I enjoyed it, tho. The acting was a bit stiff, but the flashbacks were effective enough and at least there was enough there to keep my interest, albeit on and off. Nothing original, but still worth a covid watch.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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This is about the worst acting I've ever seen in my life. If I was in a car accident with a group of people and we ended up under water with air to breathe, I am very sure that every single person would not be absolutely screaming and flipping out at the top of their lungs, panicking and trying to push the ceiling upward so that they have more room. I can see one person possibly reacting that way but not every single person in the car. People are not that stupid overall. This is going to fall into a Darwin category and if these people are that pathetic they will all surely die either in this car on your way home afterwards.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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I can't tell if it's low budgeting or part of the plot but I think the girlfriend from the beginning of the movie was recycled as a bad guy in the end? Can't tell but still 5/5 stars would recommend to everyone I know

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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I thought the movie was fantastic! So many twists and turns from beginning to end! I thought the acting was phenomenal as well!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Decent film, done correctly with only lacking interest in the overall screenplay as it appears to be abit stretched on premise verse enough story to fill runtime intercut with sub plots that dont really pan out- just bloat.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Submerged itself drowns in the final twenty or so minutes, which are astonishingly misguided. When the main bad guy is finally revealed, it's a complete disaster. The actor starts using a sing-songy voice and delivering lines as though in a comedy. This is a far too common occurrence in low-rent thrillers. It's as though performers think they need to be witty-evil instead of just evil, so they go for this overly broad, borderline campy approach. Providing the name of the actor playing the villain would be a spoiler, but the guilty party gives one of the worst performances of the year. This person is so not-menacing that it sucks the life right out of the big finale. After the revelation of the bad guy, Submerged caps off with a â??surpriseâ?? twist that will be apparent in the first ten minutes to any viewer who has their eyes open, or is familiar with Roger Ebert's Law of Economy of Characters. (Google it.) Scott Milam's screenplay is at its laziest here, going for the obvious and predictable rather than for anything that might legitimately earn the audience's engagement. Then again, the whole film is pretty lazy. The techniques used to make it seem as though the car is underwater are effective, but that's about the only thing that works. There's a very cool little B-movie to be made from this premise. Submerged isn't it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Steven C. Miller

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Jonathan Bennett

Matt

Talulah Riley

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Rosa Salazar

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Samuel Hunt

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Cody Christian

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

As good as the concept might be, as strong as Bennett (best known as the object of Lindsay Lohan's affections in Mean Girls) is as the psychologically scarred and physically injured hero, Milam's screenplay just never finds a comfortable groove.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 18, 2016

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Jordan Hoffman

Guardian

Submerged suffers from a misunderstanding that anyone would want to watch this movie seriously.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 27, 2015

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

The jumbled chronology is the movie's biggest misstep. The writer and director don't seem to trust their own premise, jumping around in time to fill in the dull details of why the limo's in the drink.

Nov 26, 2015

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Rob Hunter

Film School Rejects

Save your breath and your time - let Submerged sink to the bottom of your to-watch pile.

Dec 6, 2015

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Matt Donato

We Got This Covered

Submerged is a whole mess of tension primed to leave viewers in an anxiety-induced pile of helplessness, which means it does its job pretty damn well.

Rated: 7/10

Nov 26, 2015

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Maitland McDonagh

Film Journal International

Aquaphobes beware: Submerged is a strong contender for the title of "2015 Release Most Likely to Give You an Anxiety Attack."

Nov 25, 2015

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Synopsis

Friends are targeted by kidnappers and have to fight to survive after their limo is forced into a canal.

Director: Steven C. Miller
Executive Producer: Robert Ogden Barnum, Cassian Elwes, Cynthia Guidry
Screenwriter: Scott Milam
Distributor: IFC Films
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 27, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 20, 2017

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