Pretty good.

Pretty much exactly what I expected.

There was way more human body horror than I expected. There’s a lot of extremely painful shite that happens in this movie and it’s not for the squeamish.

There is a LOT of magical realism at the end which I didn’t really love. Felt like a get out of jail free card and had me rolling my eyes. They play if off like it may not be magical realism but come on now.

It is at its heart very much a drama about fathers and sons and I think any father or son can relate to this in some capacity.

I cannot get over though just how brutal this movie felt to me though. Early on I kept thinking “this isn’t horror,” but the pain and trauma experienced is absolutely horrific to me.

Slight slight slight spoilers:
Theater was packed (of mainly coupled oddly enough) and randomly, near the when the main character is told to breathe, the entire movie theater started breathing deeply

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Posted on 10/17/26 at 9:15 pm to athenslife101

I thought it was pretty good as well. Some cool visuals during the orca fight by incorporating the echolocation.

I was pretty bummed when his jellyfish friend died.

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There was way more human body horror than I expected.

Yeah, the stomach acid hands and the beak clamped on his hand grossed me out. I don't mind body horror, but wasn't expecting that level of it.

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Posted on 10/18/26 at 12:03 am to Esquire

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I don't mind body horror,

I think a part of it is this doesn’t really feel like a horror movie so it’s just so matter of fact. Dude’s ankle is beyond fricked. His eardrums probably would have burst beyond repair.

They show him at the end and he’s kinda fricked up (and I think he did lose an arm but they didn’t show it) but if he actually went through that, he’d be permanently fricked up and in pain for the rest of his life. So I had very bleak feelings for most of the movie just thinking, yeah, this guy may survive but his life is over.

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I was pretty bummed when his jellyfish friend died.

Yep

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thought it was pretty good as well. Some cool visuals during the orca fight by incorporating the echolocation

I agree but the CGI took me out of the scene. All the stuff in the shallows was real cool, but the all black background when they go deeper and the lumincesent whale read a bit too otherworldly. I think it’s because we’re so used seeing the water in swimming scenes, it looked like a screen saver to me

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Posted on 10/18/26 at 10:27 am to athenslife101

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His eardrums probably would have burst beyond repair.

Now that you mention it, that part freaked me out more than anything. I think I have the world’s most sensitive ears when it comes to pressure changes. I spent my last flight in agony because my ears wouldn’t pop and I can’t go deeper than the shallow end of a pool without pain.

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They show him at the end and he’s kinda fricked up (and I think he did lose an arm but they didn’t show it) but if he actually went through that, he’d be permanently fricked up and in pain for the rest of his life. So I had very bleak feelings for most of the movie just thinking, yeah, this guy may survive but his life is over.

It was hard to tell when he was on the boat after the rescue, but when he was with his family it showed he lost the hand and about half of his forearm. That’s why his sister had to open the envelope for him.

You wouldn’t have caught me back on the water after that ordeal. Give me a one-way ticket back to Iowa so I can be as far away from the ocean as possible.

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