Open Water 2 - Adrift (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Ali Hillis, Cameron Richardson (II), Niklaus Lange, Richard Speight Jr., Susan May PrattBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Published: 2007-02-01
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
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DVD Review: This "sequel" does not maximize the potential of being adrift
Summary: 3 Stars
Sequels really are miss or hit propositions and the rule of thumb these days is that if the two film scores a star less than the original then they are way ahead of the came. Given all the sequels that are out there the number that are as least as good (e.g., "The Godfather 2," "Aliens") let alone better (e.g., "Spider-man 2"), are extremely rare. "Open Water 2" (a.k.a. "Adrift" in Europe), had a chance of being as good as the original "Open Water," but the ending is a bit too melodramatic for my taste. However, it is nice to see plot justified nudity, which might be an even greater cinematic rarity these days.
The set up is that a group of high school friends get together for a getaway on the yacht of Dan (Eric Dane), who is already having fun with Michelle (Cameron Richardson), his girlfriend of a fortnight when the others get on board. Amy (Susan May Pratt) and James (Richard Speight Jr.) bring aboard their baby daughter Sarah, and then there are Lauren (Ali Hillis) and Zach (Niklaus Lange), who appear to finally be single at the same time. Getting Amy on board is a big deal because when she was a little girl her father had a heart attack and drowned while they were swimming, so she has an understandable case of aquaphobia and walks around on deck with a life preserver on. When Dan grabs her and jumps into the water she absolutely freaks and the next thing we know everybody else is in the water with her. Then somebody notices that the ladder on the yacht was never deployed and they have no way of getting back on board.
The movie is one of those that is "based on actual events," although I think in this case it is just the basic idea of everybody on board being in the water and not being able to get back on the boat is the extent to which this story is based on actual events (to wit, this situation has happened more than once in the history of the world). Consequently, it is the basic situation that rings true and not the number of people in the water, what they had, the baby on board, or the rest of what the screenwriters came up with here. Maybe some of what they try to do to get back on board were things that have happened in real life or then again they might be the rest of creativity by the writers and actors. For me the key thing is that this is a plausible situation and for somebody who watches the first episode of "Survivor" each season and halfway through comes to the conclusion that I would be dead at this point long before I was ever voted off the island it is relatively easy to relate to the sheer terror it invokes.
With a half-dozen people in the water instead of only two there are exponentially more opportunities for conflict between the characters, which this film goes out of its way to exploit. Several times I found myself thinking that these people would be in better shape if the right way would just die because addition by subtraction seemed like a reasonable response to the deteriorating situation. However, it really is the situation more than the characters that matters here because the whole idea of what would you (or could you) do in this situation is the entire hook of the movie. Unlike the first "Open Water" film, where the abandoned couple are floating in the ocean, dodging sharks and waiting for somebody on their charter to figure out they are missing, safety for these people treading water is so close they can touch it. They just have to find a way to get back on board.
This is where "Open Water 2" finds itself treading water, because for every bright idea that these people come up with there seems to be a corresponding act of stupidity. Your enjoyment of this 2006 film will depend entirely on how much of this you can take before such things ruin the film for you. The cell phone scene just about did me in, but I remained interested in the pragmatics of the situation, trying to think what they could do to save their lives and knowing that it was not going to be soon enough to ever save them all (a larger casts insures more deaths). For me the ending is what caused me to round down instead of up on this film. It is a good thing I was watching it on DVD instead of a theater (not that it ever came any where near the Zenith City), because I had to stop when the credits rolled and go back to make sure I understood what I was seeing (I still am not sure how to read the final three shots). But the end game of "Open Water 2" wants to have its cake and eat it too, and opts for emphasizing the psychological problems of the characters over the practical considerations of staying alive, which is where melodrama swamps the decks of this film.
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