DEEP WATER MOVIE REVIEW

Deep Water is a return for director Adrian Lyne, after a 20 year absence from the genre he knows so well. The man brought us such sexy films as Fatal Attraction, 9 1/2 Weeks, Unfaithful, and Lolita (the ’97 one, not the Kubrick one). But has 20 years away from cinema taken away his bite… or possibly his nibble? Depends on what you’re into. Perhaps bringing on the hot-off-Euphoria Sam Levinson to handle script duties will help tell the sordid, sexy story of Vic (Ben Affleck) and Melinda Van Allen (Ana de Armas) as a couple living in the small town of Little Wesley, Louisiana with a rather unconventional arrangement. Vic is a retired robotics engineer, having amassed a small fortune developing the guidance chips used in combat drones. Melinda is a woman with an insatiable appetite for any man other than her husband. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Even then, their open marriage is made no secret amongst their friends, while Vic silently grows increasingly jealous of Melinda’s lovers. Frank, Eliot, Matt, and T.C. dive face first into the new erotic thriller and discuss their satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction with the amount of eroticism and/or thrills found in it.

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DIRECTED BY: Adrian Lyne

STARRING: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Grace Jenkins, Dash Mihok, Rachel Blanchard, Kristen Connolly, Jacob Elordi, Lil Rel Howery, Brendan C. Miller, Jade Fernandez, Finn Wittrock, Michael Braun, Devyn Tyler, Michael Scialabba, Jeff Pope, Paul Teal, Juliet Brett, Damon Lipari, Joel R. Martinez, Jaren Mitchell

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

 

 

Eliot Nelson (Screener Squad, Staff Writer)

Soaked in the soggy rains of Seattle, Eliot developed a love of sci-fi, movies, cartoons, heavy metal,