The appeal of some films goes beyond the purely cinematographic, being ‘Deep Waters’ one of them. At the time there was much talk of the romance they had Ben Affleck and Ana de Armasits two protagonists, which came to an end more or less around the same date that its theatrical release was scheduled.
However, its launch was postponed just a couple of months before. Then the coronavirus arrived, causing a new postponement. Later it ran out of a release date and its arrival in theaters was finally ruled out to launch directly on streaming – in the United States through Hulu, while Amazon stayed with it in the rest of the world – this Friday. March 18th. I have already had the opportunity to see her and this erotic thriller it gives me something cold.
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Precisely another of the great claims of ‘Deep Waters’ is that it is the first film directed by adrien lyne since ‘Unfaithful’ in 2002, having previously dealt with such popular titles as ‘9 and a half weeks’, ‘Fatal Attraction’ or ‘An Indecent Proposal’. Adding to that the fact that his new job is based on a novel by Patricia Highsmitheverything pointed to a playful thriller of the most entertaining, but the result is closer to a suspense telefilm come to more than anything else.
There are two big axes on which ‘Deep Waters’ rests. The first is the open relationship between her two protagonists, which is still an excuse for her not to leave him. The second is her doubt about the possibility of him getting rid of her lovers, an idea that may seem like a joke at first but that is gaining more and more consistency.
The script of Zach Helm (‘Stranger than fiction’) and Sam Levinson, creator of ‘Euphoria’, tries to balance both options, but maximizing the suspense around whether or not the character played by Ben Affleck could be a murderer. Nor is it that they do a brilliant job, because in the end there is only one really interesting option, and thus they only manage to postpone the disappointment or take time away from the possibility of playing with it -which obviously was not going to reveal what is happening.-. A I know, I know manual.
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In addition, it is not that Lyne weaves an absorbing spider web around this fact, since it seems that the only thing that motivates him is to use the character of Ana de Armas as an object of desire, to the point that he ends up blurring it completely. , thus leaving in nothing how comfortable the Cuban actress is in the character. In fact, it is not that it is a much better film, but she had already explored that facet in a more satisfactory way, making life impossible for Keanu Reeves in ‘Knock Knock’.
Something else highlights Affleck, since ‘Deep Waters’ feeds back on how well that possible dark side of the actor was handled in the far superior ‘Gone Girl’, but the portrait of his character also ends up being a bit erraticturned more into a tool for the story – something even more evident with the insipid secondary characters – than someone with their own voice.
That is something that ends up affecting the film at all levels, being in its erotic component where it is closest to making its promises good -do not expect anything revolutionary, but much more spicy than usual in this type of Hollywood production- . But in the part of suspense there is no successful atmosphere or a script that puts everything together in such a way that it has you trapped, since it ends up being more likely to end up bored than anything else.
In short
‘deep waters’ is a discreet film that is, to a certain extent, generous in the erotic part, but as a thriller it does not engage. In addition, their characters do not finish working either and their viewing becomes heavy when we should have found here a playful proposal that knew how to squeeze the base material.