Deep Water
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. 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.
- Released: 2022-03-18
- Runtime: 116 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Stars: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Rachel Blanchard, Lil Rel Howery, Jacob Elordi, Dash Mihok, Kristen Connolly, Jade Fernandez, Finn Wittrock, Damon Lipari, Michael Braun, Shauna Rappold, Brendan Miller, Gregory Hobson, Jaren Mitchell, Devyn A. Tyler, Jeff Pope, Jade Fernandez, Sheenan Cole, Michael Scialabba, Krystal Tomlin, Armando Leduc, Jason Edwards, Kelly Connolly, Paul Teal, Andrew Penrow, Grace Jenkins, Juliet Brett, Sam Malone, Martinez, Sefenech Henok, Anna Bruno, Tiffany Christy, Joanna Connor, Maddison Marx, Goldie Lowe, Darius “Da Bucket Banga” Lindsley
- Director: Adrian Lyne
Comments
- francescabalzani-26183 - 11 May 2024
An embarassing nonsensical story
Vic Van Allen and his beautiful wife Melinda seem to have it all, they are rich and free, apart from a little detail: she cheats on him constantly and he kills her lovers, because he does not want to break up with her.
Why doesn't he want to break up wirh her? Not clear, of course she is beautiful and sexy, but she is also a spoilt nymphomaniac. She gets really annoying after a while and he does too, as his actions are incomprehensible.
They live their life partying, having dinners, getting drunk, basically doing nothing interesting and that is because he's very rich, but especially because there is a serious lack of brain usage, especially for what concerns Melinda.
The film is supposed to be a thriller, but most of it is just pseudo-erotic, hinting at sex all the time. Normally there should be some sort of suspance in a thriller, but this one reveals the truth immediately and then procedes to nothing, in the sense that at the end nothing much happens: he kills her last lover, the two "loving birds" get close again (just because he gave her a collection of old photos) and when she discovers he has killed again she wants to leave but stays, convinced by their four year old daughter, who seems the most sensible character of all.
An utter disappointment and a total nonsense. - micheyglez - 24 February 2024
Simp! Simp! 304! 304!
I can't believe this movie was even made. What a simp/304 of a movie. Hollywood really showing us what these actors and actresses are behind closed doors with no cameras on them. This movie was asinine and what actually is even more stupid, its based off a book?!
People enjoying their partners being with someone else right under their noses.
Ben and Ana played this to the point that we actually believe that's how they really are in reality. Ana only does movies with no depth or show her intelligence. Just how much of a 304 she can be and that she can be an evil woman. Ben, is just a simp.... - cxnxbhhs - 13 July 2023
Quite unset
Quite unsettling. Many men, and maybe women will feel unsettled when watching the frivolous behaviour of the wife. The movie is a slow burner and makes you ask the same question- what would you do if that was you? Would you stay calm? Would you go and kill the lover?
The movie is provocative in many ways.
It shows that there is a limit indeed in the open relationship concept, which you might think this is in the very beginning of the story.
Ana is also playing her game very well, challenging her husband to get out of his shell and do what every man would do - claim what is his and eliminate all the competition. - nostromout - 25 October 2022
Slightly Better Than Rating
This was a polished story with great presence by Affleck and adequate performances by remaining cast. While I did say the story is polished, the story itself was somewhat weak. I was surprised to learn this story was originally a novel given it feels diminutive. The same trope has been told better, but like I said, the movie overall is still just adequate, if only because it was pushed there by Affleck.
Arma's character was very unlikeable and annoying, but we can't let that detract from our evaluation of her performance, which was adequate.
Without the cast, this would have been a throwaway, but with the cast, it is worth watching. - kimvj - 26 September 2022
Couldn't Watch it till the end. That bad.
This is one of the worst storylines I've seen in years. The movie suggests you should sit back and watch a super nice thriller, but the writers forgot to write a story that made sense. Too bad, waist of my time. I'd expacted more of a Ben Afflec movie.
The movie is about a couple who are together because of... I don't know why they are together. I spend a big part of my evening to wait for the reason they are together, so the movie would make sense. But I could't figure it out. So, in the end I just stopped watching, assuming it wouldn't become clear in the last 30 minutes.
A really intellectual twitsplot that would explain why in earthsname he is having a relationship with this woman (who runs around like she is some teenage kid) would have saved this movie, but I could't make it till the end to find out.
