Something in the Water

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Something in the Water

R

2024

1h 26m

Mystery & Thriller

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Five friends reunite for a wedding in the Caribbean. The day before the ceremony they go out on a boat to party and accidentally head into shark infested waters. Now they must face their fears and fight for survival in the open waters.

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Mildly diverting at best, Something in the Water leaves viewers adrift in a choppy sea of familiar genre beats and underwhelming scares.

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Autostraddle

09/06/2024

Still, it’s a mostly fun late-summer film, would likely go down easy with a drinking game.

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Ian Freer

Empire Magazine

06/28/2024

2/5

The female-first vibe is refreshing but Something In The Water is something old, nothing new, a lot that is borrowed and an eyeful of twinkly blue.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

06/24/2024

2/5

Something in the Water is competently filmed, with lots of propulsive underwater shark’s eye shots of the flailing legs of the bridesmaids. But there’s rather too much time spent watching the girls bobbing and bickering in the middle of the ocean.

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Jayne Nelson

Radio Times

Mar 31

2/5

On the downside, the central couple's issues seem bolted on from another story, the dialogue is often unconvincing and the low-budget sharks are very, very silly.

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

07/23/2025

Ominous music, underwater shots of legs flailing, and drone footage of the requisite fin do well to create tension in this generic shark attack horror.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

03/01/2025

3/5

If you want to have fun for just under an hour and a half (there was no reason for it to last longer than that), there are worse options on streaming platforms. [Full review in Spanish].

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Otis Avalon R

@RT92861551 Jul 6

I could tell this was a woke female director about 30 seconds into the film.

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M K

@RT95333772 Jul 5

Group of friends making one stupid decision after another... I wouldn’t recommend. Total lose of time

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Jojo A

@RT51633185 Apr 11

awful, cringy, unoriginal, boring. whole thing feels staged for disaster. Worst group of terrible friends, stupid characters, terrible acting, vomit inducing overacting. anticlimatic. awful shark animation and unreal attack scenes. even the sharks dont know what the hell they are or meant to be doing. at the end even the coastguard is totally off character and is a side extra. the sharks seem to deliberately put enough effort and aim into playing to the directors hands. starts of looking like a graphical horror, ends up being a bunch of softies (the sharks). Jaws the original is far superior to this piece of ****

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gerald C

@RT78474501 Apr 11

utter crap don't bother

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TRISHA M

@RT16319008 Apr 10

I watched as much as I could… had to switch off. What a load of rubbish. Stupid young women. I don’t believe anyone would be so dumb to get themselves in that ridiculous situation… absolute tosh!

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Theresa U

@RT75292048 Mar 31

I’ve seen a fair few shark films in my day, and I have to say this is fairly decent once you get past the initial character intro. Worth a watch !

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Synopsis

Five friends reunite for a wedding in the Caribbean. The day before the ceremony they go out on a boat to party and accidentally head into shark infested waters. Now they must face their fears and fight for survival in the open waters.

Director: Hayley Easton Street
Producer: Julie Baines
Screenwriter: Cat Clarke
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: StudioCanal
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Bloody Images|Some Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2024
Runtime: 1h 26m

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