HORRIBLE. I honestly feel bad for the cast because I feel like while they were not real great, I feel like they didn’t have much to work with. I read that the film was suppose to be on sight in Vietnam but due to Covid had to reroute plans and basically do it all in a studio in Florida. Trust me it shows. The visual effects are awful. It’s like I’m watching a high schoolers homemade film. If that were the case I’d be impressed, but for a professional crew? It’s just embarrassing. One thing I also don’t like is most shots you are glued into just the two characters without being able to see anything else in the shots for example, the sky, the raft, the ocean. It’s mainly like they got tired of having to CG everything that they just zeroed in on the actors and called it a day.
But when they do show the surroundings only like 5 shots does it actually look like they are where they seem to be. The beginning they are on a real beach for 5 minutes, the ending people are also on a real beach… actually I think that’s it. Everything else is a set and a bad one at that. It’s horrible. Even the water they are always in is dead calm like you can actually tell it’s a pool they didn’t even try to make it look like they could actually be in the ocean. When they show aerial shots of them in the water on a raft you can tell they literally had a scene of water and basically copied and pasted the raft over it like it’s laughable it’s even a film.
A lot of it also makes me think of what a lucid dream would be like, not that I would know. She finally arrives on a beach, falls asleep and is suddenly in water again running from sharks again. Even the coral she runs through under the ocean looks computer generated- could they not use at least real props? Then she’s on a beach again but for some reason there is intensely think fog and then she sees a raft with someone in it so back into the pool water she goes to get to him- some more shark fighting and all of a sudden she’s in the middle of the ocean yet again- then all of a sudden can finally see the shore like what??? They even made fake blood spatter appear on the screen from the fighting. Ughh it’s awful and my last complaint was they continuously show the actors reacting to something and then show just a shot of what they are reacting to like a dolphin swimming or something, but you can tell it’s a completely different clip as the lighting is all different and the shade of water is all different, then they pan back to the actors like they are all together. It was so cringey. I honestly feel so mean for even leaving this review but it was just so bad not to. I only gave 2 stars cause I feel bad. Please spare yourself. I feel bad- I also think the actors are good in other things I’ve seen them in truly they have talent but this was just not good for anyone. But I don’t know that it’s even their fault cause again they were probably just doing the best they could on a raft in a pool. They were basically playing make believe and the director said we’ll add all that in later just make it look real. Poor actors. They should have just post poned the film until they could do it on location maybe that would have made a difference.