As a young girl, Cassidy (Scout Taylor-Compton) watched in horror as a shark devoured her father. Years later, along with her husband Gregg (Callum McGowan), she takes it upon herself to face her fears and go diving for sunken treasure in the same spot where she lost her old man. Wouldn’t you just know it? They are attacked by sharks once again. When they flag down a passing vessel, they are dismayed to learn the captain (Jon Seda) is a drug smuggler who is searching the deep for a payload of cocaine. The desperate Cassidy eventually offers to dive and recover the drugs in the shark-infested waters in exchange for her friends’ lives.
As the title suggests, this is sort of like a mash-up of Into the Blue and The Deep with a little 47 Meters Down thrown in there for good measure. While the shark attack scenes are decent, the waters are often muddied (both literally and figuratively) by phony-looking CGI blood. They’re probably the best part of the movie. Once the action switches to the drug dealers coercing our heroes into diving for their loot, the pacing begins to sag.
The supporting cast is pretty weak. McGowan doesn’t really register as a hero, even though he’s top billed. Likewise, Stuart Townsend is rather bland as the boat captain. Seda is just too obnoxious to make a credible villain as he looks and acts like a Wish version of David “The Demon” DeFalco. I did think it was funny that he had a Michael Myers tattoo, seeing how Taylor-Compton played Laurie Strode in the Halloween remake. I’m not sure if that was intentional or not.
Seeing Richard Dreyfuss in another shark movie is kind of fun though. He plays Taylor-Compton’s grandfather who gets a cool speech about people being a “guest" in the shark’s environment. Too bad he’s mostly seen in flashbacks which are often intrusive to the narrative and take away from the immediacy of the action.
Other than the relationship between Dreyfuss and Taylor-Compton, Into the Deep is rather shallow.
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