47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: August 16, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
78
TheWrapTodd GilchristAug 14, 2019
Roberts populates convincingly elaborate underwater sets with a suitably appealing cast for a claustrophobic adventure that manages to deliver some real terror before it somewhat inevitably levels up into absurdity. Read full review
75
The Associated PressMark KennedyAug 14, 2019
Roberts has clearly been given a bigger budget and it shows in the nicely realized submerged city the poor young women must navigate. He’s saddled with a terrible film title — 47 meters was the depth of the ocean floor in the first film — but none of that matters once the air tanks and masks go on. Read full review
67
ConsequenceTrace ThurmanAug 14, 2019
47 Meters Down: Uncaged may be a bit slight in the script department and features some cartoonish aquatic beasts, but it delivers non-stop, anxiety-inducing terror once it reaches its halfway point. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDerek SmithAug 14, 2019
The film more or less keeps things efficiently moving, wringing white-knuckle tension less through jump scares than from the darkness of a seemingly infinite void. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanAug 14, 2019
It takes a lot of chops to shoot the majority of a movie underwater, and Johannes Roberts is a skillful crafter of images ... But he’s a throw-what-he-can-at-the-audience director, and there’s little in 47 Meters Down: Uncaged that really sticks. The shocks, however, are consistently well-timed, and for the audience that seeks out a movie like this one that’s probably enough. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoAug 14, 2019
47 Meters Down is still the alpha of this franchise pack, but Uncaged's stealth "slasher but with sharks" structure is an approved and entertaining surprise. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeAug 14, 2019
It’s refreshing to see a genre film-maker do more than rely on simple tricks and although his knack for dialogue might be questionable, he’s more than capable of constructing a nifty set-piece. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAug 14, 2019
Set disbelief aside, and primal phobias may well suffice to get you happily to the other side of this adventure. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloAug 14, 2019
Uncaged improves on the first film only with its ending: This one boasts a modestly effective twist rather than a truly moronic one. Encouraging, but not nearly enough to justify a third trip down this 47-meter well. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 14, 2019
Roberts, working with a much larger scenic and visual palette this time, seems adrift. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAug 16, 2019
Not even the most devoted of Mandy Moore fans would mistake 47 Meters Down for a good movie by any means. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 14, 2019
There are small spurts of creativity ... but everything else about the production feels more watered down than the landscape our four interchangeable leads find themselves flailing about in. Read full review
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IndieWireJude DryAug 15, 2019
Without the star power of Mandy Moore and the relative sophistication of the single location predicament, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged is just the last gasp of a shark saga that didn’t need to come up for air. Read full review
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Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 17, 2019
A moment, please, to appreciate that 47 Meters Down: Uncaged contains a landmark in shark attack cinema (which is a genre, don't question me). Finally, a film has dethroned Deep Blue Sea for the title of "dumbest and most hilarious chomp-chomp moment." Read full review
30
The New York TimesBilge EbiriAug 15, 2019
It’s hard to care for characters when what they do and say rings so false. The result plays like the kind of sleazy exploitation movie that the first one so studiously avoided becoming. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 15, 2019
The foreshadowing is too too obvious, the assorted set pieces have no punch and little logic. Read full review
25
Original-CinLiam LaceyAug 15, 2019
The sharks are disappointingly not scary but they’re interesting-looking with their plastic torpedo heads and serrated-saw smiles. When they leap out of the dark to dismember bodies, they bloody the waters in swirling lava lamp patterns that feel almost peaceful. Or perhaps I’m just trying to find a nicer way to say dull. Read full review
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