Hi, Movie Recaps here.
Today I will show you an action, horror, sci-fi film from 2020, titled Underwater.
Spoilers ahead!
Watch out and take care.
The movie begins at Kepler 822, a facility operated by Tian Industries to research and
drill the bottom of the ocean.
Mechanical engineer Norah Price is going through her morning routine when the lights start
flickering and a leak appears on the ceiling.
She leaves the bathroom to investigate and is hit by the sudden waves coming through
the walls, indicating there's been a pressure breach.
She runs down the hallway and tries to warn people on the way to hurry to the bulkhead,
but only Rodrigo Nagenda joins her.
Once they reach the bulkhead, they intend to close the doors so the rest of the station
isn't destroyed as well, but the computer doesn't respond, so Norah needs to open it
up and force start it under unbearable pressure and little time.
Thankfully she succeeds, but she decides to wait before closing up because there are another
two crewmates coming down the hallway.
It's impossible for them to reach them before the breach does, though, so she ends up closing
the doors to stop the destruction from spreading and those two men are left behind.
The computer they're using explodes, making Norah and Rodrigo lose consciousness for a
few moments.
When they wake up, the emergency recording is telling them the station is 70% compromised.
Rodrigo thinks it was an earthquake, although there are some mysterious noises coming from
outside.
Norah tries to call for help to no avail, so she takes Rodrigo and they go looking for
the escape pods.
After checking their location and status in the CPU room, they must take a hallway full
of debris since it's the only way to reach the pods.
As they navigate the rubble as carefully as possible, they hear a voice asking for help
and find Paul Abel under a pile of rocks, he joins them after recovering his plush bunny.
The three of them crawl through a very tight space and even find the body of another crewmate
before finally making it to the pod bay, where Captain Lucien has stayed behind while others
escaped in the evacuation pods, all of which have already been deployed.
While Norah uses a computer to unjam the door, Lucien sends Paul and Rodrigo to check on
the submersibles.
Once the room is opened, Lucien takes Norah inside and checks her for injuries then sends
her to the control room when the guys inform them the submersibles are a no-go.
In the control room, Norah finds biologist Emily Haversham and engineer Liam Smith, who
are in a relationship.
As the other three men join them as well, Emily warns them that the energy accumulated
in the station has nowhere to go and could cause a meltdown any minute now.
Since they have no way to contact the surface, Lucien suggests they should move to a different
facility, the Roebuck 641, which would require them to wear pressurized suits and walk two
miles without knowing what could be waiting for them outside, but the crew doesn't like
the idea.
Liam plays a recording of the last transmission from the drill site, which sounds like the
men were being attacked by the same mysterious noise Norah heard before.
The temperature outside has also jumped ten degrees, which doesn't make sense because
water doesn't do that.
Seeing as they have no other choice, they accept the plan to go to the Roebuck.
The crew starts working on suiting up.
Emily is nervous because she has never dived before, and nobody has ever walked outside
for longer than a few minutes to fix a pipe.
Paul makes sure to bring his plush bunny with him, and Rodrigo checks the two last helmets
before handing one to Norah.
Because of the noises he heard in the recording, Liam decides to grab a gun before leaving,
and Paul copies that idea.
Once everyone is suited up, they get on the elevator, and Liam warns them that the exterior
hatch has been ripped to shreds so everyone should hold on tight because the pressure
will hit them hard.
Cracks start appearing on Rodrigo's helmet and Norah notices it, so she tries to tell
Liam not to open the door but it's too late: the water hits them and Rodrigo's helmet implodes,
killing him.
There's no time to grieve, though, they need to get going, so they jump into a cargo lift.
Norah feels guilty because she's sure Rodrigo knew his helmet was broken and gave her the
last good one on purpose, but Lucien tells her to get used to it.
As the lift takes them down, they receive a distress signal from one of the pods.
Thinking they may rescue other survivors, Lucien sends Paul and Liam to investigate,
Paul gives Emily his bunny before leaving.
It's dark outside and the platforms are unstable, but the guys keep going as they follow Norah's
directions.
The weird noises from before can be heard here as well, and they find the pod has imploded
and is covered by some strange kind of algae-like organism.
They also find a body, so since there's no one to rescue, Lucien orders them to come
back, but Paul doesn't listen.
He's distracted by a weird, liquified shape on the back of the body, which suddenly moves
and attacks him.
Liam shoots the creature and, moments later, they bring it inside.
Emily examines it, noticing its talons and the mouth it used to feed on the body, but
she can't find any eyes.
She's explaining the possibilities of having found a new species when the elevator suddenly
loses power and stops moving.
The noises from before can be heard outside and Paul realizes the creature they have is
a baby, so he shuts the door tight.
Norah manages to disengage the elevator, but for some reason, they still aren't moving.
All of the sudden, an adult creature appears at the window right before the Kepler explodes.
The elevator starts falling without control and the crew hurries to put their helmets
back on before they hit the seafloor; they barely make it out in time.
Once outside, they need to keep moving fast, because the debris from the explosion is falling
all around them.
Liam is hit, but Lucien and Norah save him and help him reach an intermediate station,
where they discover his oxygen scrubber is damaged.
Norah forces a control panel open to call a mover, which they ride through an access
tunnel while they hear the creatures following them from outside.
Unfortunately, they're forced to stop the mover midway because the tunnel is flooded,
so they continue on foot, only to find a moment later that more debris is blocking their way.
Since she's the smallest one, Norah volunteers to dive in to find a new way out, and she
does: there's a passage under the debris that may be tight but is still big enough for all
of them to cross.
Lucien attaches each crew member with wires before sending them in, they all cross through
without issues except for Paul, who can be heard saying he sees something behind him.
Since he isn't coming in, the crew starts pulling at the wires to bring him with them.
They manage to pull him through, but as soon as he takes off his helmet, his wire starts
being pulled from the other side.
Paul gives them his rabbit before putting his helmet back on and the crew tries their
hardest to keep a hold on him but it's too late, a creature rips him right out of the
suit and kills him.
The crew runs away before the creature gets them too and reaches a communications room,
where Lucien tries to ask for help to no avail.
Liam sees the drill through the window and wonders how it could've been destroyed like
that when it weighs six thousand tons, Emily replies this is their fault for digging too
deep into the bottom of the ocean and now she's taking back.
She reaches the conclusion that nobody should be down there, and Norah agrees.
Lucien notices the window is starting to crack and points out they can't stay in there any
longer, but they're worried about Liam because his suit won't be able to make it.
He tells them to go without him because he'll only be dead weight, but the others refuse
to leave him behind and agree to help him walk.
The four of them go out to cross the ocean floor and not much time passes before a creature
appears swimming around them.
They turn the suit lights off but it isn't of much help, the creature reappears and captures
Liam, taking him to a cave.
Since they can still see his foot by the entrance, Lucien enters the cave and finds him alive,
so he starts pulling him out.
After leaving Liam with the girls, Lucien goes back into the cave to retrieve the gun,
but the creature finds him and pulls him deeper inside, dragging Norah in as well because
she's hooked to him through the wires.
Norah lands on a floating platform and Lucien hangs tangled at the edge of it, she intends
to help him but the creature shows up and comes closer to put its mouth on her helmet.
Lucien jumps on the creature to push it away so the creature drags them with it as it descends
deeper into the water.
The pressure will kill them both soon, so Lucien sacrifices himself and unhooks his
suit from Norah's, so she floats away before he implodes.
Norah loses consciousness for a few seconds, and when she wakes up, she discovers her suit
is failing.
After being startled by an octopus, she runs away and finds a door that allows her to enter
the abandoned Shepard station.
After crying over the loss of her captain and changing into dry clothes, she checks
out the place.
Trying to send Emily a message doesn't work, but she does find a map of the drilling site
in Lucien's old locker.
Determined to survive, she puts on a different suit she finds around and grabs a flare gun
before going out to the ocean floor again to try to reach the Roebuck as they originally
planned.
She's following the markers when she starts to hear Emily's voice, so she hurries towards
her and causes Emily to run as well because she thinks Norah is one of the creatures.
Norah jumps on her and calms her down, telling her how proud she is of her for surviving
and keeping her boyfriend alive.
Together they drag Liam across the floor as they start walking again, keeping their worried
minds distracted with chitchat.
Norah tells Emily about her fiancé, who was Liam's best friend and disappeared during
a diving mission he took alone.
This is why she hates feeling powerless to change anything, and she thinks it's really
cool that Liam and Emily have each other.
Eventually, they finally come across the glowing Roebuck station.
As they enter it, they discover there is a nest of those creatures suspended from the
ceiling, seemingly sleeping or hibernating.
After turning off their suit lights, the girls attempt to sneak through, but their plan fails
when Emily's oxygen alarm starts ringing.
One of the creatures wakes up and grabs Norah, who tells Emily to grab Liam and run to the
door.
The creature starts swallowing Norah, so she takes out her flare gun and shoots her from
inside, effectively freeing herself.
The rest of the creatures are starting to wake up as well so Norah gets a second flare
bullet ready, only to notice the creatures are suddenly being lifted by something huge
and growling.
Norah shoots her flare gun in the distance and discovers the monster approaching her
is the ancient Cthulhu.
After a short moment of shock, she starts running away, but Cthulhu lands behind her
and causes an explosion that knocks her out.
Luckily, she's saved by Emily, who grabs her and takes her inside the station.
Norah is running out of oxygen but her helmet is stuck, so Emily grabs a fire extinguisher
and uses it to crack the helmet, allowing Norah to breathe again.
After helping Liam out of his suit, the three of them run through different hallways until
they find the control room, where they can see Cthulhu and its creatures through the
window.
Norah checks the station map on the computer, then guides her crewmates to the pod bay.
The station is slowly getting flooded and various doors are being locked by the emergency
system, but they manage to find their way after dodging some incoming waves.
There are three pods waiting for them, but only two of them are functional, and Norah
doesn't inform the others of this.
They put Liam in the first pod and send him out with Paul's plush rabbit, then it's Emily's
turn, but she refuses to get in when she discovers Norah's lie.
Since they're running out of time, Norah punches Emily and forces her to enter the pod, she
tells her things will be alright before sending her out.
Norah has accepted her fate, but she starts to worry when she realizes the creatures are
going after the pods.
Not wanting to feel powerless during her last minutes of life, she ideates a plan.
Remembering Emily said the stations have a lot of accumulated energy with nowhere to
go, Norah uses the computer to initiate an overload of the Roebuck's nuclear core, which
causes a massive explosion that kills her, Cthulhu, and its creatures and allows the
pods to escape safely.
The movie ends by showing us various news articles and reports that say all the information
is classified and nobody is allowed to talk to the survivors.
All surveillance footage has been destroyed, presumably by the damage, and Tian Industries
turns down government help with the investigation because they plan to rebuild and keep on drilling.