Critic Reviews
55
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
10(50%)
mixed
7(35%)
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83
In the handsome, haunting submarine thriller Below, the usual perils of deep-sea maneuvers are heightened by psychic unraveling.
80
Twohy moves effortlessly between conventions of the sub and horror genres, with long tracking shots and masterful sound design, shock cuts and mismatched mirrors and reflections.
75
As ghost stories go, this one is handled with great subtlety and delicacy.
75
Twohy pulls all the strings to create an inventive genre piece.
70
Has a slamming first hour. As Ian Wilson's camera darts over Charles Lee's spookily atmospheric sets, enigmas sprout like mushrooms.
70
Twohy's a good yarn-spinner, and ultimately the story compels.
70
An ingenious hybrid of submarine movie and ghost story. And there's a wee bit of "Macbeth" in there too.
70
Until the ghost story takes over this is a tense and absorbing war picture.
63
A movie where the story, like the sub, sometimes seems to be running blind. In its best moments it can evoke fear, and it does a good job of evoking the claustrophobic terror of a little World War II boat.
63
With more character development this might have been an eerie thriller; with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie.
