In 1998 Darren Aronofsky put out his film Pi, and several studios chased after him to write or direct a movie for them. He signed one deal for a film called Proteus which was going to be a combo of submarines with aliens.
Because Hollywood is as Hollywood does, this movie instead became whatever it is, which is a box office bomb submarine ghost movie directed by the guy that did The Chronicles of Riddick. The movie that this became is Below, oddly enough starring Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, and a bunch of other "that guy" type people who you probably saw in a 90s movie or an odd single episode of a TV show.
Below did turn the aliens into ghosts, and the submarine in the movie is picking up random pings and noises and odd things are happening everywhere and its all very scary and shit. They also pick up female science officer Claire, who begins to stir up trouble on the ship cause she's a female but also cause she uncovers a story of a dead submarine captain, she sees signs of the ghosts, and she isn't under the new captains thumb the way the officers are.
Below isn't really scary or interesting, it moves quite slowly, and relies on an atmosphere for effect, but for me, it didn't do much. I do not understand watching something that is in close quarters and getting claustrophobic, just like I couldn't watch something up high and feel fear of heights. I'm not there. I can parse that out real quick. Other than that, nothing is really made clear or dangerous enough for you to be interested in the goings on so you watch, bored, wondering about the making of instead.
It could have been worse, but overall its one of those movies that's not even fun to talk about, so I will only give it 1.5 stars.
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