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With more than a few shades of Gone Girl, and with a sexed-up driving scene that will feel familiar to fans of Elordi's work on Euphoria, Deep Water heralds the return of the trashy and highly implausible Friday night thriller. The meat and potatoes plot involves Affleck's Vic looking the other way as his wife Melinda engages in extramarital affairs, but with her relationship with dishy Ricky (Jacob Elordi), he becomes pulled into the undertow himself. From director Adrian Lyne, the man behind steamy thrillers such as Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal, Deep Water is a classic tale of jealousy, lust and getting it on in the swimming pool. And if you have somehow managed to avoid the details of the film's dramatic climax after all these months, well, we'll say no more.įront and centre of your chaotic bingo card for 2022 is the long-awaited release of erotic thriller Deep Water, the film in which Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck (the couple whose whirlwind romance and very public break-up formed its own chapter of the pandemic) show off their on-screen chemistry. The script has been spruced by Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge, meaning there's some overdue development of female characters like Naomie Harris's Moneypenny, as well as a challenger to Bond's 00 status in new agent Nomi.
There's also plenty of callback references for Bond purists, with hints at Dr No in Malek's character, numerous nods to George Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and echoes of the trippy villain lairs of films like GoldenEye. Still, there's plenty of visual delights courtesy of cinematographer Linus Sandgren, from a creepy overhead opening shot that descends through the mist, to a car chase that rips through a Nordic forest and demolishes everything in its wake. The 25th Bond film has the difficult task of bringing together the various different storylines of the Craig era, and as a result the plot doesn't stand on its own two feet as much more than a climax of what has come before. There's also the return of many of the Bond Cinematic Universe, with the likes of Léa Seydoux and Ben Whishaw back for Craig's last hurrah, and in the director's chair is Cary Fukunaga, the auteur behind that first, perfect season of True Detective. That includes the latest film and final outing for Daniel Craig, No Time To Die, in which 007 finds himself up against a formidable opponent in Rami Malek's pockmarked Safin. Amazon's big Bond deal is good news for Prime customers, as the entire back catalogue of 007 is now available to stream on Prime Video.
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