The film has enough spooky momentum and good actors to keep it going.
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11/04/02
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Below (2002)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:10
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Below is a creepy, claustrophobic exercise in style.
Theatrical Release:Oct 11, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $469,939
Synopsis: In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship that came under German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse... [More]
Starring: Matt Davis, Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Scott Foley
Director: David Twohy
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11/03/02
Top CriticAn enjoyable, if occasionally flawed, experiment.
10/18/02
Top CriticIt's not original enough.
10/18/02
Top CriticTwohy's overwrought, comic-book theatrics work against him, as does the hokey script.
10/18/02
Top CriticThe reason Below gets beneath your skin is that the scriptwriters know what most current horror filmmakers never learned: Fear is an emotion, not a visceral response.
10/18/02
Top CriticBelow has ambitions to be better than average, but doesn't pull itself together and insist on realizing them.
10/18/02
Top CriticWith more character development this might have been an eerie thriller; with better payoffs, it could have been a thinking man's monster movie.
10/18/02
Top Critic...begins with promise, but runs aground after being snared in its own tangled plot.
10/18/02
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10/18/02
Top CriticBecomes swamped early on and spends the rest of its running time dragging itself to Davy Jones' Locker, and us along with it.
10/17/02
Top CriticDistances you by throwing out so many red herrings, so many false scares, that the genuine ones barely register.
10/17/02
Top CriticTwohy pulls all the strings to create an inventive genre piece.
10/17/02
Top CriticWhile director David Twohy arguably doesn't mine the premise for all it's worth, he gets enough out of it to make it an effective Halloween treat.
10/12/02
Top CriticTwohy knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying, and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record.
10/11/02
Top CriticIt's basically an overlong episode of Tales from the Crypt.
10/11/02
Top CriticA movie that plays like a gimmick, reliant upon one's appreciation of movie genres ranging from film noir to ghost stories rather than a tale that unfolds to its own rhythms and logic.
10/10/02
Top CriticBelow may not mark Mr. Twohy's emergence into the mainstream, but his promise remains undiminished.
10/10/02
Top CriticIf Below had been released in 1943 -- the year of its story -- it would have come in at an agile 70 minutes instead of a protracted 104.
10/10/02
Top CriticDirected by David Twohy with the same great eye for eerie understatement that he brought to Pitch Black.
10/10/02
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