A handful of them survive and end up on a make-shift raft drifting around in a foggy sea hoping for rescue - unlikely in this thick fog anytime soon. Then a Great White appears and starts to terrorise them on their floating platform.
The saving grace I guess for the film is that is is "based on actual events" so it's hard, given that, to criticise. But I will anyway! The make-shift raft they are on in is absolutely rock-steady most of the time in the water. I know the sea is supposed to be 'still' in the fog but there would certainly have been some movement, certainly when people move around on it!
The whole set was clearly that - in a studio with a very controlled, unrealistic environment which kinda made if just feel, well, not real, I'm afraid. What budget there was, was spent on the shark footage and special effects when various limbs and body parts ended up in the shark, guts, gore, blood and severed tissue. The highlight of the film really.
I'd not heard of the director or any of the actors, one or two of them who were not too bad. So given all the above, the film has to sink or swim(!) on the tension, atmosphere and suspense involved in their plight. Sadly, because of all the above, that was blown out of the water(!) too.
Sorry filmmakers, but this was a sad and terrible story that really needed to be made with a bigger budget - and if it had, it could well have been great. Instead, inconsistencies left, right and centre, plot holes aplenty, irrational outcomes even to certain sub-events. So much so that, and I haven't researched, it makes you wonder how much of any of this is close to the truth.
Oh, and the first half-hour of the film was totally wasted with a boot-camp training exercise on land for the soldiers as a getting-to-know the characters, which just falls flat and is not needed. Start at about 20 minutes in when their ship is about to get bombed, is my advice. Anyway, see what you think if you have a subscription to AppleTV and fancy a go. And I haven't put you off!
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