Row review: The impressive cast, largely unknown, keep maritime horror | Cinema

WAter, like the human psyche, is unpredictable and is full of beasts that stalk the depths, so he says a lot about our primary fear of the ocean that boat movies often offer threats under the surface, in the form of sharks, or psychosis or both. With Row, a handful of surprising jump cuts that show blood splashed around a boat and setbacks from the protagonist Megan (Bella Dayne, very impressive) shouts, but the viewer needs to wait for a time of execution somewhat unreasonably long to find out if the antagonists here are biting fish or murderers that change knives.

All we know at the beginning is that Megan is the only survivor of an attempt to break the record to row through the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the United Kingdom with four crew members, two men and two women. Having washed in the Orkney Today’s islandMegan spends most of the present time of the film in bed recovering when he doesn’t tell Dci Mackelly (Tam Dean Burn) what happened after her, her best friend Lexi (a spark Sophie Skelton), Captain Daniel (Akshay Khanna) and the mysterious man Mike (Nick Skaugen), a last minute of Lexi’s reproduction for Lexi for Lexi Strepan). But how reliable is Megan as a narrator?

The writer and director Matthew Slasso, who debuted with this, dispenses the revelations with skill, although there are some stumbling blocks in motivational logic and the last five minutes of final twist, which perhaps squeezes the narrative in half. However, for a film with such a small cast, mostly unknown and presumably a limited budget, the effects are very impressive, especially when the boat throws a storm on waves of the size of the whales. Like the film itself, the small boat has a surprisingly large arsenal of technology at its disposal, but, of course, bad things happen, sometimes by accident and sometimes because of a cruel design. Despite the aforementioned limitations, Row joins surprisingly well, thanks in part to the intense chemistry of the set, surprising cinematography and especially good good sound and score.