Kathryn Newton and Lana Condor headline a generic but watchable Prime Video release made slightly more interesting by toxic friendship dynamics among the human bait.
By Guy Lodge
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Courtesy of Prime Video “Under Paris,” “Deep Water,” “Thrash,” “Chum” — the shark movies come so thick and fast these days, there’s scarcely any time between them to deem it safe to go back in the water. That said, if this recent run of films is to be believed, regular old beaches are fine these days. Seems the toothy predators are increasingly seeking less obvious locations to graze on wet human flesh: a mid-Pacific plane-crash site, the City of Lights, and now, in “The Devil’s Mouth,” a dark, dank, tight-squeeze cave in idyllic coastal Thailand. This claustrophobic danger zone brings a smidge of novelty to director Jeff Wadlow‘s aquatic thriller, but the formula is otherwise familiar: five hot young things on vacation, one bull shark very much in business mode, and a pecking order that most viewers can guess five minutes in.
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