“An all female crew–” You realize in that line alone that it’s going to be bad. Tara wakes up sedated while Lucas strokes her hair. Lucas has been obsessed with Tara since the sixth grade. Now is his moment to show Tara how much he is in love with her. It seems like Amy and Tara have more chemistry than with Lucas.
The feedbackers here who gave it 8 and 10 – actually anything over 2 – obviously wouldn’t know a truly great, high-quality movie if they saw one. Dead in the Water looks good even if you don’t get its initial gist. That’s thanks to lush cinematography by Nathan Haugaard that appears like something Sam Mendes would have done circa twenty years ago. Director Miyata is also committed as she gets all Hitchcockian on us.
Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Nanea Miyata-directed movie via subscription can be challenging, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting. Lifetime Television®, LMN®, Lifetime Real Women® and Lifetime Digital™ are part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A+E Networks. Dead in the Wateris the first of three films that will make their world premieres on Lifetime Movie Club. I enjoyed this suspense/thriller since I wasn’t entirely aware of the entire premise or story and I came from it not being disappointed, as I have been with more contemporary productions. Lately, I’ve seen movies that totally rely on a gore and violence fest to keep the audience entertained.
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This isn’t just a paint-by-numbers thriller; it’s a drink-the-paint-and-puke-it-onto-the-numbers thriller. Well I have to be a bit biased with the feedback since I used to be an aspiring photographer myself. Another guaranteed TV movie ride by Lifetime Movies in the suspense/thriller section. In this movie in the exact order first the suspense and then thrilling end which could have happened in real life (that’s why I get the bad feedback of previous feedbacker about unbelievability) but still in far-fetched novel more likely. I do not agree with the commenting that the movie is “very boring” or “predictable”.
Tara brings along her camera and special lenses to try out in the lap of nature, and she inadvertently captures the image of a voyeur on one of her photographs. She also brings along a lot of baggage from the past. Get the scoop on new movies with exclusive clips, and more when you sign up for Lifetime Movies email updates.
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative feedback and wrote, “None of the performers are able to bring life to their schematic characters, although Nelson appears to be having fun as a modern-day pirate”. The psychologies of all the characters were insane. I appreciated how straight forward it was compared to the other Lifetime movies I watched. Did a good job of portraying a casually sociopathic rich person. Imagine still being friends with Amy in that last scene.
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That scene comes to in a series of flashbacks throughout. In order to fully let go of her past, Tara is put through a gruesome trial. But the final directorial touch on the film of a sinister shadow following Tara implies that she still may not have fully broken the shackles of a deeply troubled life and that she may still be metaphorically dead in the water. The best dialogue in the film was the acerbic repartee between Tara and Amy. There was one unforgettable cat fight in which the two women leave nothing on the table about how they feel towards one another.
After fighting the two men David and John leave the bar. John invites David who they refer to as Coop and his wife on a trip to retrieve his paid for yacht in the virgin islands. John mentions to David that he needs to talk to a therapist about what is happening to him and he shrugs it off with no concern on top of putting his daily dose of pills in the sink. Vivian returns home from work and talks about how John called her about the vacation and suggests that they go and need this time. Later that night David tells Vivian that they can go on the trip. Arriving at the boat John talks to the couple about touring the boat before they leave the dock.
I liked the characters who were not over-the-top and pretty much kept the story going in the movie. The camera work was quite smooth and artsy without having to resort to craggy shots from one scene to another, which I see in modern thrillers. I was entertained enough to like it for a Saturday night pick.
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Tara is less focused on the house and more concerned with the wifi situation, for her vlog. The lake house also appears to be haunted, so there is that. Amy suggests the girls have a getaway at her parent’s lake house in the middle of nowhere. Painfully predictable, uninteresting characters, drab dialogue. The only redeeming quality was the scenery, which looks like the northwest coast.
Married couple Vivian and David Copper are talking about their vacation being something go for them three weeks prior leading up to. David Copper a retired marine and his brother’s best friend John are at the bar talking about what is going on in David’s life at the time. When they overhear a few guys insulting his wife who was reporting the news on TV.
Nanea uses interesting camera angles, slow burn minatory, and stylish whims to get the audience going. Her film eventually takes the easy way out by descending into a plot about a psycho obsessing and stalking a young female. Directed, written, and produced by one woman (Simi Valley’s own Nanea Miyata), Dead in the Water chronicles a photog named Tara .
Well, that is until a handsome stranger named Lucas shows up with five a clock shadow. He is backpacking through the woods and asks to use their lake house to charge his phone. Things take a turn towards a nightmare when a mysterious stranger calling himself Lucas arrives at the lake house. But it soon becomes clear that he is obsessed with Tara. Tara will be put to the ultimate test when Amy invites her to spend a weekend at her parents’ beautiful lake house. An aspiring photographer who runs a vlog, Tara feels that she is a failure in life, “slinging French fries” as a waitress and obsessing about her victimhood.
Tara brings up her brother again and the trauma of losing him. Lucas also has experienced loss and relates to Tara. He shares that he used to be a pharmacist and decided to give it up to hike through the woods.
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