source: Dead in the Water

OK, so the story wasn't the best, but the soundtrack was great!! And to the deadgirls' comment...the guy was BRAZILIAN!!!Hence, them being in Brazil. Anyways, apart from everything the scenery and music were both great. Cool to watch on TV.

HUGE SPOILERS I wonder if this is a direct for cable movie. The plot is minimal, the acting is only regular, and it moves slow. Dominique Swain is the best thing about it in my opinion, she's very sexy and delivers a not so bad performance. The three supporting actors just deliver the necessary. The cinematography is pretty good; It's shinny, avid, and works perfect. Unlike movies like "Open Water" this movie doesn't makes you feel dizzy. The movie starts slow and it only gets interesting towards the ending when the characters show their true personality and would do anything in order to stay alive and out of any responsibility. I didn't like the way the main problem is solved; I mean, killing all the characters is not what a viewer expects when a murder is the main situation of the movie. Then the ending really made me angry, how could Marcos survive if he didn't know how to swim and Gloria (an avid swimmer) drowns? The producers didn't take too much time on crafting a decent ending. Anyways, this movie deserves a watch only if you have nothing better to do. I catched it on HBO at 1 am.

"Dead in the Water" is a lousy film. The list of faults is too long to go into here. Suffice it to say it's a low budget dog with a lame story and subpar in almost all respects from screenplay to direction to cinematography to...etc. Don't waste your time with this loser.

This film is so bad, on so many different levels. I do not even know where to begin. Oh! I know! I will start off with a warning. Do Not Watch This Film, unless it is like for me, 3:AM and you're unable to sleep. The acting is not even B movie caliber. But even Olivier would have a hard time squeezing anything good from this insipid script. It really is that bad. I found it impossible to care about any of the characters. The music is painful is as the dialog, if not more so. Plot? Threadbare. Cinematography was sub-par at best. All-in-all a truly dire film. My advice, skip this film and watch an infomercial instead.

1 out of ten is not low enough for how terrible this movie is. To quote Marilyn Manson, "I wasn't born with enough middle fingers" comes to mind. This movie is absolutely, completely, and pathetically terrible. The only thing that could have made it worse would have been that Maggie Grace had been cast as the annoying female. There is nothing good about this movie, whatsoever. Any vote higher than 1/10 I guarantee came from someone that was involved in making this movie, at least a free trip to the location was worth maybe at most 2/10 stars. TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, and VAPID. If someone I knew said they wanted to fund this movie I would ask them to just give me their money to burn without even enjoying the heat from it in a life threatening situation in the arctic. At no point did I care about anything that was happening, any of the characters or plot. The only moment of enjoyment was when it was over. I hated this movie so much I cared enough to write a warning to anyone looking for a movie to watch tonight. Don't make it this one.

This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. The script is the first thing that "died." It appeared that the cast was improvising the dialogue as they went along. Add to that, the award for worst sound editing. What a great combo: bad dialogue that you have to work at to understand! All the characters muddled through the simplistic plot. The real mystery comes when you try to figure out how garbage like this ever got the green light.

Have you ever been to the dentist? If you answered yes to this question and I hope everybody does answer yes, than you have a sneak peek into this movie. The movie drills into the bad acting of very annoying actors and actresses. The director must have had a lot of money to waste on film because this movie is an endless drowl of boring arguments and centers around a tease of a girl. The movie involves four characters who are out at sea-----------------------------the punctuation is because the movie wastes almost every minute out at sea. I have seen great ocean adventures in the big screen this is not one of them. I sound very cynical but I wanted to see this movie like another reviewer mentioned but this movie sucks(lousy) and should be missed at all costs.

This movie didn't look to bad on the cover so I decided to rent it. Oh my god, it's one of the dumbest movies ever made. What were the people thinking when they made this pile of crap? I kept hoping this movie would get better but it got worse by the minute. I was dissapointed with dominique swain. She's a good actress but this movie is her worst.The actors were so annoying, i would shoot them if I was on the boat with them. THat forgein mexican guy or whatever the hell he is, was so freaking ugly and annoying , i would have thrown him in the water myself and left him there, bad movie 0/10

In Rio de Janeiro, Gloria (Dominique Swain) is an ambitious young woman, whose father (José WIlker) is bankrupted. When the son of his business partner, Marcos (Sebastian DeVicente), arrives in Rio, her father asks Gloria to have a trip with him in their boat Boa Vida. Gloria, her boyfriend Danny (Scott Bairstow) and their common friend Jeff (Henry Thomas) get Marcos in his hotel and they go to Angra dos Reis. While in the sea, they drink Caipirinha and beer, and Gloria flirts with the wealthy Marcos. The jealous Danny sees they kissing each other, throws Marcos in the water with a lifebuoy and drives the boat to a distant island to scare Marcos. However, they have a problem with the propellers and when they return to the spot, they do not find Marcos anymore. Afraid of the consequences of his possible drowning, they discuss alibis and how to resolve the situation, shattering their relationship in an environment of high-tension and selfishness. "Dead in the Water" is an amoral tale of ambition, selfishness and greed based on three shallow characters: Gloria is an ambitious and amoral young woman, having the behavior of a * and capable of teasing three young men looking for the best one to support her; Danny is a loser posing of executive but incapable of taking reasonable attitudes or decisions; and Jeff, who stays close to Gloria and Danny not for friendship or loyalty, but because he wants to stay with Gloria. The final twist is very ironical and suitable for this reasonable film. My vote is six. Title (Brazil): "Tensão em Alto-Mar" ("Tension on the High Seas")