Billed as director Adrian Lyne's return to the erotic thriller genre, Deep Water falls short on both genre counts, with its luridly silly twists and unconvincing scenarios. The consideration of boundaries in relationships is clumsy and uncomfortably portrayed, especially when the lead female character is objectified sexually at every opportunity. Ana de Armas plays the free-spirited wife, proving to be an engaging actress with interesting attention to detail in her performance, juxtaposed with Ben Affleck as her seemingly closed-off and tolerant husband played in a more understated and workmanlike manner. Lyne's style here echoes his Fatal Attraction at times, reflecting the couple's slick, glossy and monied milieu. Ultimately, however, it is hard to buy into this couple staying together at all, making it a struggle to buy into and care about their life for even the first act, let alone the whole film.
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