Film: Under Paris (Sous la Seine)
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Léa Léviant
Director: Xavier Gens
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 101 min

Imagine a shark infested river… ‘Under Paris’ wants you to believe in that flimsy, improbable premise. Director Xavier Gens credited for the screenplay alongside Yannick Dahan and Maud Heywang, which in turn originates from a blueprint by Yaël Langmann and Olivier Torres, who themselves have adapted the idea by Edouard Duprey and Sébastien Auscher, make a mess of it all. Did not think it would take so many ideas, originators and writers to make something so unexciting and forgettable.

The opening sequence has an entire research group being terrorised and gobbled up by a shark. Sophia (Bérénice Bejo) the brilliant marine scientist’s husband was one of the victims of that opening shark attack.