Sea Fever

An impressive eco-thriller that could do with more clearly delineated characters

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.

• Rachel Carson; The Sea Around Us (1951)

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It has a promising plot but somehow it lacked substance, especially towards the end of the film. Somehow I was expecting a conclusion to the entire “monster” situation, but then it was left unattended.

Overall, I enjoyed watching the film though. Would I watch it again? No. Would I make my friend...

Ultimately, while it gets a boost of inadvertent timeliness from the COVID-19 climate of pandemic paranoia, face-touching phobia and quarantined cabin fever, 'Sea Fever' is a fairly straightforward, even generic, blue-collar-workers-in-peril thriller.

• Jake Watt

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I thoroughly enjoyed this. It's the first thing I've watched recently that didn't feel like they could (and should) shave an hour off of it. A nice, light watch that had a unique concept and a likable cast. I agree with others that the eye popping scene was about as intense as it got, with everyone ...

Obviously done on a shoestring budget, this is actually quite an interesting little sci-fi/horror mystery. It all centres around the crew of a stranded trawler who come to realise that there is a malevolent beastie that has found it's way into their water supply after their boat strayed into a restr...