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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyIf The Dive’s final stretch feels a bit less urgent than what precedes it, one appreciates that the filmmakers did not pile on the usual melodramatic gotchas, hewing to a relatively realistic course of events.
- 60The GuardianCath ClarkeThe GuardianCath ClarkeWhat follows is a race against the clock, cleverly constructed by director Maximilian Erlenwein and co-writer Joachim Hedén. Their script throws in plenty of calamities to nobble the diver’s escape, but didn’t quite manage – for me at least – to spark a vertiginous clammy terror.
- 60Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterThe film itself has a commendable logic and credibility, but perhaps lacks a little of the pulse-racing intensity that might have made it a more obviously commercial proposition.
- 50RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe Dive feels routine, a soggy journey from point A to point B that doesn’t do anything interesting enough to make it stand out in the dog days of summer.