{"id":35979,"date":"2024-06-14T06:46:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35979"},"modified":"2024-06-14T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T10:46:19","slug":"under-paris-2024-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35979","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Under Paris&#8221; (2024) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z061424zview_underparis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"889\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Under Paris <\/strong><\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Xavier Gens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Yannick Dahan, Xavier Gens, Maud Heywang, Ya\u00ebl Langmann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Bejo, Nassim Lyes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three years ago Sophia, a marine researcher, barely survived a shark attack that killed everyone else in her group. Now Sophia, still not fully recovered from the attack, works at an aquarium in Paris. She keeps up with the location of the killer shark thanks to a tracking beacon on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the beacon shows the shark has traveled into the Seine River, Sophia can&#8217;t get anyone to believe her.\u00a0 When mutilated bodies begin to appear, it becomes clear that sharks have mutated and are indeed in the river.\u00a0 Despite this, the mayor refuses to cancel a huge event that includes a triathlon in the, you guessed, Seine River.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t anyone learn anything from J<em>aws, Jaws II, Jaws 3-D<\/em> and <em>Jaws: The Revenge<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Under Paris<\/em> suffers from bad cgi, cliched characters and supposedly smart characters who die because of simply stupid choices.\u00a0 The mayor knows there are mutated sharks in the river and still allows hundreds of swimmers to compete there.\u00a0 A &#8220;smart&#8221; woman who has survived several shark attacks and has had her boat destroyed decides to swim towards the shark feeding frenzy.\u00a0 Bombs from World War II are inadvertently detonated by sharks destroying bridge after bridge.\u00a0 And so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I made it through the whole thing so it barely earns a 2 star rating.<\/p>\n<p>After writing this, I saw a Tweet (er, X) from Stephen King which read&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I thought UNDER PARIS would be a jokey movie, like SHARKNADO, but Twitter convinced me to give it a watch, and it&#8217;s really quite good. The last 25 minutes were amazing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, I&#8217;m not one to argue with Stephen King.\u00a0 My opinion stands, as does King&#8217;s.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ll just say, &#8220;Your mileage may vary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Under Paris <\/strong><\/em>(2024), (for me) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z061424zview_underparis2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Paris (2024) Director: Xavier Gens Screenplay: Yannick Dahan, Xavier Gens, Maud Heywang, Ya\u00ebl Langmann Stars: B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Bejo, Nassim Lyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35996,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions\/35996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}