A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world’s deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands. The idea of the film was clearly developed by throwing the scripts of The Thing, DOOM, Resident Evil films, and the visual style of the Resident Evil VII game into a randomizer and then used to re-build the story of Underwater (2020). The Superdeep 2020 full
The premise is very simple, but there is no story to build up onto it. This film packs quite a run-time, but absolutely nothing of interest happens. There is no sense of pacing or progression since we are never made aware of the clear goal the team is trying to pursue (opposing to what they literally did in the first RE film).
The film starts with a randomly disconnected flashback that is supposed to establish our main lead as an unethical scientist. This comes back (again, randomly) several times in the film and is not directly connected to anything else. I suspect that this was supposed to indicate that in the ending she reassessed her beliefs, but you can’t be 100% sure about anything in the film.
They seemed to have an interesting location that was never made good use of. We can see some cool shots of the exteriors but shots with the ‘actors’ are clearly just bad green screen. Also, the whole Russian late 80ties setting is never made good use of besides one guy having a relevant hairstyle. The lab looks as generic as possible, and even though the film doesn’t look low-budget, they clearly did not use the money in a good way.
It is not trivial to understand what is supposed to be going on, but after around 1 hour of the film, one might start to suspect that the team has a mission to get inside the lab, get some samples of the evil fungus, and evacuate. The editing is all over the place, so we get lots of long unnecessary scenes while the required establishing ones are missing.