The Deep (Djúpið) (2012)

A good movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this movie but I was really curious to see Baltasar Kormákur directing a movie in Island so I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I actually didn’t  know anything about this flick before watching the damned thing but it turned out to be a rather incredible true story about an Icelandic fisherman who had to swim in the ice cold Atlantic ocean for about 6 hours after his ship sank. Seriously, what this guy did was just pretty insane and I have to give some credits to Ólafur Darri Ólafsson who gave here a really solid performance (seriously, it must have been hell for this guy to shoot all these scenes in the icy water). The directing by Kormákur was also solid but, in my opinion, in the 2nd half, he did st” read more