The Pool (III) (2018)
7/10
Ok But Not Flawless
27 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
A man finds himself trapped in a drained swimming pool with a crocodile.

The plot of this is simple since it is a survival flick. It's decent but not without plenty of flaws that could be used pick it to death if one wanted to. If you are reading this just to decide whether you want to watch it, I say give it a go. It isn't epic but once again, it is decent. I'm gonna add a few spoilers past this point so if you don't want to get into them, stop reading it now and check the movie out for yourself

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The things that sorta flawed the movie are just small details that one could easily pick up on.

Let's start with the pizza delivery guy. It just felt a bit strange to see this fella walk into this pool area, find a dog but not really look the place over well. It was also strange that when Day noticed the fella, he is hooked to the drain by what looked like a wallet chain, acted like he was struggling to free himself but we could see the could easily see the hooking clasp. It was also a strange that we never saw the chain again.

Next we can talk about Koy not realizing that the level of pool water was really low before she started to jump in.

Moving on, the duct tape. This was probably what irritated me the most. The whole time I was watching this I was hollering "TAPE THE CROCS MOUTH!!"

When Day initially goes into the drain, he has to rush back up to insure that the croc doesn't hurt Koy but he never went back down to check the other end of the drainage system. Even though it only lead to another pool, it seemed like one would've check it out sooner. It also made me ask, just where the hell did all that water drain to? That was something that was never explained.

When Day went up to see the flying toy (not sure if it was a toy or some or some sort of drone or what exactly), why didn't he hop out there and try to knock it down. That would've been a way to have a least had someone come searching for it.

Those were my biggest issues with this but I decided to just take it at face value and sorta pushed those things off to the side. Maybe Day wasn't thinking clearly due to the heat or his lack of insulin. I thought it was a good effort and ended up liking it in the long run.
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