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The Deep End is melodrama, and that might be all you need to know in order
to decide not to see it. But it's a pretty good movie; only a couple of the
necessary plot twists are too clunky, and the gradual building of, not
suspense exactly but interest in what might happen next works well.
Ultimately, though, what you've got is Tilda Swinton. Swinton's been in a
lot of weird movies, like Orlando where her character lived 400 years and
changed genders every so often, and Female Perversions, based on a
non-fiction book of feminist theory, where Swinton had hot sex with Karen
Sillas that was a match for what you see in Mulholland Drive. The Deep End
isn't weird, but by now when we see Swinton we assume weird; between the
baggage she brings from her earlier movies and her oft-noted skin tones,
she's like a high-end European version of Rose McGowan (if McGowan were
about 8 inches taller). Swinton is the main reason to see this movie; ok,
Swinton and that Croatian hunk from ER..

Contains Spoilers!!!
The short version: Poorly written, poorly performed.

I would like to say this movie is horrible. But it's not the kind of
horrible where you get up thinking "well, they tried really hard to write a
good script, just too ambitious." It's the kind of horrible where you think
"man, they really weren't trying."

Tilda Swinton is poorly cast and not convincing at all as the mother. The
film seems to need to overstate things to the audience, such as when
Swinton
disposes of the body in broad daylight, the screenplay felt the need to
show
a helicopter-shot panoramic view of the area, to quell the "yeah, right,
like she could do that in broad daylight" feelings you're having. The film
also insults your intelligence in other ways, such as dressing Swinton in
black and handing her a cigarette in the scene where you find out her
sinister intentions. The story is decent, but it seems like the cinematic
devices used in the screenplay are straight out of the
1930's.

The characters in the film behave in excessively stupid ways. For example,
why did she wait until the morning to dispose of the body? Why did she not
question her son about the incident before disturbing the crime scene?
Police are a non-factor, in fact no authority speaks to a member of the
cast
until 3/4 of the way through, when the sheriff's officer asks Swinton about
the anchor. She says their boat doesn't have an anchor, and he simply
accepts it and the police never enter the plot again; apparently not having
looked around the houses at the lake at all to discover the broken board,
as
well as the blood the body would have certainly left in the boat.

Earlier in the film, after Swinton drives the dead man's Corvette to
another
location, (how did the keyless entry still work after the car keys had been
submerged for some length of time?), she wipes the steering wheel 'clean'
of
her prints - neglecting other obvious places like the door handle, the
shifter, the radio buttons which she adjusts, and other things she would
have certainly touched on the interior of the vehicle.

These are just a few examples; there aren't really any gaping holes in the
plot, just a small number of examples where the characters behaved in
excessively careless or irrational ways, but frequently enough to interrupt
your acceptance of the rest of the plot. The story itself is not awful, the
acting is serviceable but not at all above average, but the script sank
this
one from the beginning..