‘Underwater’ Review: Kristen Stewart Anchors a Shallow but Satisfying Creature Feature

, William Eubank’s “Underwater” is a film out of its time.

For one thing, it was shot almost three years ago, back when bonafide disaster artist T.J.

Miller was still vaguely cast-able (i.e.

before he became so toxic that Mucinex fired him as the company’s spokes-snot).

For another, it’s an expensive, original, multiplex-ready B-movie in an era when virtually anything with an $80 million budget has to be about superheroes or new subscribers.

In fact, the project’s anachronistic nature is so pronounced that even its profoundly screwed characters can sense it bubbling up around them.“Underwater” is gasping for air from the moment it starts.

Set almost seven miles below the ocean surface aboard a deep-sea drilling complex that’s exclusively populated by hot millennials, the movie dives right into the abyss with nary a hint of set-up.

At its center is Norah (Kristen Stewart), a mechanic

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