Sunken: When 127 Hours Meets Pinocchio (review)

A B series, which works quite well when it sticks to its claustrophobic dimension before ending… swallowed up by a much too hammered metaphor of mourning.

Austin Abrams, in full Hollywood rise since the box office resident Evilplays in Engulfed a grieving son who puts on his diving suit to search for his father’s remains (Josh Brolin), an old sea dog having committed suicide a year earlier by throwing himself into the depths of the ocean. But our hero is swallowed along the way by a sperm whale, and will spend the rest of the film trying to extract himself from the animal’s bowels, snaking painfully through disgusting cavities, confronting other creatures swallowed by the gigantic mammal…