There’s nothing like having your best friend by your side no matter what. A best friend that will stick with you to the end, on a group trip from hell, is someone to die for. Directed by Jeff Wadlow, Devils Mouth is set on the beautiful shores of Thailand. It takes a sharp turn from tropical vacation with friends to survival of the fittest. Grab a life jacket and make sure you don’t have any open wounds before splashing into this film.
Five friends on a group trip delight in their youth, summer freedom, and all the lavish luxuries their rich friend proudly pays for, as they enjoy their time abroad. Max (Lana Condor), the friend making sure everything happens according to plan, schedules a remote cave diving experience for the group. Despite the jellyfish attack her best friend Sara (Kathryn Newton) survived the day before, and despite the advice of the cave diving experts, Max insists that they all do the most dangerous course of the caves. Sara, Max, Adrienne (Tommi Rose), Greg (Gavin Casalegno), and James (Nico Hiraga) soon find themselves in deep water. They learn not only are the caves where the dead are buried due to a tragic event many years prior, but someone or something has followed them in.
In Amazon’s new shark flick, The Devil’s Mouth, terrible tourists finally get their comeuppance while two estranged best friends must overcome their petty squabbles to survive as the rest of their party gets chomped one by one. While it’s by no means an Oscar winner, The Devil’s Mouth is good old fashioned shark week carnage with a tourist critical twist, perfect with popcorn, a friend, and a healthy does of schadenfreude.
The film centers around Max (Lana Condor) and Sara (Kathryn Newton) as they screw around the various natural wonders of Thailand with their friends Greg (Gavin Casalegno), James (Nico Hiraga) and Adrienne (Tommi Rose). The group often disregards Sara, leaving her to be consoled by Max, even accidentally abandoning her to be swarmed by a group of stinging jellyfish as the group parties on a yacht. Without getting Sara medical attention for the gruesome wounds running up and down her legs, the group decides to continue their tour of Thailand by going on a swimming tour of some underwater caves called The Devil’s Mouth, despite the numerous catastrophic cave exploration incidents of the 2020s.
In the caves, the group laughs and jokes despite their dangerous surroundings and the warnings of their tour guide Wat (Tayme Thapthimthong) to respect the caves. This, of course, they do not do. When Adrienne cuts herself and Wat explains it’s tour policy to return to shore, Max pressures him into continuing the tour. See, pressuring people is kind of part of Max’s personality. Throughout the film, Max pressures Sara to change her career plans and move cross country to be with her, dismissing Sara’s own career goals. However, that quickly becomes a moot point.
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