There is good junk and bad junk, and Deep Water — while assuredly junk — is the fun kind.

If done right, a disaster movie can scratch a cinematic itch like nothing else, serving up sentimentality, suspense and schadenfreude in tidy parcels of action.

The human drama element between the passengers provides just enough context to carry this light and predictable but garish and bloody popcorn adventure.

It offers plenty of suspense and tension, as well as a particularly horrifying plane crash scene. It's good old-fashioned B-movie cinema; nothing more, nothing less. [Full review in Spanish].