The idea of No Way Up could have been an idea for a hit movie of the year. Unfortunately, it fell short of my already low expectations.
No Way Up was not produced to be a hit movie. Its low production quality and mediocre cast made for a laughably bad and cringy movie. It was cheap, boring, and was not able to achieve the level of quality production that is required to make an even slightly good movie.
Many scenes didn’t make sense. They were time killers to help make No Way Up longer, and it was quite obvious. The scenes and their dialogue were completely irrelevant to what was happening in the movie and undoubtedly were to lengthen the movie to be an hour and a half long. There was a point where the movie was becoming irritatingly repetitive. The characters kept planning to do something, and something else would go wrong and set them back. Those setbacks were extremely predictable and were very stereotypical of any shark-related movie.
The casting was an unfortunate disaster. Many scenes were awkward, and any interactions that needed to be heartfelt or emotional seemed incredibly forced and not natural. Having a good cast not only involves having actors and actresses who are actually good at acting but also having a cast that seems to have chemistry and is able to interact with each other without seeming awkward. This cast was unable to achieve the level of chemistry and excellence that is needed to make a movie. The cast of No Way Up made me cringe.
The cast that I despise so much consists of Sophie McIntosh (Ava), Jeremias Amoore (Jed), Will Attenborough (Kyle), Colm Meaney (Brandon), Phyllis Logan (Mardy “Nana”), and Grace Nettle (Rosa). There was absolutely no chemistry between the actors, which caused any friendships, relationships, and families to seem ingenuine and so incredibly fake. The actors’ jobs were to create relationships between characters to make the movie seem real, but they ultimately failed at doing so.
Many aspects of the movie were cliché. Cringy lines and overused ideas were the entire makeup with No Way Up. Every idea that I saw in this movie, I have seen in many other movies. A character trying to be the big, tough hero and then miserably failing, characters explaining some deep story about how their mom is dead and how it relates to their situation even though they have no similarities, and predictable setbacks or deaths. All those ideas become boring and overused, causing me to be impatiently waiting for the movie to end, so I can move on with my life.
The visuals of No Way Up weren’t any better than any other aspect of the movie. They were mostly unconvincing, and the only parts that looked decent were the inside of the plane and the inside of the airport, both of which would have been extremely simple sets to create. On the other hand, the CGI of the plane, ocean, and sharks was unrealistic and even made somewhat serious situations laughable due to how bad the scenes looked.
No Way Up was a disappointing, waste-of-time, poorly produced movie that I would not recommend to anyone. Nearly every aspect of this movie bothered me in some way; whether it was because of the acting or storyline, everything made me look forward to the end of the movie. Finishing watching it was quite a task; I had to take a break halfway through because I couldn’t take the cringyness and how poor the quality of No Way Up was.
