The Abyss (2024)

I like disaster movies. I like the domesticity of the early scenes with the oblivious residents going about their untroubled lives, thinking today's gonna be like every other day. I enjoy getting to know how these people are when things are fine and then seeing what they become when things go as bad as they can possibly go. 

The trouble here is that the setting -- Kiruna in Sweden -- is a real city that is home to the largest iron ore mine in the world. Because of the instability caused by the mine, the city is planning -- in real life -- to be moved approximately 3 km away. The entire plot of the movie is "but what if it collapses before we've gotten out?" Since they already know it's dangerous enough that they can't stay there, it takes a huge dose of suspended disbelief to get through this. The entire town is caught off-guard and there seem to be no emergency protocols in place. Our hero (Frigga), despite her job as the security manager for the mine, doesn't appear to have taken the time to tell her own messy family what to do when/if shit goes down.

If you like disaster movies, you'll be disappointed. If you don't like disaster movies, but you do enjoy clueless people more focused on their relationship drama than their physical world getting sucked into the earth, this might be your jam.

D+