I'll start this off by saying that I'm a Divemaster.

I have dived the Salem Express twice now, and it's a very easy tourist dive, lying on its side (not on it's keel like in the movie), in always warm, relatively shallow clear water. Any diver would be thrilled to see a shark around the wreck, and larger sharks in the northern Red Sea are virtually unheard of.

If you dive, you might derive entertainment from the absolutely ludicrous diving practices and inaccurate technical references. It makes "47 Meters Down" look like a tech divers manual in comparison. It's so bad, it's good, me and my diver girlfriend were in stitches.

The acting is lamentable, with the air of a hammy low-budget sitcom and scripts that have only had a single cursory read-through.

However, what does come through is a reflection of the myriad social issues that are facing young adults trying to find freedom in many theocratical and conservative middle-eastern and north african societies.

While all- Egyptian, the principally young cast are desparately trying to portray themselves as highly westernised, wealthy, secular and progressive hipsters. Not accurate for much of Egypt in my experience.

The more capable and senior female characters have the unenviable task of trying to manage suffocatingly arrogant, selfish and incompetent Egyptian manchildren, who are historically used to being in charge regardless of their actual abilities, the only truly accurate depiction of Egypt in this movie.

A word of caution if you choose to watch this movie, prepare to be bored for about 44 minutes ... and then confused for the remainder of the experience. For a movie called Mako, I would guestimate that sharks have less than 3 minutes of total screen time. The plot also becomes increasingly difficult to follow once the film crew goes underwater: first, the characters are nearly unidentifiable with their scuba gears, and second, actual events are interspersed with scenes that represent hallucinations induced by depth narcosis. On the plus side though, the underwater cinematography is fairly impressive, all things considered.

I do love a shark film. It's my go-to genre. This one caught my interest thanks to the use of makos, instead of great whites. Something I enjoyed with Deep Blue Sea too.

However, this film was rather confusing in the ways it was pieced together. It was jumbled and rather poorly edited. I mean no disrespect, but come on. You have to admit, this was pretty iffy for a shark movie.

As stated, the film is very broken up and it's hard to keep up with the story. I swear that a character died twice, being eaten first and then showing up again later, only to be eaten again.

Plus the ending needs fixing. It was like someone grab some puzzle pieces and shoved them into the wrong spots. This film has the potential to be a really good B+ grade movie, but it needs to be pieced properly.

That's really about it.

Watch it if you want.

It's your call.