I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Whatever happens in this world where everything goes or has to go fast and more and more digital, Terence Davies remains the same director with his slow pacing style which I like so much.Everything in this movie works excellent: the first ten minutes with the magnificent music of the Violin Concerto of Samuel Barber brings you immediately in the right mood of the movie. Also later on in the movie the strong and beautiful voice of Jo Stafford with her most famous song You belong to Me turns you back in the fifties.But for me the strongest scene of the movie is the long tracking shot in the underground Railway: with one long movement of the camera Davies brings alive the sphere of the city during the world war. I do like the scene where everyone sings in the bar also a lot.Rachel Weisz, in my opinion one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the last 10 years (The Constant Gardener, Agora, Youth, ...), is in this movie at her very best. With one blink of her sad eyes you can feel her broken heart. Tim Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale are also superb.I can only recommend this movie to everyone. I have seen this movie already four time (even twice at the cinema...).Thank You, Terence Davies, for giving us from time to time movies of this quiet caliber.The Deep Blue sea is still the best movie that I have seen in the last 5 years (2011-2016) at the cinema. THe movie should at least have a rating of 8,3 instead of 6,3.

This movie is set in the 1950 and I am thinking of today in 2014. Hester is in a loveless, Mommy Dearest for a mother-in-law marriage. So she meets fun Freddie and have a great time. She spoils the great time by falling in love with Freddie. She truly believes that Freddie can rescue her from dull super rich hubby (who still loves her).After finding out the REAL Freddie, why not leave him? She could ask her hubby for money (which I am sure he would give her) and start a new life. Move out of that depressing street to another brighter area. What does trying to commit suicide proves? Did she think it will make people "Sorry" for her? Even her friends, avoid her. Hester is clearly in a type of depression. She stop having fun. Smokes a lot (which does not solve anything).Many reviewers say that Freddie did the wrong thing by leaving her. He's not married to her, so he did the right thing. If I was Freddie I would have run too. As for Freddie, lots of service men now has face "I am back from the war, what do I do now?" I guess they did not have any after war job training like we do now.Notice at the end, Hester lights the gas heater (this is the opposite at the beginning of the movie) and opens the drapes to look at a brighter morning.

Not to be confused with the shark thriller with Saffron Burrows, Ice Cube and Samuel L. Jackson, I know this was a British made film, and the leading actress in it, but I didn't know anything about the plot or concept, so I was looking forward to it. Basically, set in around the 1950's, Hester Collyer (Golden Globe nominated Rachel Weisz) is a young woman married to the older High Court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale), and is having a passionate affair with handsome young former RAP pilot Freddie Page (Thor's Tom Hiddleston) who is still haunted by memories of the war, and he almost feels no fear and excitement in life anymore. Most of the story takes place in the space of one day, when in her flat Hester attempts to commit suicide, she fails to do so and recovers, both the affectionate but no-sexual affair and the constrained but comfortable marriage are played out together through flashbacks. Her affair is discovered, and leaves her regular life of relative luxury for a dingy life in a small London flat with her lover, he has awakened her sexually, but despite his thrill-seeking ways he cannot give her the same love and stability as her husband, but she cannot return to a life with passion, so there is a lot of dilemma. Also starring EastEnders' Ann Mitchell as Mrs. Elton, Jolyon Coy as Philip Welch, Karl Johnson as Mr. Miller, Harry Hadden-Paton as Jackie Jackson and Sarah Kants as Liz Jackson. Firsty, the title is derived from the lead female character's dilemma of being caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea – two equally undesirable situations, I think I know what that means, going with your conscience or going with your heart. Reisz gives a good performance as the woman caught between choosing her acceptable home life or having a bit more excitement with a new man, Hiddleston is also good as the man she embarks on an affair with, the story is relatively simple, based on a stage play, full of strain and heartrending material, it is well acted and produced, and certainly keeps you wondering where is is going, a terrific drama. Very good!

"The Deep Blue Sea" is a tale of adultery from almost the same provenance and time period as the classic "Brief Encounter" by David Lean. In fact, "Sea" is almost what "Encounter" might have been had it been drained of much of its romance, joy and passion. For while, in spite of their obvious misgivings, the couple in "Encounter" clearly enjoyed being in one another's company, the same can not necessarily be said of the lovers here, who seem to share very few moments of genuine joy and happiness throughout the course of their relationship.The 1952 Terrance Rattigan play focuses on Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), the young, attractive wife of an elderly judge (Simon Russell Beale) who falls in love with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), an ex-RAF pilot, in post-WW II London. In a bold move for the time, Hester leaves her husband and moves into a flat with Freddie, but we know immediately that things are not going well, for, as the movie opens, we find Hester attempting suicide, with much of the rest of the story exploring, through a combination of contemporary and flashback scenes, how she's reached this low point of desperation.One of the key elements of the Rattigan play is that it is scrupulously fair to all its characters. The author has no interest in casting stones at any of the people involved in the situation, for each is shown to be a fully-realized human being, with all the virtues and flaws that come along with that status. The emotions and relationships remain multi- layered, ambiguous and complex, and writer/director Terence Davies' spare, almost claustrophobic style perfectly captures the airless, dimly lit world these characters inhabit - something akin to a tableau vivant depiction of frustration and unhappiness.As the woman caught between natural lust, a desire for freedom, and the stiff-upper-lipped propriety of the society around her, Rachel Weiscz delivers a thoughtful, moving performance, and she is matched every step of the way by a superb supporting cast. Despite the often drastic changes in social mores that have occurred since the time of the story, "The Deep Blue Sea," with its keen insights into the nature of the human heart, remains universal and relevant to today.