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Action, Thriller, Horror, Crime • 2026 • 96 min

A group of friends on a diving vacation off Mexico stumble into cartel trouble and find themselves hunted by both armed criminals and open water itself. Antonio Banderas leads a cast in what director Jesse V. Johnson frames as a straightforward action-horror survival picture. The Neutral label fits because the film carries no meaningful political or identity freight. Cartel villains are simply villains, the survival stakes are physical rather than ideological, and the story follows genre conventions without reinterpreting them through any cultural lens. With no religious, LGBTQ, or family-structure themes in play, the rating reflects a movie built around tension and danger rather than any particular worldview.
Ramiro Alonso • Antonio Banderas • Ryan Bertroche
A group of friends on a diving vacation off Mexico stumble into cartel trouble and find themselves hunted by both armed criminals and open water itself. Antonio Banderas leads a cast in what director Jesse V. Johnson frames as a straightforward action-horror survival picture. The Neutral label fits because the film carries no meaningful political or identity freight. Cartel villains are simply villains, the survival stakes are physical rather than ideological, and the story follows genre conventions without reinterpreting them through any cultural lens. With no religious, LGBTQ, or family-structure themes in play, the rating reflects a movie built around tension and danger rather than any particular worldview.
Ramiro Alonso • Antonio Banderas • Ryan Bertroche
A group of friends on a Mexican diving trip discover cartel drugs and must fight armed criminals and great white sharks to survive, framing the cartel as unambiguous villains in a straightforward action-horror setup.
Above & Below centers on a group of friends whose Mexican vacation turns deadly amid shark attacks and criminal threats, led by a cast that includes established Latino performers such as Antonio Banderas. The narrative follows standard thriller conventions without engaging identity-based themes or reinterpreting traditional character archetypes.
Above & Below centers on friends whose ocean vacation descends into attacks and survival, without depicting marriage, parenting, or any family structures.
Above & Below contains no LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The story follows a group of friends whose vacation at sea turns violent after a criminal attack, unfolding as a straightforward shark thriller without any queer representation or related narrative elements.
Above & Below centers on friends whose diving vacation turns into a fight for survival after a criminal attack at sea, with no transgender characters or themes present in the story.
In Above & Below, Tatiana and Kaley navigate survival against armed criminals and sharks after an ambush at sea. Their efforts center on evasion and endurance rather than victories in close-quarters physical combat against male opponents.
Above & Below presents an original story with newly created characters and no established figures from prior works or historical records reimagined with altered genders.
Above & Below is an original thriller with newly created characters and no source material establishing prior racial depictions for any roles. The cast portrays figures without canonical racial baselines from books, comics, prior films, or historical records.
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