Under Paris (2024) — REVIEW

Sharks in the Waters of Paris

Under Paris aka Beneath Paris is a 2024 sci-fi horror thriller only on Netflix, which depicts three female marine biologists and Paris police officials up against a new species of shark adapting to fresh waters and vastly threatening a triathlon. It is JAWS and Shark Night combined with Meg (1975, 2011, 2018, 2023). Distributed by Netflix, the film is directed by Xavier Gen, and it mainly stars Benenise Bijo, Anais Parelo, Lia Leviant, and Nagisa Morimoto. The prime positive messages shown in the film are teamwork, heroism, determined valor, and the need to morally do what is right for both sharks and humans. Sofia (Bijo) is the prime positive role model of the movie because three years after her marine biologist team was destroyed by a giant shark at sea, she returns to her life’s work when the shark is somehow breeding in the fresh waters of Paris.

The diverse equalities shown in the film include an LGBTQ couple, as well as male/female French/American/ebony/white characters, played by ebony and white male and female actors (mostly French/Brit). The violence and scariness depicted in the movie include a group being ravaged by a giant shark, multiple shark offspring of a new species savage a triathlon and its competing contestants, massively destructive floods upon Paris, people drowning, being arrested slightly without forceful incident, but for the wrong reasons, blooded dismemberment, some arguments, and the use of gunfire and beyond. A female character is knocked out cold and drowns.

The only gender content exposed in the film is a female LGBTQ couple briefly making out. Some gender-based vulgar gestures are present, like one use of the middle finger. The language used in the film is the F-bomb, the S-word, etc. Not much smoking, doping, and drinking content is present in the movie. For these reasons, I highly recommend “Under Paris” to age groups from late teens to adults, even those who are fascinated with sharks.