Netflix’s The Red Sea Diving Resort Review: Lacks Emotion and Motivation!

Netflix’s new Original film, The Red Sea Diving Resort is based on Operation Brothers’ true-life rescue efforts which involved smuggling Ethiopian Jews by a group of international agents from Sudan to Israel in the early 1980s. With Chris Evans in the lead role, the movie also stars Michael K. Williams, Haley Bennett, Michiel Huisman, Alessandro Nivola and Sir Ben Kingsley as the supporting cast in a two-hour spy thriller.

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Similar to the 2012 Oscar-winning drama, Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, The Red Sea Diving Resort also explores a comparable subject. With the primary plotline being, transporting a group of people from A to point B. However, this film lacks depth and emotion and follows a very customary blueprint to execute the narrative. The way the movie starts and ends is substantially predictable and lacks excitement on any level. The process of introducing the characters, advancing the storyline, involving threats and other government-related issues felt generic for the most part. In addition to this, the main group of supporting characters excluding Chris Evans and Michael K. Williams lacked the motivation of any kind. It felt like there are so randomly included in such a secret and a deadly mission which takes place in a country dominated with bribe, guns and violence.

On the more positive things of things, the performances from the cast are decent enough, for you to not get bored in a two-hour film. It is refreshing to watch Chris Evans in anything other than the Marvel movies. He does a great job portraying the guy leading the pack and the missions with great charisma and confidence. Although his character didn’t have the scope of being memorable, it is delightful to see him move out of his comfort zone and try different things to prolong his career. Regardless of the execution and the drawbacks, the real story and events which inspired the narrative itself were exhilarating and extremely commendable. To learn how a group of people went above and beyond to ensure the safety of the refugees and took paramount risks to complete the missions were inspirational to every extent.

To conclude, The Red Sea Diving Resort lacks excitement, emotion and motivation by and large and is overall an inferior product. However, it is suitable as a Netflix film where you watch with multiple disruptions, and it is also tolerable enough to get through from beginning to the end. Watch it get a very rough understanding of what transpired between Sudan and Israel in the 1980s.

Rating – 2.5/5 | Grade – C+