Affleck’s performance is somewhere between the feigned Wife Guy energy of Gone Girl and the smirking duplicity of The Last Thing He Wanted, and nearly everything about his Vic is inscrutable.īut when Vic is in the garage of his palatial New Orleans home, amid the misting system and stacked aquarium tanks that hold his thousands of snails, Affleck plays the man as thoughtful and serene. He jokes about killing people, then he does start killing people. He’s angry at his wife for perpetually cheating on him, but then he’s also somewhat aroused by it. A computer-programming genius who is “rich as fuck” from developing a chip that helps military drones better find and kill their targets, Vic thrives in what the suspicious Don calls a “moral gray area.” He’s shruggingly blasé about the real-world effects of his invention. To be fair, Vic’s entire arc is a bit off.

We know this because his wife, Melinda ( Ana de Armas), tells him he’s weird, and because his new neighbor, Don ( Tracy Letts), also tells him he’s weird, and because Vic’s behavior is, frankly, weird! This man breeds snails as a hobby - the only thing that genuinely seems to make him happy - and I think I speak for all of us when I ask: What’s up with that? In Deep Water, the Patricia Highsmith adaptation from iconic erotic-thriller director Adrian Lyne and screenwriters Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, Ben Affleck’s Vic is a weird guy. Reps for New Regency, Amazon and Disney were unable to be reached.Spoilers follow for the film Deep Water, streaming on Hulu as of March 18. The production company, originally housed at 20th Century Fox, segued over to Disney after the 2019 merger of the rival studio. Today, New Regency hammered a new global theatrical distribution deal with Disney. Tracy Letts, Rachel Blanchard, Dash Mihok, Lil Rel Howery, Jacob Elordi, Kristen Connolly and Jade Fernandez also star. Zach Helm and Sam Levinson adapted the book. The couple staves off divorce in a loveless marriage by allowing each to take lovers, but it becomes messy as Highsmith exposed the surface façade of American suburban life. Meanwhile, fanboy fare is king with Sony/Disney/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home eyeing a $135M-$155M opening weekend.Īffleck and de Armas star as Vic and Melinda Van Allen, a married couple whose mind games with each other take a twisted turn when people around them start turning up dead. To date, and boosted by the Thanksgiving holiday, MGM/UAR’s star-studded House of Gucci is the only drama to break through with a current running domestic B.O. We also hear that Deep Water is being sent to streaming given the feeble theatrical marketplace for adult fare right now Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story being the latest to underperform with a $10.5M opening.

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