Deep Water review: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas shine in Adrian Lyne’s thriller

An Adrian Lyne adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith crime novel, starring ex-lovers Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas sounds like a winning combination from the start. Deep Water movie review: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas play a couple in a loveless marriage. The 115-minute thriller, which begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video from March 18, moves at a breakneck speed, has superb performances, and always kept me guessing where it was heading because Lyne and his writers Zach Helm and Sam Levinson do make some significant changes to the source material, which make Deep Water share some beats with Affleck’s previous marriage-gone-wrong movie Gone Girl, but I don’t mind that. Deep Water is a leaner film and doesn’t really dig into the couple’s psychological makeup as deeply as we saw it done in Gone Girl.