“Into the Deep?” Well, “Jaws” it’s not. Entirely too shallow for “The Deep,” too.

But Richard Dreyfuss is in it, the “Jaws” alumnus who’s lived to play the sage of the sea role in this B-almost-C picture about gun smugglers, drug trade pirates, treasure hunting and sharks.

“Into the Deep” is a geographically inept thriller set on the waters around the French island of Réunion when we can plainly see the road and business signs and craggy peaks and cliffs of seaside Thailand, the drugs in question were just stolen from Indonesia and the extras are Southeast Asian when Réunion is a LOT closer to Madagasacar than Singapore.

Cassidy (Scout Taylor-Thompson) grew up as the granddaughter of a famed oceanographer (Dreyfuss). But she saw her father killed by a shark when she was a child (the opening scene), a trauma worsened by how close the beast came to getting her. It’s taken decades of granddad’s lectures about “You’re a visitor in THEIR kingdom,” “BE the predator” lectures to get her over that.

Now she and husband Gregg (Callum McGowan) have been lured back to “those same waters” where Dad died to dive on a wreck with historical significance and “treasure” aboard. Their pal “Benz” (Stuart Townsend) is aiming to salvage the treasure, perhaps in a way that the local government and nautical historians will approve. But maybe not.

Handily, Benz keeps a shark cage on board his barge. Naturally Cassidy is triggered by that.

And then, sure enough, a shark attacks them and another couple mid-dive. Perhaps that tricked-out motorized catamaran in the distance can be of some help? Fat chance, as we’ve already heard Jordan (Jon Seda) order his fellow mercenaries to “light’em up” when they encountered gun runners in another boat.

Jordan and his minions are here to haul up sunken drugs. It doesn’t take long for him and his roid raging, armed-to-the-teeth thugs to show their true colors.

We just know Cassidy will get pressed into service doing that deadly dive for them. Luckily, she remembers Grandpa Seamus’s (Dreyfuss) Rules of the Sea.

“When you breathe you give yourself power…Figure out, ‘What are the things that can kill me?'”

These waters just seem too warm for the cold water loving great whites that are menacing one and all. Grandpa knew better.

“A great white goes wherever it WANTS to go.”

Dreyfuss lends a little sparkle to what is otherwise a dully predicatable affair. Even the performances pitched to be appropriate reactions to shark terror, losing loved ones or friends, feel low energy.

Perhaps if the gun smugglers’ mates were hunting Jordan & Co. for revenge that would have added the ticking clock suspense this shallow dive thriller sorely needed. But probably not.

Rating: R, bloody violence — guns and sharks — and profanity

Cast: Scout Taylor-Thompson, Callum McGowan, Jon Seda, Stuart Townsend and Richard Dreyfuss.

Credits: Directed by Christan Sesma, scripted by Chad Law and Josh Ridgway. A Saban release.

Running time: 1:29