Deep Rising
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Actor: Anthony Heald, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Treat Williams, Wes StudiBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-10-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product features:
- A band of ruthless hijackers seize the most luxurious cruise in the world only to find that all the passengers have mysteriously disappeared, but they are not alone. Something is lurking behind every deck and passageway, snatching the intruders one by one! System Requirements: Starring: Jason Flemying, Anthony Heald, Djimon Hounsou, Famke Janssen, Derrick O Connor, Kevin J. O Connor, Wes Studi
Movie Reviews of Deep Rising
Movie Review: This is a good prequel...but to what???
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good movie...entertaining and scary. Its Night and raining...
1. The ocean liner (ARGONAUTICA) created for the pleasurable pursuits, primarily gambling is the target of a South China Sea heist.
2. The "hero" Treat Williams (John Finnegan) charters his boat (an old WWII PT boat) and crew of two (his sidekick mechanic Kevin J. O'Connor as Joey and his sidekick's co-pilot girlfriend Leila), to a group of mercenaries with "no questions asked".
3. The Ocean liner is attacked (losing a small speed boat with the impact) by something that has forcibly stopped and penetrated the vessel. "It" remains unseen as it wreaks havoc and panic...and blood.
4. The charter plan (to rob the ocean liner) is revealed to Treat and his crew as the Mercs bring the PT boat up to war specs with the installation of new torpedo tubes secretly brought aboard in crates.
5. Confrontation between Treat and the Mercs in defense of his crew reveals the cool comic hero status of Treat and his sidekick mechanic.
6. State-of-the-art weaponry (newly designed Chinese-made high-powered mini-gatling guns with 100 round magazines) is distributed among the mercs. (Oh boy! This is gonna be good).
7. Treat's crew is disarmed and intimidated into complicity.
8. The PT Boat runs over the speed boat that fell off the ocean liner and is damaged. Repair is mandated as the adrift ocean liner is spotted.
9. Treat's mechanic can repair the damaged parts of his boat in the ocean liner's machine shop, hence their reason to board the ship with the mercs (unarmed of course!).
10. Hands-up, this is a robbery...hey, where is everyone? What happened here?
11. Let the body count begin...
12. Is anyone here? Are you behind...this hatch!...or this hatch!...or this...arrrggghhh...slurp! Slurp again.
This DVD is a must have. Picture quality is phenomenal. This is surely a candidate for the superbit treatment. You need every "bit" to view the slimy, bloody "it", which is scary and creepy as hell. Those who read this as "B" horror movie should remember that "B" movies are a genre and not a rating. This DVD is an "A".
The character Treat Williams plays (John Finnegan) is colorful, cool and badass enough as to make any plot secondary (just bring on the action and tongue-in-cheek remarks). His mechanic sidekick Kevin J. O'Connor (Joey) plays-off his sardonic remarks with an almost psychotic but sensitive and fearful whine (read - same as his character in The Mummy). Famke Janssen (Trillian) could...well...just stand there, roll her eyes and suck in those dimples and be effective at just about anything. The characters are what remain at the end of the story, a funtioning team that can survive the unsurvivable with controlled fear, coolness and humor. And, before end-credits, they are obviously stranded on a large unchartered island in the midst of another horrific story-arc, so where's the sequel???..."Oh hell, what now!"
Summary of Deep Rising
Buckle up for edge-of-your seat excitement with the explosive hit DEEP RISING, an unstoppable high seas action thriller that moves at full scream ahead! When a band of ruthless hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship, they're shocked to discover the passengers have mysteriously vanished! But that doesn't mean they are alone! Something terrifying is lurking just out of sight: a deadly force from the unexplored depths of the ocean that begins to snatch the horrified intruders one by one! Treat Willliams (THE DEVIL'S OWN) and sexy Famke Janssen (GOLDENEYE, ROUNDERS) lead a group of survivors who must overcome incredible odds in their breathtaking battle to escape the doomed ship alive!Following in the reptilian slime trail of Anaconda, this derivative monster movie from early 1998 plays like a cross between Titanic and Tremors, with parts of Aliens tossed in for good measure. Director Stephen Sommers couldn't recognize an original idea if it swallowed him whole--which, by the way, is exactly what happens to a lot of passengers on a luxury ship that is attacked by a giant serpent-like sea creature with a voracious appetite for human flesh. Treat Williams plays the leader of a mercenary crew whose members discover the ravaged ship and wage war on the creature; Famke Janssen joins him as an onboard thief and con artist who just happens to be highly skilled with automatic weapons. Of course, the action grows more intense as the body count rises and along the way the monster is gradually revealed in all of its gruesome glory. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Deep Rising arrived in theaters shortly after another waterlogged thriller, Hard Rain, and if nothing else it provides proof that the B-movie monsters of the 1950s are alive and well and as cheesy as ever in the age of digital special effects. --Jeff Shannon
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