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Movie Reviews of Deep Rising
Movie Review: Don't be afraid...
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't be afraid to admit that you like this movie. Deep Rising is a terrific monster flick that delivers all that can be expected of a film of this type. You get thrills, chills, kills and more than a few laughs. The computer generated creature from the depths, is an ugly and vicious man-eater, that manifests itself in several different forms throughout the film. A twisting shiny gray mass, with numerous slimy looking tentacles, capable of great speed. This terror from the deep devours its victims with zest. All in all, a very cool looking monster, and a formidable opponent.The human cast is not bad either. Treat Williams as "Finnegan" is a steady, likeable leading man, delivering some incredibly silly lines with an engaging smirk on his face. Pickpocket Famke Janssen, is dynamite in a red dress, and handles a gun like a pro. Comic relief is provided by Kevin J. O'Connor as "Joey", a character you will either love or hate. Anthony Heald as "Canton" the pompous ships owner, provides the "weasel factor". The hard-boiled mercenary group, led by "Hanover"(Wes Studi), ably performs their most critical function, that of being bloody fodder for the monster.
The plot enfolds in time tested fashion. Finnegan is hired to take a group of mercenaries to an unknown location at sea. They rendezvous with the "Argonautica" a disabled cruise ship, expecting to find it filled with passengers, only to discover just a handful of survivors. A mysterious creature is apparently loose on board. As the survivors continue to investigate the crippled ship, the monster makes its presence felt, and the fun begins. The body count continues to rise, and blood flows freely, up until the film's climax, where the monster pursues a jet ski through the ship's corridors. Wild mindless fun.
Writer and director Steven Sommers took the experiences gained from his first "creature feature", and put them to good use in his next films, the more commercially successful "The Mummy", "The Mummy Returns" and the yet to be released "Scorpion King".
Deep Rising is a great choice for pure escapist enjoyment. Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack also adds considerably to the atmosphere and excitement. The DVD features just the movie and the trailer, and is perhaps a good candidate for the "Special Edition" treatment common these days, especially as this film has been overshadowed by Sommers latter efforts.
Movie Review: Up to your ears in deep fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
To me Deep Rising reminds me of films such as The Mummy, with everything under water crossed with Jurassic Park style creature chasing its lunch, I mean the ship crew around. I have watched it a few times all ready and this is the kind of a movie that only gets better with every viewing.
What is great about Deep Rising is the consistency with strong deliverance of plot and action. There are no dull moments and people die in some surprising deaths and you really don't know who is going to make it, since no one looks safe. I mean how many movies start of with a whole cruise ship crew vanishing in the middle of the ocean?
Yes this movie is a few years old and the special creature effects are computer generated in most parts but it was really a blast to watch and to laugh at some clever jokes.
Treat Williams looks like a space commander in his ship playing the small boat captain, John Finnegan with goofy sidekick Kevin J. O'Connor as Joey "Tooch' Pantucci (who also appeared in The Mummy - you just cant miss his squeaky voice) on board with fabulous Famke Janssen who plays a jewel thief along with some darkly clad characters on a secret mission with a lot of guns. We also have Djimon Hounsou who's pretty ruthless and unfriendly, Cliff Curtis who usually plays some South American drug lord who is pretty funny in this one and Wes Studi as the bad guys team captain.
What is really entertaining is watching all the opposing characters try and work together to abandon the cruse ship in one piece and let me tell you, the two hours go fast and the guys get eaten even faster. The story is beyond trying to outsmart a creature that ate everyone on the ship and gets behind the story line to how it all came to happen, for there is a reason.
The best part was the ending, it was insane and it always makes me wish for a part two, because the end is crazy good and no you will never guess how it ends, but I would love to see it continue.
Movie Review: Some kind of, strange offshoot of the Archaea Ottoia family
Summary: 5 Stars
Filled with poor CGI special effects, Deep Rising is one of those movies you watch because there's nothing to do, and you wanna see some people get eaten by a big squiddy-type tentacle monster. And boy, does it deliver.
Finnegan and co. (Joey and Leila) are travelling with a bunch of mercenaries to the Argonautica, a huge cruise ship in the South China Sea.
Onboard, Trillian (the super hot and gorgeous Famke Janssen) has been thrown in a makeshift brig for trying to rob the ship's vault, and the comm equipment has gone haywire, and suddenly, the ship comes 'to a sudden, VIIIOLENT stop'.
And when Finnegan and co. arrive, they find the ship deserted, adn blood all of the casino and the elevators. After meeting up with the captain of the ship, Capt. Atherton and the ships owner, Simon Canton, along with good old Trillian, they group is attacked by horrible tentacle monsters that, 'drink you, they drink you alive!'
The CGI is frankly, the worst CGI I've ever seen. I personally am totally opposed to CGI, cause I think it all loks fake, especially in LOTRs, which I hate. However, there are no scenes where real things would work as the tentacles, they just move too fast.
The acting is superb, except for the Aussie and New Zealand guys (I'm from Oz, and frankly, nobody's like that, except the wife-beaters). Famke Janssen and Kevin O'Connor (Joey) are awesome, and O'Connor has some great lines. Finnegan (Treat Williams, now what kind of name is Treat, he's American, there's no way you can get away with it like Famke Janssen can) is good, with his trademark 'Now What' line.
The hilarious ending, even though it's a bit of a downer, leaves it open for an unlikely sequel. Wish they did make, I'd like to see more of Famke Janssen running around in a wet tank top with a cool machinegun in hand.
Movie Review: What's eating you? Go and gulp down this bloody thriller!
Summary: 5 Stars
Boy, I do love the combination of ships and blood-fests. I thoroughly enjoyed both Virus and Ghost Ship, and now another favorite arises from the depths.Despite no big name stars, get ready for some truly great performances from the cast; Treat Williams as Captain Finnegan, Kevin O'Conner (The Mummy) as Pantucci, Una Damon as Leila, and Jason Flemyng as Mulligan, just to name a few.
A group of would be robbers armed with torpedoes set out to terrorize and rob a luxury cruise ship, hiring Captain Finnigan and his ship and crew, who hire out to anyone with the cash, no questions asked. The cruise ship is sabotaged by an insider on board, but before the pack of robbers can make it onboard, something else takes control of the ship: the big squid thing.
Already on board is Trillian, played by Famke Janssen, a fairly incompetent female thief who manages to get herself locked in the vault before being able to steal a necklace she was after.
With Finnegan's ship disabled from running into a stray lifeboat, they all board the cruise liner, meet up with Trillian, and one by one fall victim Mr. Squid. Very action packed, rapidly moving, gorily fascinating splatter fest that is a five star must see. Especially when Mr. Squid vomits out the half digested guy who is still alive, one of my all time favorite horror movie scenes.
There are crunching skulls, folding metal, bursting pipes, rapid gunfire, and some pretty funny dialogue that manages to not sound out of place like so many flat one liners in horror films. All of the messy, gory, bloody lower levels of the ship, bending and peeling metal, various and sundry body parts, combine to announce the arrival of the squid-like monster with immense strength and an appetite to match. All in all, a wonderful journey with a surprise, funny ending. Enjoy!
Movie Review: A Comic/Adventure/Creature Feature Treasure
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like some of the quirky, anti-hero action/adventure films of the 1980's (e.g. "Indiana Jones", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Remo Williams", "Romancing the Stone", etc.), you'll at the very least LIKE this movie. You may even, as I do, find that you LOVE it and can't do without it.
If, on the other hand, you hate B-Movies, sea monsters that "drink you", goofy sidekicks, exploding speed boats, ensemble casts, killer toilets, elevators which can be operated remotely by shotgun, vague references to "the Posideon Adventure", international mercenaries, flying surf boards, torpedoes, champagne, the inevitable slower-than-human-running-speed hollywood explosions, and a little high-quality gore; do not see this movie.
Be warned, if you choose to not watch it, or refuse to watch it regularly, you will doubtlessly grow tired and sad early in life, gain ten pounds over Christmas, and the lack of "Deep Rising" will leave you more susceptible to disease and infection. You will lose some hair in the places you want it, and gain hair where you least expect it. You will forget the taste of fresh peaches and find yourself living in Milwaukee.