Deep Rising
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Movie Reviews of Deep Rising
Movie Review: critcs, get a life!
Summary: 4 Stars
Well casted, subtly funny, and of course action packed, this should've been a much bigger hit than the so-called critics gave it. Then again, I've said it before, and here it comes again, broken record or not, with most movies, who really cares what they think? Not me! To me, the critics don't know squat about good movies-of any genre.
I'm no expert on movies, but usually, I judge movies on my own criteria-story, direction, cast, special f/x, music, basically, I analyze every part before trashing it, it appears most people here do the same, as they should.
My opinion on this movie is it's well acted, good story, although somewhat cheezy, but that was probably the idea, the f/x were convincing enough for me, plus the charecters are hardly wooden-the bad guys are easy to hate, Treat Williams and Famke Jennsen are easy to like, even though she started off bad, Anthony Heald, whom you may remember as Dr.Chilton from Silence of the Lambs once again plays his role to the helm. Director Stephen Sommers, famous now for combining action, horror, adventure, and humor-was very successful with the elements here, as he normally is, plus I also liked the Mummy films-by him, I also don't really see those as remakes of the classics, admittedly though I haven't seen those, so I can't judge them either way. Long story short, if you haven't seen this, give it a shot, you may be surprised.
Movie Review: An Entertaining Surprise
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to say that this is a quite entertaining piece of filmmaking. When people go in to this film expecting to see a horror/sci-fi film in the caliber of Alien, then of course they will be dissapointed. After seeing many of these types of films, I can say that this is a cut above the rest. I must also digress and disagree with my fellow reviewers by saying that this is a B-grade film, but that's okay. After all, Re-Animator was a B movie and it was one of the most brilliant horror films ever made. The things that propel this film above the rest of the junk out there are great things like character development, as well as characters you actually LIKE, a sometimes very involving story, and very skillful directing. Stephen Sommers no doubt was able to use this film as a stepping point to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. While Deep Rising borrows from many films, this can not be looked down upon of as so many films borrow from others that it is common. It just depends on how you borrow, and Sommers does it in homage instead of in a cheap way which worsens films nowadays. This is a good film that is the perfect thing to watch if you want to see great action, likable characters, an interesting story, and some pretty good CGI effects. It is much better than most of what you can find out there, so give it a chance... you'll be delighted and surprised.Movie Review: Plot? We don' need no steenking plot!
Summary: 4 Stars
Deep Rising has the terrorists and geography of Die Hard,the boat from Titanic, a few of the characters from Star Wars, the soldiers-vs.-monsters action of Aliens, a creature that resembles a mindless Lovecraftian Old One, a horribly gory almost-dead victim stolen from Robocop, and the classic sequence where the bad guy dies a slow, horrible death because he wasted his last bullet trying to kill the good guy. Ah, the modern morality tale. Plus a sense of humour which is really what keeps this movie going. As you may have gathered, this is a formula movie, but it is done gracefully and never slows down or tries to be serious. At the same time, it never mocks the traditions of the creature feature, treating every cliche and stock scene with exactly the right respect. (Unlike, for example, Independence Day, which couldn't decide whether it was a major family feature or a B-movie, or the Mummy, which never made its nasties seem nasty enough). The jokes are funny, the gore is plentiful enough to turn give seasoned stomaches a jolt, the action is well-framed, the music is creepy, and the ending is FABULOUS!! However, it's not for everyone. I've seen this a couple of times with mixed crowds, and I've found it to be one of those movies that will make your best friends look down on you forever - unless they are horror fans. Don't say I didn't warn you.Movie Review: Great for your collection, just don't get eatin
Summary: 4 Stars
This happens to be my favriote movie. None of my folks exept my parents ever seen it. But they would get a chill of this movie. No the reason why I gave it 4 stars is because there could be added sound affects. Like when in the beginning they showed words of what happened they couldve transfer it to the envoirment of the movie. More scary chilling affects could have been added as well. the villains deserve what was coming to them execpt its a shame that black guy, not the one with the....SPOILER....ax stuck to his head by the captain. The captain was a scum after all to disengaged the ship by imputting the virus disks to dissable the line of communication and knocking everything offline. What would really give a chill is another spoiler alert. Do not look if you didn't see the movieWhen the monster spat billy out without showing the likes that he was swallowed by the creature, they showed him in slime with half of his face was gone. Showing his hand with a hole in it.
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If you havn't seen this movie it would be great to rent it or own it on DVD/VHS. Its good with the lights out.
Movie Review: They are in Deep Dog Duty Now
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay how many scary pictures are funny? The better ones actually. Think about it, "Scary Movie", "The Mummy", "Tremors", and "Army of Darkness". Scary and funny mix nicely. This is entertaining because it has a decent mix of scary and funny. I think Stephen Sommers did a decent job directing on this one. The cast is great and the special effects aren't bad. So all-in-all it has most of what the previous movies I mentioned have. Maybe not quite as good as them, but certainly not bad at all. I recommend you catch this one if you like the movies I mentioned.
The plot of modern day sea pirates hi-jacking a luxury cruise liner is rather interesting as this actually has happened. More so today than when the movie was made, but currently sea pirates are actually becoming a real problem again. In this stories case the pirates find a empty ship, well except for a few hungry sea monsters. Far-fetched? You bet, and I like it. Some critic accusing Sommers of not having original ideas is just plain lame. I haven't seen anything like this before myself, and even if I had I would still say he did a good job.