Deep Rising
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Movie Reviews of Deep Rising
Movie Review: Top Creature Feature with B-Grade feel
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the sort of film that makes going to the movies fun. And it makes owning a home theatre system even more so. This film is the most cliched, overblown, obvious creature feature you have ever seen, with ideas balatantly stolen from other films. But this film works! Treat Williams is not your typical square jawed action hero, as you'd expect to find in a film like this, but nevertheless he carries the film well. Famke Janssen is the token female (in an otherwise all male cast) and its shows. Her inclusion into the cast was an obvious crowd puller and to allow for some kind of romantic sub-plot between her and Williams. The film is just plain fun, and anyone who complains that it isn't plausible or realistic needs to purchase a sense of humour. While the DVD doesn't contain much in the way of extras, i still recommend this disc to anyone who likes a slam bam action blast, with the final edge-of-your-seat chase sequence sure to have you cheering at the end. Lovely sound, and decent picture, this disc is one you should own, if not for any reason but to test out your speakers.Movie Review: Before The Mummy there was...
Summary: 4 Stars
Before director Stepehn Sommers directed his smash hit The Mummy, he directed this film - Deep Rising. Deep Rising is a film on the sam level as The Mummy, with great comic timing and enough scares to balance it out and making it enjoyable for all audiences. Treat Williams does an adequite job in his role of Finnegan, a captain who's in way over his head. But it is Femke Jennsen as the beautiful theif Trillian (where'd Sommers' get these names?) who's both ravashing and comical. Kevin J. O'Connor gives a "Beni"-like performance, but he's playing for the good guys this time and his role works well for the film. The visual effects (done buy DreamQuest Images), are not quite ILM, but they definately verve their purpose to the tune of many jump-out-of-your-seat thrills. As did The Mummy, Deep Rising begs for a sequel (The Mummy is getting one on May 4 - The Mummy Returns, which so far looks awesome!). I'd love to revisit the characters and have some more fun in Stephen Sommers world of sweeping adventure and off-beat characters giving memorable one-liners.Movie Review: The guiltiest of all pleasures.
Summary: 4 Stars
I feel like a hypocrite, I hated both Mummy movies by Stephen Sommers, but I love this movie! It is my number one guilty pleasure. It was all around cheese, but it knows it and doesn't care, therefore giving it a lot of room to have fun, which it does. The plot is thin, the fx, are decent, and the acting is...well there, but everybody looks like there having fun, I can imagine this movie was a blast to film. The action in the movie is well paced and exciting, especially the totally unbeleivable, yet thoroughly exhilarting jet ski chase through the belly of the ship at the end of the movie. The dialogue is 100% cheese, but fits the movie perfectly, even the one liners are pure gold. I'm not a big CGI fan, but I liked the fx in the film, the half digested villain is some of the best CGI I've ever seen, even rivaling Episode 1. This movie was lambasted by critics from all over, I should have done the same, but I did not have the heart, it was just too much fun. If you liked both of the Mummy movies by Mr. Sommers, you get a real kick out of Deep Rising!Movie Review: Action-packed!
Summary: 4 Stars
A crew of Highjackers led by Treat Williams go into a ship where the passengers suddenly have disappeared but only find one surviving passenger ( Famke Jannsen), they all must survive and escape the ship from a deadly prehistoric monster that is attacking the ship.It's got a farfetched plot but this movie is very entertaining and gory at times. The monster itself is cool looking, the action keeps going making this a enjoyable feast of blood and action.
Also recommended: Titanic, Ghost Ship, Die Hard, Leviethan, Deep Star Six, Deep Blue Sea, Alien Resurrection, Aliens, From Dusk Till Dawn, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Die Hard 2, Con Air, The Rock, The Toxic Avenger, Slugs, The Beginning of the End, Jaws, Lake Placid, Alien, Predator, and Total Recall.
Movie Review: SOMMERS BEST!!
Summary: 4 Stars
If you want to explain the hellish abomination that was Van Helsing, you need look no further than Deep Rising, the original Sommers blend of horror and flip humour that was the template for The Mummy movies and what was to follow. Deep Rising is where Sommers got his schlocky blend of humour and horror just right-it's fast, funny and completely over the top. Treat Williams is great as the wisecracking hero who confronts a big beasty from the deep on a ocean liner. This probably needed the likes of Harrison Ford to sell it at the time, but Williams has such a twinkle in his eye that it doesn't matter, both he and this gulity pleasure are great fun to watch.