The Abyss (Full Screen Edition)
by James Cameron
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Actor: Ed Harris, Leo Burmester, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Todd GraffDirector: James Cameron
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Mikael Salomon
Writer: James Cameron
Editor: Conrad Buff IV
Editor: Howard E. Smith
Editor: Joel Goodman
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Producer: Van Ling
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Abyss (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Must have for your collection
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for years to see this version of The Abyss. Yes this is the Director's Cut with the added footage that changes your whole perspective of the beings. I wont give anything away to anyone who hasnt seen this, but it definitely makes you think differently of the beings seeing this version.Amazing what about 14 minutes of extra footage will do to a movie.
The DVD quality is excellent when played on a quality DVD player with quality wiring as all DVD's are.
I never view any of the special features on DVD's, I'm buying a movie, not the making of a movie. I guess it would be nice though.
But I'm here rating what I saw in this DVD and it was very good.
Summary of The Abyss (Full Screen Edition)
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 02/04/2002 Run time: 171 minutes Rating: Pg13Meticulously crafted but also ponderous and predictable, James Cameron's 1989 deep-sea close-encounter epic reaffirms one of the oldest first principles of cinema: everything moves a lot more slowly underwater. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some "issues" to work out, are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on earth, and the petro-techies have the only submersible craft capable of diving down that far. Every image and every performance is painstakingly sharp and detailed (and the computerized water creatures are lovely) but the movie's lumbering pace is ultimately lethal. It's the audience that ends up feeling waterlogged. For a guy who likes guns as much as Cameron (his next film after all, was the body-count masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day), it's interesting that the moral balance here is weighted heavily in favor of the can-do engineers; the military types are end-justifies-the-means amoralists, just like the weasely government bureaucrats in Aliens. --David Chute
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