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Movie Review: DVD "The Deep"
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 5 Stars
Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt. Five stars.
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Movie Review: A now classic undersea adventure
Summary: 4 Stars
From the opening scenes, Jacqueline Bisset's twin assets are as much stars of this movie as the actors themselves. She surely inspired the wet T-shirt. The first few minutes of this film are wordless and virtually silent as we experience some amazing underwater photography, both of the ocean floor and Ms. Bisset's graceful form. Bisset and co-star Nick Nolte are treasure hunters (I'm sure this inspired the recent Into the Blue with Paul Walker and Jessica Alba) diving off the coast of Bermuda. While exploring a wreck they find a small glass ampule and a rusted medallion and seek out the expertise of treasure-hunting legend Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) to help identify what Nolte hopes is evidence of sunken treasure. Treece initially seems as shifty as the Haitian drug lord (Louis Gossett) who is keenly interested in the ampule, so we don't immediately expect him to save the day for our two treasure hunters.
It turns out there are two treasures: the ampule is part of a large cache of morphine that was sunk on a World War II supply ship. The turbulent sea floor has merged this wreck with an older Spanish galleon believed to contain a hoard of gold and jewels. Gossett plans to make a pretty penny from turning the morphine into heroin. He soon resorts to intimidation and violence when he doesn't get his way, and the rest of the movie becomes a high stakes race to recover the Spanish treasure while preventing Gossett getting his hands on the morphine. Throw in a huge man-eating moray eel and you have a fantastic action-adventure.
Shaw, who was perfect for this kind of role (a tough non-PC hero), was nearing the end of his acting career with this movie while Nolte's and Bisset's stars were just beginning to shine. They are both young and beautiful and you can understand why this was as much of a summer sensation as The Blue Lagoon a few years later. Gossett is also great as the villain.
Movie Review: Gorgeous ocean scenery, and Bisset in a wet shirt to boot!
Summary: 4 Stars
The Deep is a very interesting little yarn about deep sea treasure that Peter Benchley released hot off the success of "Jaws" So again we get a sea monster (moray eel) and a clean shaven, back from the dead Captain Quint, as Robert Shaw basically plays that character again with as much gusto as he did in Jaws. In the place of Dreyfuss and Scheider, we get a young looking Nolte, and an incredibly sexy Jacqueline Bisset...wet t-shirt notwithstanding, "Gail" just oozes sexuality/sensuality just standing around. Powerful supporting cast with crusty Eli Wallach, and an evil Louis Gosset Jr. I believe this film would have been better off with a hard "R" rating, as Bisset parades around showing off her best assets the entire film anyhow! There was also a sexy scene with her and Nolte that could have been made more elaborate, and would have only added to the film...but overall, it was very enjoyable to see Robert Shaw chew up the scenery one last time!Movie Review: The Deep
Summary: 4 Stars
I had seen this movie on TV many years ago, and wanted to watch the whole thing. It's not available in video stores. I enjoyed it very much as did my husband, who had never seen it. The movie is based on the book by Peter Benchley who wrote "Jaws". I recall an intro from the TV showing that appears to be missing from the video. It shows the submarine being wrecked off of the coast of Bermuda and a young Romer Treece finding Adam Coffin on the beach. Whatever the movie lacks in substance is made up for in the fine talents of Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bissett, and Louis Gossett, Jr. This was one of the last movies that Robert Shaw made. His early death was a great loss to the movie industry.