Deep Rising

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Summary: deep rising
Review: never can stop bragging about this movie. what a damn good movie! has one of the coolest creatures of all time in a movie in my opinion too. great acting and one of the most entertaining films of all time. one of my fav.
if you havn't seen this one then your definitely missing out!

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Summary: Calamari Baby!
Review: Everybody dies you know. Especially in this hilarious movie about a cruise ship that is eaten by a giant squid. Who can stop this squid? Treat Williams, YES! He was incredible in "The Phantom" another masterpiece and he proves himself in this movie. Axes to the face, ladies getting sucked into toilets and crazy guys puking into buckets are some of the funny highlights in this Stephen Sommers epic. Just when you think this movie can't get any better, they throw in Famke Janssen, the most beautiful lordess ever and you have the ultimate movie. I was enlightened after watching this movie.

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Summary: Great for your collection, just don't get eatin
Review: 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 movie

When 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.

End of spoiler

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.

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Summary: A Giant Squid That Eats People!
Review: Enjoyable movie about a squid that eats a cruise ship full of people. Treat Williams is a decent action hero and Famke Janssen is a good female lead. The dialogue is funny, crisp and the direction from Stephen Sommers is good. I was satisfied with the action and also liked Sommers' "Mummy" pictures. Plenty of special effects to grab attention from the most maniacal science-fiction fans. A good movie!

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Summary: Finally! A perfect B-movie!
Review: The legacy of A-list films like Aliens have led to B-movies of this sort (action-horrors) having several basic requirements: an assortment of deliberately overblown characters; a brooding, highly-stylised setting; a monster that has adapted to that setting so that they have a strategic advantage over the humans; inventive and memorable death sequences as the central group is reduced in number one by one; a secondary problem to overcome that is usually time-based; an invincible hero who faces everything with the same witty calm and oozes cool; and huge, beautiful guns that fire a thousand rounds a minute. Deep Rising embraces every one of these critieria, and then some.

Every dial in this film has been cranked up to the max. The action comes thick and heavy, the plot sears along at a blistering pace, the dialogue sparkles, the character dynamics spin back and forth - every single scene has several things happening concurrently. There is nothing extraneous to the simple pleasure of taking the spectator on a thrill-ride that involves hairbreadth escapes, intricate possibilities for romantic liaisons, and an ever-present possibility of an over-the-top, cheer-inducing death. Obviously, this is not a serious film. It is not high-art and nor will it probably ever be mentioned in a book on film theory, but in terms of sheer enjoyment, it gives the majority of big-budget action blockbusters a run for their money. The writer, director, cinematographers, actors and producers certainly know what appeals to their audience and how best to target them - there is nothing in this film that is not 'cool'. From Treat Williams' joystick-operated boat to the tomb-like interiors of the ship, from the costumes to the dialogue and set-pieces, from the weaponry to the monsters themselves, everything has been calculated to garner the most enjoyable reaction. Everybody gets their just desserts in incredibly imaginative and memorable ways, the truly unique CGI monsters blur the boundaries between reality and animation, and the big guns that dish out the retribution are simply awesome.

A movie that caters directly to your interests and expectations for a film is certainly something that is going to be a success, and Deep Rising is this on every level - cool, fast-moving, high-octane, huge-scale entertainment. It doesn't fall into the trap of most of these films - killing off too many people too quickly or not quickly enough - and lets it all pan out a satisfying and thrilling pace. And it's great to see X-Men's Famke Jansson and Gladiator's Djimon Hounsou in early roles that will probably be expunged from the CV at any future awards ceremonies. Watch it and enjoy!

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Summary: Don't be afraid...
Review: 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.

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Summary: Lightning-paced action/horror thriller.
Review: Treat Williams and company are stuck on board an oceanliner streaming with sea creatures that hunt by sound vibrations. Yes, it's Tremors on water! A deft mixture of action, horror, and comedy, this is ideal B-movie entertainment thanks to some fun performances (Williams and Kevin J. O'Connor) and very good special effects and production values. Like Event Horizon, this one's very underrated.

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Summary: This is a good prequel...but to what???
Review: This is a good movie...entertaining and scary.
Its Night and raining...
1. The ocean liner (ARGONAUTICA) created for the pleasurable pursuits, primarily gambling is the target of a South China Sea heist.
2. The "hero" Treat Williams (John Finnegan) charters his boat (an old WWII PT boat) and crew of two (his sidekick mechanic Kevin J. O'Connor as Joey and his sidekick's co-pilot girlfriend Leila), to a group of mercenaries with "no questions asked".
3. The Ocean liner is attacked (losing a small speed boat with the impact) by something that has forcibly stopped and penetrated the vessel. "It" remains unseen as it wreaks havoc and panic...and blood.
4. The charter plan (to rob the ocean liner) is revealed to Treat and his crew as the Mercs bring the PT boat up to war specs with the installation of new torpedo tubes secretly brought aboard in crates.
5. Confrontation between Treat and the Mercs in defense of his crew reveals the cool comic hero status of Treat and his sidekick mechanic.
6. State-of-the-art weaponry (newly designed Chinese-made high-powered mini-gatling guns with 100 round magazines) is distributed among the mercs. (Oh boy! This is gonna be good).
7. Treat's crew is disarmed and intimidated into complicity.
8. The PT Boat runs over the speed boat that fell off the ocean liner and is damaged. Repair is mandated as the adrift ocean liner is spotted.
9. Treat's mechanic can repair the damaged parts of his boat in the ocean liner's machine shop, hence their reason to board the ship with the mercs (unarmed of course!).
10. Hands-up, this is a robbery...hey, where is everyone? What happened here?
11. Let the body count begin...
12. Is anyone here? Are you behind...this hatch!...or this hatch!...or this...arrrggghhh...slurp! Slurp again.

This DVD is a must have. Picture quality is phenomenal. This is surely a candidate for the superbit treatment. You need every "bit" to view the slimy, bloody "it", which is scary and creepy as hell. Those who read this as "B" horror movie should remember that "B" movies are a genre and not a rating. This DVD is an "A".

The character Treat Williams plays (John Finnegan) is colorful, cool and badass enough as to make any plot secondary (just bring on the action and tongue-in-cheek remarks). His mechanic sidekick Kevin J. O'Connor (Joey) plays-off his sardonic remarks with an almost psychotic but sensitive and fearful whine (read - same as his character in The Mummy). Famke Janssen (Trillian) could...well...just stand there, roll her eyes and suck in those dimples and be effective at just about anything. The characters are what remain at the end of the story, a funtioning team that can survive the unsurvivable with controlled fear, coolness and humor. And, before end-credits, they are obviously stranded on a large unchartered island in the midst of another horrific story-arc, so where's the sequel???..."Oh hell, what now!"

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Summary: A most wonderful bite of cheese
Review: Okay, if you're into deep meaning and subtitles this is not a movie for you. However, if you fondly remember the Saturday afternoon creature feature, you really should put this in your library. The plot is mostly predictable - goodhearted smuggler meets girl and must save her from large sea creature and money grubbing bad guy. There are some great gross scenes and Kevin McDonald is a classic comedy foil. This is an all around fun movie.

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Summary: A Comic/Adventure/Creature Feature Treasure
Review: My roommate Paula and I watch this thing about once a month. I can't explain it, but something about this movie really works for both of us no matter how many times we watch the DVD.

Both of us are writers--she writes short stories and I dabble in screenplays--and we feel that the dialogue, pacing, exposition and characters in this film are rendered nearly flawlessly. It is not a perfect film but it is not meant to be.

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, like Paula and I, 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-running-speed hollywood explosion, and a little high-quality gore; do not see this movie.

But, 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. For all of this, we now hereby absolve ourselves of fault or legal responsibility. You have been advised.