Deep Rising (Region B)

HA! I love to include the classic tag-lines in the headline! 😆Before Stephen Sommers went on to direct The Mummy and Van Helsing, he made Deep Rising. An old-school, fairly silly creature feature about some crooks trying to rob an ocean liner only to discover it abandoned and now inhabited by seemingly tentacled creatures with a taste for flesh!Treat Williams stars as Finnegan, the captain of the boat hired by the crooks to get them to the cruise liner. He's got a great personality and a quick mouth ably supported by his mechanic and friend Pantucci played by an always crazy Kevin J. O'Connor.The crooks are made up of some really top supporting actors who went on to great things including the absolute bad ass Djimon Hounsou. Wes Studi is the leader with style and a desire to stay alive at all costs. Jason Flemyng is annoying as ever but gets killed off soon enough. The late Trevor Goddard is an Australian nutter who picks on Pantucci a lot. Cliff Curtis and Clifton Powell don't get much to do unfortunately.Then we come to the cream of the crop, Famke Janssen 😍 She's always amazing and here she's very fiery like her character in Goldeneye, although not as sadistic! She hits it off with Finnegan immediately and they form an alliance.The story is pretty good for such a small scale film. CGI is absolutely awful but it was early days for it and a lot was done in post-production after the test audiences didn't like the finale.I love to watch this on a Sunday afternoon when it's raining because it adds to the effect!

This was never meant to be a film that would tick all the boxes for an Oscar nomination, it wasn't supposed to be at the top of the list of nominations for an academy award. It was meant to be a fun, action packed thrill ride that will entertain and provide a good way to spend a couple of hours in front of the TV.The story follows Treat Williams (as wooden as ever) who is giving some mercenaries a lift, what he doesn't know is that he's taking them to a luxury cruise liner that thye are going to board, rob and then blow up. But things take a nasty turn as from the depths of the ocean a monster rises and infests the ship, killing almost every single passenger (in a very gruesome manner) and causing the mercenaries and Williams a lot of trouble once they get on board. No sooner than they do board than one by one they get picked off by the hungry tentacles. The CGI is decent, not ground breaking, but acceptable enough for a film of this age and budget, the acting is decidedly hammy, though Famke Janseen is good as the thief who survives by being locked in a fridge and who ends up accompanying Treat on their journey through the ship.Stephen Sommers is an adept director, having helmed such films as The Mummy 1 and later its sequel as well as the entertaining Van Helsing. As i said before it will never win any awards but it does offer up some thrills, spills and action and, for those of us who don't want to watch a film that makes us so bored we end up staring out the window, its perfect.The special features are rubbish, but i doubt that anyone will be dedicated enough to this film to really be bothered how it was made.Overall it is worthy of a three star rating for offering mindless fun with unique monsters and a fast pace.

this light-hearted creature feature is huge fun, with inventively gory monsters and fast-paced action. Treat Williams and Famke Janssen make for engaging leads while Anthony Heald is as reliably slimy as ever as the villain. The CGI holds up pretty well and doesn't look too dated. A fun mash-up of horror, action and disaster movie that succeeds by never taking itself too seriously whilst still being led by performances with gusto and conviction.

This is an underrated film, its not fantastic but actually its a good fun film. I know that the acting isn't brilliant and the storyline could be better. But this film is loads of fun, it is really enjoyable.It hasn't aged well and the special effects are pretty poor but I still love to watch it. This is just one of those films you can sit and enjoy without thinking too much.Fun film filled with action, well worth watching, even if it is just once!

A "creature feature" with some reasonable special effects, featuring Kevin O'Connor, Treat Williams and Wes Studi, creature effects are reasonable although obviously CGI in a few places and there's some great dialogue, "If the cash is there, we do not care" - what kind of life philosophy is that?" shouts Joey at his skipper, Finnegan, who soon has cause to regret his ill chosen words. The Argonautica is a luxury cruise ship too costly to run, so its owner decides to indulge in a little hijacking by Wes Studi and his team to claim on the insurance, the trouble is the ship is attacked by enormous sea serpents who start munching their way through the passengers. Joey says " We all have to die because you screwed up on the math!". T Ray growls at Joey, I don't like you..." and Joey says "You don't even know me". Good lines, fun to watch with your mates and a few beers but there's several gruesome scenes. One of the hijackers gets an axe buried in his head by mistake which is pretty realistically done.

This is an insanely fun action horror comedy film that manages to overcome an underwhelming first act and a whole boatload of cliches to make for a highly entertaining and engrossing experience. The cast is really good, the action scenes are great, the practical effects are superb, most of the special effects still hold up, after the first act the pacing is solid, the score is well-done, features plenty of intentional laughs and the violence is effective.

Just a classic piece of tongue in cheek, ludicrous set up, big heist monster movie. Think Die Hard meets The Thing meets Poseidon Adventure via Big Trouble in Little China.Get the beers in, break open the popcorn, dont take it seriously, and go enjoy.

Love this film, a great monster movie. Pure entertainment. Its thrills, spills and laughs from star to finish. When you just fancy an hour and a half of not having to think too much it's the ideal film.