Never has a movie tag-line been more appropriate. "This ain't no pleasure cruise" sums "Deep Rising" up pretty well.
Despite a dependable cast of character actors, "Deep Rising" never manages to drag itself out of the water. It's either a wet version of "Aliens" or a horror version of "The Poseidon Adventure". Borrowing heavily from not just one but two well-known films is a terrible idea.
Writer/director Stephen Sommers deserves to be set adrift in a leaky life-raft for throwing up this daft action adventure. The Hollywood Suits also deserve lead buoyancy aids for giving him the money to make this lame nonsense. When Harrison Ford sensibly turned down the lead role, the studio should have torpedoed this listing junk and sent it to the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Avoid this sucking patch of quicksand and watch "The Abyss" again instead. You won't be half as bored and disappointed.
Despite a dependable cast of character actors, "Deep Rising" never manages to drag itself out of the water. It's either a wet version of "Aliens" or a horror version of "The Poseidon Adventure". Borrowing heavily from not just one but two well-known films is a terrible idea.
Writer/director Stephen Sommers deserves to be set adrift in a leaky life-raft for throwing up this daft action adventure. The Hollywood Suits also deserve lead buoyancy aids for giving him the money to make this lame nonsense. When Harrison Ford sensibly turned down the lead role, the studio should have torpedoed this listing junk and sent it to the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Avoid this sucking patch of quicksand and watch "The Abyss" again instead. You won't be half as bored and disappointed.