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Deep Rising [Region 2] | ![Deep Rising [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71FSN7D7JRL._SL500_.gif)
| Director: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'connor, Wes Studi
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $25.29
Rating:  127 reviews
Sales Rank: 197786
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Korean (Original Language), German (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 21691609
UPC: 743216916092
EAN: 0743216916092
ASIN: B00004RYRF
Theatrical Release Date: January 30, 1998
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Following in the reptilian slime trail of Anaconda, this derivative monster movie from early 1998 plays like a cross between Titanic and Tremors, with parts of Aliens tossed in for good measure. Director Stephen Sommers couldn't recognize an original idea if it swallowed him whole--which, by the way, is exactly what happens to a lot of passengers on a luxury ship that is attacked by a giant serpent-like sea creature with a voracious appetite for human flesh. Treat Williams plays the leader of a mercenary crew whose members discover the ravaged ship and wage war on the creature; Famke Janssen joins him as an onboard thief and con artist who just happens to be highly skilled with automatic weapons. Of course, the action grows more intense as the body count rises and along the way the monster is gradually revealed in all of its gruesome glory. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Deep Rising arrived in theaters shortly after another waterlogged thriller, Hard Rain, and if nothing else it provides proof that the B-movie monsters of the 1950s are alive and well and as cheesy as ever in the age of digital special effects. --Jeff Shannon
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 Harmless but Forgettable Creature Feature May 27, 2009
Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland)
If you are a fan of those "Sci-Fi Channel Original" films, then you may really like "Deep Rising". It plays out like a bigger budget version of Sci-Fi standards like "Mega Snake", "Kaw", "Fangs" or "Ice Spiders". The film is done by Stephen Sommers made famous for the recent "Mummy" movies, and you can see several seeds planted in "Deep Rising" that grew into fruition with the "Mummy" films. The comic hero, played by Treat Williams, the goofy sidekick "Tooch", the touge but lovable heroine played by Famke Janssen, the over-the-top villains straight off the set from the latest "Die Hard", all clicked much better in the first two "Mummy" films than they do here.
The basic story is that a group of commando-like robbers want to hi-jack and rob the patrons of a private cruise ship. Unfortunately before the commandos arrive, the cruise ship attracts the attention of "something" living on the ocean floor. When the commando-crooks arrive, the ship is basically deserted, and the few remaining survivors inform them that a "creature" has devoured most of the ship's passegner and crew.
Simple enough, a decent basis for a monster movie. Unfortunately, things begin to really unwind as soon as we catch a glimpse of the monster. The CGI monster looks as though Hanna Barbera had a hand in it's creation, and the squid from Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" made over 3 decades earlier looks more convincing and threatening than the writhing mass of tentacles found here. The acting is hammy, and over the top, which might have actually worked if everyone played it serious, but for the most part the cast is constantly smirking at how witty the dialogue is supposed to be, and playing up the "comedy" which just doesn't work.
Top all of that off with a soundtrack comprised of some guy jamming out on a Casio home keyboard better suited for a Hulk Hogan movie, and this is just a lousy creature feature entry all the way around.
 Deep Raising May 14, 2009
Barry L. Richards (Tell City, In. USA)
This is a good movie.... I love the action and horror combo. There is some humor in the film which i thinks helps. I say buy it . My five stars means it good. and is on my top ten list of favorite films...
DEEP TROUBLE. Special effects are below par. Acting is stiff. It's worse than Anaconda. November 3, 2008
Cestmoi
The movie is in DEEP TROUBLE. Its special effects are below par compared to today's movies. The acting is stiff and not engaging. There's no suspense or horror. The fighting scenes are typical of B movies. I menan they don't look real. It's worse than Anaconda.
It's one of the worst monster movies.
Addictive September 10, 2008
Movie Lover (Bloomington, IN)
It is one of those movies... you watch it the first and wonder why you did... but the more you see it the more it grows on you.
 Let this ship sink... August 22, 2008
Andrew Ellington (Mulholland Drive)
When I first saw `Deep Rising' I was young and foolish and I thought that it was the coolest horror monster adventure movie out there. Then, recently, I saw it again and had all these awesome memories of what was going to be seen, yet it seemed like a catastrophic failure to me the second time around. None of the chills were there, the special effects, while decent, were not the crazy eye-poppers I remembered. The acting was stiff (on most accounts at least) and the script was dreadful. It was as if I was watching a completely different movie than the one I remembered with such fondness.
The film follows a group of hijackers who bust into a luxury ocean liner expecting to strip it of its valuables only to uncover that only a handful of passengers are still alive and the ship is infested with these tentacle looking monster things that are draining the life out of the humans on board. Armed with some heavy artillery the surviving men and woman (a con artist who happened to survive through a stroke of circumstantial luck) decide to take on the beast in order to escape.
The problems with `Deep Rising' lay in Sommers' hands. He wrote and directed this debacle. There is absolutely no originality to be found within the film, at all, and that is disappointing because it could have been really interesting and or exciting. Instead it comes off rather boring and predictable. The acting is atrocious on most fronts (Treat Williams actually turns out a decent performance and Famke Janssen tries to save her character from inevitable cliches) which is mostly chock up to the horrendous script and dialog they are given to work with. I know that a film in this genre is filled to the brim with one-liners (which I'm never really fond of) but these ones rarely land right.
In the end `Deep Rising' comes off as a stupid, mildly entertaining distraction from better more fulfilling films. Sure, there is some excitement value here but really, why bother? There are many films that have more going for them; films that are original and exciting and entertaining. `Deep Rising' just doesn't stack up, it doesn't offer the audience enough of anything to sustain them or warrant their adoration. I understand that not every movie has to be award worthy or of such prestige caliber, but every movie should at least deliver the best it can, and `Deep Rising' is far from the best of its breed.
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