Deep Rising | | Cast : | Treat Williams, Famke Janssen | | Director : | Stephen Sommers | | Studio : | Hollywood Pictures | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | January 30, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | May 06, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | This Is No Octopus's Garden In The Shade!!!(And Famke is HOT!!!) | Content
 | In this movie we learn that nearly the entire passengers on a luxury liner have disppeared. Thankfully Famke Janssen is still alive and she plays con artist and thief named 'Trillion"!!! Perhaps that was how much money she wanted to steal?Then a boat load of looters arrive at the ship and all Hell breaks loose as they try to escape the clutches of what looks like a giant octopus!!! This movie proves yet again that the 1950's "Mutant Monster " movie is alive and well and is a lot of fun to watch. I give this movie 5 stars because I think Famke is so beautiful and she can act too which is a rare talent for a successful ex model tuned actor. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 02, 2005 | | Summary | Deep Rising (1998) | Content
| Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Anthony Heald, Wes Studi.
Running Time: 106 minutes.
Rated R for violence, gore, and language.
A deep-sea crew coincidentally stumbles upon an abandoned underwater vessel and is then ripped from limb to limb by a huge, flesh-eating monster. Sound familiar? The original "Alien" formula has been beaten to death for over twenty-five years, but directors such as Stephen Sommers and screenwriters like...Stephen Sommers (hmmm...) seem to believe that something new can come from the same old outdated, overused, and underperformed formula. Treat Williams stars as the head of a group of modern day, underwater pirates who accidentally lurch upon a vacant luxury liner in the South Seas while searching for some goods to steal. What they find instead is much more than what they bargained for.
The sensual Famke Jannsen stars as a thief and con artist also aboard the ship, but even her flare cannot save "Deep Rising" from sinking. Director/writer Sommers attempts to add some humor (especially with the highly talented Williams), but this attempt falls overboard. The special effects are only halfway believable, the acting is atrocious, and the script is laughable, all the while using every cliché in the book. A complete waste of nearly two hours. If you're a huge fan of fake digital monsters, over-the-hill action stars who think they are funny, and huge explosions--check out "Deep Rising", but also check into a mental institution.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 25, 2005 | | Summary | Movie was crap | Content
| Don't know how anyone can like this movie, i saw it on TNT late night. Some of those movies are good, but this one wasn't one of those, it was just plain stupid. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 29, 2005 | | Summary | NOW, WHAT, INDEED!!! | Content
| There is something unfailingly wonderful about this cheerful, bloody, kick-ass little movie...i usually like my horror straight, with no humor or goofy sidekicks, but this movie is the exception...and it all works. Famke (sp.?) looks great in a red dress, Treat Williams (what a Jack Kerouac look-alike, why no
movie bio all these years?) and Kevin Anderson are perfect, and the special F/X are horrifically effective...all the tentacles you'll ever need! Plus, who is the slimiest, the Anthony Heald character or the monster? Hell, I even love the ominous sound of the title. This vastly underappreciated gem deserves a wider audience...do yourself a favor and grab yourself a copy of the DVD...I just did. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 19, 2005 | | Summary | One of the best movies to recommend! | Content
| Stephen Sommers... this I would say is his best movie over all. It has a great beginning showing the ship and its crew. A great ending that explains nearly all of your questions about what this whole plot was set out to be. This whole movie is basically about a group of hired mercenaries planning on taking over and blowing up a pleasure ship. While all of it's passengers already have been erased by the unknown creatures in the water.
The Mummy was great, but based after a cult classic character we already know wasn't so entertaining. I even liked Van Helsing... but it had a story that wasn't believable to many and it was just alittle over the top, especially with CGI. Both action thrillers done by Stephen Sommers.
Deep Rising had actors who acted... who gave you excellent little humor lines and things to listen for all the time. This is by far Treat Williams best movie to me... his character is a genius. The bad guys you hate, and you laugh at. When the good guys like Famke Janssen, make you laugh even more... for acting like a bada**.
The creature just in the opening scene can give you chills of what's in those waters. It's extremely believable the entire film... even during the CGI that they did use to create it. I like it people compare this to Tremors, Tremors was an excellent film. Still I think Deep Rising has one advantage over it... it's a rare title that not everybody knows, not being widely released.
Deep Rising is action packed with blood, with shooting, with creatures, and with the creepy cold chills of the ocean waters. You have to love this movie and have to watch it if you haven't already... this ain't no pleasure ride. |
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