1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Decent movie, May 21, 2009
This review is from: Deep Water (DVD)
I had no idea what this movie was about. I sure did enjoy it. Kind of a different plot. Killers after a woman thrown in with a capsized cruise ship. It had some humor in it as well. Well worth watching!
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not so deep junk, March 10, 2003
This review is from: Deep Water (DVD)
About the Movie:
From the stacks of "you get what you pay for" comes this rather awful b-grade direct to video movie.
Deep Water sloshes through water parted 30 years ago by one of the classic adventure films of the late 20th century, Poseidon Adventure. Like Poseidon, it involves a cruiseliner that is hit by a tidal wave and capsizes. Like Poseidon, everyone dies except maybe 5 people. Like Poseidon, the only way to get out is to travel up to the lower hull to escape.
Deep water tries to be unique by adding guns and bad guys. There's no Gene Hackman yelling at God in this movie. Instead we have terrorists trying to kidnap an heir's daughter and a US Marine trying to stop them amidst rushing water, excruciatingly bad dialog, lousy sets and mediocre visual effects. We even have sharks swimming around in a kitchen in a place where there is no obvious way they could have gotten there. Oooo! How original.
This is clearly a rip off of a far better film. The film even recognizes it halfway through when one of the bad guys on the ship gets upset about the situation and announces, "We're living in the Poseidon Adventure . . . , and I for one intend to be in Ernest Borgnine's group when they pop the hull and haul his fat butt out."
At least they admitted it.
There really isn't very much redeeming about this film. Not even the performance by the late James Coburn could do anything to help it. Then again, since his entire part in the movie involved him sitting helplessly on a Navy Aircraft Carrier and fuming at politicians, I suppose it's not much of a surprise.
The only good thing about this movie is the opening theme. It's sort of catchy.
About the DVD:
This budget DVD release comes in a plastic hard case in fullscreen (pan+scan) with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. The video quality is decent.
Like many budget DVDs, it lists its interactive menus and inclusion of scene selections, subtitles and theatrical trailers as Bonus Features. Strange how they call them Bonus Features, when 99.9% of DVD releases have them.
Bottom line? Get the Poseidon Adventure instead. It's a far more entertaining and a far better movie than this halfhearted ripoff of it. 1 lonely star.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An extremely ambitious script!, May 13, 2006
This review is from: Deep Water (DVD)
This movie had all the dramatic factors to catch our attention and interest. A terrorist faction, an important girl to be watched and the always sensible nuclear premise.
But with such ties to disentangle, there is a hidden risk to dismiss one of the main ethic conflicts; unless you have a hidden Ace or may to lead the film over two hours and a half.
As whole entertainment the film is enjoyable to watch, but it could have been still better.
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