Aliens Of The Deep Details

Director James Cameron (Titanic) takes the plunge again, following his Ghosts of the Abyss with a second deep-sea documentary for the IMAX cinema screen. Filmed in 3-D, this 47-minute mini-movie draws parallels between the weirdness of the creatures in our own deep oceans and the likely oddity of the organisms we might encounter in deep space, in this case on Jupiter's moon Europa. It's a neat notion, but the film is an unfocused mess, beginning as a conventional wildlife documentary, segueing into spectacular but arbitrary deep-sea sequences and climaxing with special effects redolent of Cameron's own aquatic sci-fi epic The Abyss. There are some wondrous images, but they're outweighed by too many vanity shots of the director and his hi-tech submersibles. A bit of a bore, then, and a film that perhaps confirms the belief of some that IMAX is novelty cinema, the visual impact of which often outstrips the quality of the features made for it.

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