Deep Rising Reviews

The Critics Were Wrong

Slated by the critics, for a change. Its back to B-Movie gold, with this quality non stop creature feature. Good effects, fairly witty script and a buckett load of action.

Get your mates round have a few beers and enjoy.

Deep Rising: Bad B Movie = Superb!

Some words of warning before you consider renting Deep Rising. The script verges on the apalling, the acting is generally atrocious, the characters are too annoying to merit much sympathy and Jason Flemying from 'Lock, Stock...' is in it. But squint your eyes into their patented B-movie viewing mode and you will discover `Deep Rising` to be a frenetic roller-coaster of a film. It's quite simply a cracking monster movie, as a hideous squid creature attacks a pleasure cruiser, hungry for human flesh. Stephen Sommers directs with restraint, teasing us and hiding the monster from us for a long portion of the film. Considering the budget, the big squid looks excellent where it could have been embarrasing. The set-pieces are worked with panache, and there is a tangible sense of tension. Looked at with an open mind, `Deep Rising` is a marvellous monster movie with a brilliant mini-twist to look forward to at the end. Highly recommended!

A surprising favourite

At first glance, Deep Rising would seem to be just another monster movie, with something rising from the deep to denude a cruise ship of all its passengers. But there is something about this film that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. Somehow Treat Williams and Famke Jansen turn what should be a cheap shock thriller into something deeply satisfying. Perhaps it is the strong secondary cast, or the strangely different subplot - although the latter is put in place simply to give the monster some decent opposition - but whatever it is - it worked. Somehow, all the disparate elements of this movie came together and made a really good film.

I don't say it loud and I don't say it often - but Deep Rising is a firm favourite of mine and is well-watched and well-loved.

Give it a try.

Well worth a hire

Deep Rising is one of these films you watch thinking it will be bad & then your surprised how good it is! Good mix of ideas, sharp script & not bad effects. Left open for Deep Rising 2, which I hope they make, with the same people & effort in the 1st one.

If you like a bit of horror & gore, have a go at this one. Best way of describing it is ALIENS on a cruise line

Titanic vs It Came From Beneath the Sea

An above average creature feature which keeps to the '50s B movie style but updated with superior sfx and better acting. The sfx are used carefully with the creatures slowly being revealed which gives time for the main actors to fill out their characters, and you almost cheer the creatures as the baddies get their come-uppance one by one. I am surprised this film did not spawn a sequel.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Full Scream Ahead!

Indeed! Never has a tag line for a movie been so descriptive: you'll be screaming with laughter! This is like 'Airplane!' on water, and if the cast and crew didn't have a damn good laugh making this quality B-movie, then I would be very surprised. Treat Williams, as the hero, must have watched Tim Thomerson in 'Trancers' for inspiration. Quality one-liners, excellent gore effects (really!) and stomping action all the way to the brilliant twist of an ending. I'm happy to say that I own a copy of the film: it's essential viewing!

Well Worth A Look

Exciting Stuff. Will have you on the edge of your seat the whole film.

Very Good

THRILLS AT SEA

Deep rising is a film based on a luxury cruise liner and an attempt to hijack the most expensive liner ever made. But what the criminals don’t know is that they face another force in the form of a deep sea creature that is after drinking the flesh of any human it can get its fangs on! I enjoyed this film and it offers plenty of ‘jump out of your skin’ type scenes. The storyline is fairly good although the film did seem a little on the long side (although in fact it was only 102 minutes). The film has plenty of excitement and thrills and if action/horror movies is your stuff then this is for you.

Fantastic film

It came as a pleasant surprise that this was such a fast paced and hugely entertaining film. Very gory in places but full of shocks - a few times it really made me jump. All the family loved it!