That was an excellent one.

Sorry, this movie sucks

Just perfect...

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This movie is exactly what it looks like; a cheesy b-grade horror-sci-fi film. Where this movie excels is in not taking itself seriously. This is a great popcorn flick with above average acting, dialog and special effects (for a 90s b-grade cheese fest anyway). The bad guys are spectacularly over the top. Treat Williams is a great anti-hero leading man. Kevin J. O'Connor is hilarious in his role of the likable but dorky sidekick.There isn't much more you could ask for in a laugh out loud popcorn flick. Academy fodder this is not, but it's still one of my top 20 or so favorite movies

DEEP RISING is a generic, clichéd, roller-coaster ride of a monster, mish-mashing such films as DIE HARD, SPEED 2, and of course (for this genre) the inevitable ALIENS. It's got a wafer-thin plot, and the characters are given little to do except interact with the special effects of the monsters. When the monsters aren't around, the film gets pretty boring. But despite all of this, I still found DEEP RISING to be a greatly entertaining film. While it's a little sad to see the apparent dumbing-down of cinema values, the fact remains that big tentacled monster creatures will generate audiences, so that's why films like this come out every couple of years or so. They don't break any new ground, they're not even original, but they're fun. Popcorn movies, if you like.I like the straightforwardness of the film in that you know what you're going to get in terms of special effects. That's right, a big CGI tentacled, scaly, slimy monster. There are no shocks there. But what is shocking is that the effects are actually good. That's right, they're good. Most of the effects in recent films look far too fluid and unrealistic because of their computer origins, but DEEP RISING mainly bypasses these flaws (hopefully a sign of things to come) and gives us something special.While the scenes of tentacles chasing down corridors do look pretty fake, I would say 60% of the special effects on offer are realistic (if you're a generous viewer like me). The highlight of the film is an encounter with the big brain creature, a huge octopus-like thing with white eyes and lots and lots of teeth. Very exciting and nice to look at. However, there are lots of other good effects scenes, from tentacles crushing helpless victims to a surprisingly gory moment when a half-digested man pleads for help.The rest of the film is taken up with people shooting, things exploding and survivors running around flooded corridors. It doesn't take much to please me, so I was happy. The acting is all pretty much average, from Treat Williams as the unlikely hero to Famke Janssen as the heroine, and it's definitely nothing to write home about. It's not really the acting that's important, though, it's the monster and for a change it's excellent. If you're looking for good, light-hearted scenes of excitement, horror, and action, then you can't go wrong with DEEP RISING.

Stephen Sommers's Deep Rising is some of the most fun you'll have watching an overblown action horror spectacle, if that's your type of thing. It plays the slimy underwater alien formula to the hilt, an epic and very funny gory swashbuckler that is sadly very underrated and not too talked about these days. It's ridiculously watchable, insanely gory and punctuated by one liners and quips that work so well in the flippant context of the script. The story concerns a band of nasty sea pirates who plan to hijack the world's largest ocean liner cruise ship, and all the riches on board. They arrive to find the vessel empty of any passengers, and full of something they'll wish they never came across. A massive and very icky underwater predator has eaten everyone on board and now has turned its attention to the newcomers. They are picked off one by one in deliciously grotesque kills that show director Sommers in his little seen R rated mode. Treat Williams is a hoot as John Finnegan, a sort of cross between Indiana Jones and Bruce Campbell, a soldier of fortune and adventurer with a vernacular chock full of wiseass quotes and idioms that tickle the funny bone no end. He's got a sidekick named Joey Pantucci (Kevin J. O Connor slays it) and a girlfriend named Trillian St. James (isn't that the best name ever?) played by Famke Janssen in a fierce, sexy and capable turn as the chick with the gun that everyone loves. The trio make the film dizzyingly entertaining and you find yourself wishing you could hang out with them longer once it's over. There's a snivelling villain played by the always smarmy Anthony Heald, and the ragtag group of pirates are brought to life by distinct personalities such as Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Djimon Hounsou and the great Wes Studi. Sommers is a seriously underrated director. He spins loving odes to the adventure films of Old Hollywood with passion, wonder and the spark of imagination in spades. And what does he get? Critically and commercially spat on, time and time again, with some of his films not even getting a proper release (don't get me started on the masterpiece that is Odd Thomas). Hollywood and the masses don't deserve him and his toiling, thankless work, and yet he soldiers on. What a guy, and what a stellar filmmaker. This ones a testament, a rollicking, bloody piece of creature feature bliss that never fails to knock my socks right the hell off.Now What?!

I thought this film was good and I'm surprised some people hate it. This Film has a lot of Action and a very exciting story. The story is about a crowd of people who get attacked on a cruise ship by a giant creature. I have to say I like the look of the creature I thought it looked really cool and the effects of the creature were okay,you could see some CGI but not much. Treat Williams and his friends along with a group of soldiers decide to get on the ship because they were in an accident and their boat would not work. Obviously they were unaware that a sea creature had killed people on the ship otherwise they would not have got on. Things get interesting when the characters find out the ship is empty and when they find people dead they realise someone or something killed them and they search the ship and they find survivors who tell them what happened and they soon come face to face with the creature and have to work together to destroy it. The film was fast paced and had good action set pieces and Fun scenes with the bad guys shooting the creature with huge guns. Also the bad guys were fun to watch and sometimes they were funny,they were bad guys you love to hate. Treat Williams and Famke Janssen gave good performances and the rest of the cast were okay. Treat Williams played a cool character and I liked him a lot in this movie,I found him to be a kick ass and take names guy and he was fun to watch. The film also has a lot of fun tongue in cheek humour in it. The dialogue was Fun and the characters were fun and I liked the main three characters. You can tell that the people are never totally serious and sometimes I like that in a movie and I think it worked well in this movie. I thought Kevin J O'Conner was Funny in this film and I really liked his character. He was treated like a pushover but he proved to everyone that he was no pushover,and he defended himself,he was also a total blast to watch and made me crack up on many occasions,I especially like the scene where one of the bad guys says to him I don't like you and his response is (Like Me you don't even know Me!.) Pretty funny scene in my opinion and the look on Kevin's face was priceless.I also thought the creature was really badass and he was fun to watch,he's definitely a creature you don't want to mess with.The film also had a very exciting and intense Ending that I really enjoyed,we also get to see Treat Williams on a Jet ski which was really cool! And The film ended with a Bang. The Film is Very Underrated and deserves more praise because it's a really Fast Moving Fun Film and its Very Rewatchable and I highly recommend it.