Simply A Masterpiece

Let's be realistic.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

All movies need to be reviewed in the context of the era in which they were made. This 40 year old movie is a classic for its time. The story line is excellent. The underwater cinematography outstanding and Jaquline Bisset well, as beautiful and elegant as ever. The movie focuses on treasure hunters tourists who get mixed up with unsavory islanders. The movie chugs along as expected with good prevailing over evil, but most impressive is Robert Shaw's performance which is as good or better than his prevail of Quint in Jaws. A simple straight forward classic with outstanding underwater footage.

I love Robert Shaw and Eli Wallach, both two great great actors. Eli Wallach has a small, insignificant role in this. Robert Shaw is good but I love him much more in "From Russia with Love", "Battle of the Bulge", "The Sting" and especially in "A Man for All Seasons". Jacqueline Bisset is young and beautiful. Same Nick Nolte. Here he is not the great actor from later roles like in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" or "Cape Fear". Beautiful underwater filming by Christopher Challis. When I first saw it, about 40 years ago, I liked it more (I was about 20 years old). Watched again in 2018, I find it static, monotonous, boring, does not have the same charm.

Fab on all points. See it, many times, as I have done.

Date: 10 May -First Time Watch- The Deep is a movie I should have liked a lot more then I did. The story centers around two treasure hunters, searching the ocean floor to find treasures. However, their innocent actions soon lead to a dangerous man who wants what they discovered. This movie was good, for the time it came out back in 1977. Unfortunately, over thirty years later it has lost it's touch due to the fact that so many movies since have been centered around treasure hunters (National Treasure for example). This movie is decent but unless you really don't mind seeing another movie about the same thing Hollywood has done over and over again, I advised you don't watch this movie however if you like Robert Shaw, then you should since he was very good in this movie.7/10