To me, this movie is perfection.

How sad is this?

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I saw that movie 20 years ago, so I don't remember it too much, excepted that the idea of the sunk ship was damn good. Many years ago I played and loved the BIOSHOCK video game, an absolute must have. I then realized that its story was so near from that "old movie I had seen late one evening". In fact the mythic BIOSHOCK largely relies on GOLIATH AWAITS, that makes out of this movie a real MUST HAVE !All BIOSHOCK elements are in the movie : Graphic style are comparable though not identical (BIOSHOCK is "art deco", GOLIATH is 1930s style), atmosphere is dense, there is an "end of the world" feeling, the boss is a "bad guy", life of peoples is awful, its cruel, dark, gloomy ....It's not at all official that GOLIATH AWAITS is the main inspiration of BIOSHOCK, but for one knowing this game there is absolutely no doubt. And there is no shame to have taken ideas from GOLIATH AWAITS, the movie has so many good ones. A remake would be welcome. What is funny is that GOLIATH became a game ... that will become a movie ! !

Well I thought this was going to be really cheesy but I was pleasantly surprised. The initial idea is fun - a cruise liner sinks to the bottom of the sea and 40 years later a salvage crew discovers it - plus a whole community of people who have somehow managed to stay alive inside it! The beginning of the story is the best, when a diver catches a glimpse of a girl's face through a grimy porthole, followed by the first divers surfacing inside the shipwreck. The drawbacks are mainly the impossibility of the people actually surviving at all - the explanations for how they have been breathing, eating and so on for 40 years trapped underwater really fell flat for me, no spoilers here about that as I couldn't actually understand that part at all! The film sags a little after the surface people are inside the ship, but picks up quite well as we learn more about some quite sinister rules of the "society" down below, however there is a really, REALLY pointless sub-plot about a top secret document that could have been totally cut out of the whole plot with no ill-effects at all. The surface people even say that the document must be retrieved and then destroyed, which is ridiculous because it's already at the bottom of the sea! The movie comes to quite a dramatic close, with an almost ridiculously drawn out struggle for survival by the main characters right at the end. The acting is mostly good, well it's got Christopher Lee after all, and he's never let a film down that I have seen.Effects are fairly good, lots of real ship and diving hardware on view, and the sunken ship exterior looks reasonably ominous. So it's 3 hours of fun (I watched the full version), and I wonder why there has not been a DVD rediscovery of it, like there was with Salem's Lot, which also saw the light of day in a truncated version before being released in full. Sadly the only commercial release of Goliath Awaits was a feature length re-edit, which is a shame, as it's really not bad at all.

Considering the low quality of TV movies, this one has to be considered one of the better ones. I just watched the commercial free 3 hr 20 minute version.Its a great premise, even with all of its holes. Mark Harmon is an incredibly poor actor (check out all the scenes where he has to have his shirt off) who apparently was being showcased in this movie. But the movie survives in spite of him.Christopher Lee and Frank Gorshin carry out their roles quite well. The writers do a credible job of explaining how certain unlikely events might have taken place, and there is enough of a plot to keep things moving. Plus its a fun family affair, where you can laugh at some of the silly lines, yet still hang in there waiting to see what comes next.I would not recommend renting or buying it, but if you have nothing else to watch and 3+ hours to kill, its decent fare.

This was the film that first introduced me to the actor, Duncan Regehr, who played the leader of the Bow people. His performance and that of Christopher Lee as the conflicted leader of the sunken Goliath were the only bright spots in this sci-fi thriller. It could have been a great picture for the idea was fascinating, but the writing was heavy-handed. Even such top-notched character actors as Jeanette Nolan, John McIntire,John Carradine, and Jean Marsh were hampered by the insipid dialogue. I love Frank Gorshin but his performance here was a comic book caricature and unworthy of him. Both Mark Harmon and Emma Samms were pretty to look at, but bland. Duncan Regehr came across as sexy and powerful, and one of the film's implausibilities was that the heroine would prefer Mark Harmon over him! Duncan Regehr and Christopher Lee, were the only actors who gave a three-dimensional performance to what was written as one-dimensional characters. Still it's not a bad picture-- it is a interesting picture, but not a compelling one!