It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

People who read books should not watch movies. There will never be any similarity between them. Does that make them bad? Verne's book "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is boring compared to any film made about it...except maybe ones with Doug McClure. 30,000 Leagues is clearly deeper than 20,000 Leagues but that doesn't make for a deeper film. This movie made me feel like I was in the first grade playing, "What's wrong with this picture?" It was fun and the only way to watch this film and enjoy it.The first question I had to raise (having served on a nuclear sub) was when did they start allowing women to serve on subs? The answer I got from Wiki was December 2011...meaning it hasn't happened yet and certainly didn't happen in 2007 when this film was made. Okay, but it made for a more interesting film. Now the enlisted people had dark black background petty officer patches sewn to their left arm on their light blue shirt. The background on the patch is supposed to be the same color as the uniform. The woman appears to have a steel workers insignia, i.e. a construction rating and not an engineering or electrical type rating as one might expect. The male petty officer appears to have a discontinued (as of 2006) photographer's mate insignia. This is a special sub and would be considered a re-enlistment bonus for top first class petty officers in the engineering field, not a second class photographer's mate. Natalie Stone as Lieutenant Commander Lucille Conciel has her oak insignia on the right lapel only. The captain had his birds on both lapels and Lorenzo Lamas as Lieutenant Michael Arronax had his Lt. bars on one lapel and a chief petty officers anchor on the other. You got to ask yourself what did they do? Go to an army-navy store and buy a handful of stuff and tried to make it work? Of course they are going to try to rescue a sub that is stuck on the bottom (in tact?) at 20,000 feet that was taken down by a giant squid. In the following scene Lamas "corrects" his lapel insignias by eliminating the chief's anchor and replacing his double Lt. bars with a single silver Lt. junior grade bars. Did he get busted in those 2 minutes?As their small sub descends they can look out into the ocean fairly clearly and see all kinds of things growing from the ocean floor. This is wrong on so many levels. 1) They don't have viewing window or screen doors on subs. 2)If they did it would be too dark to see much of anything 3) They are diving near the Marianas Trench. They wouldn't see the ocean flora even if they had a window with visibility.As the small Aquanaut descends it shakes as if it is falling apart. The reason given is because they are going through thermal layers which rocks the boat. Hmmm. Actually submarines operate in those thermal layers because it makes it harder to be detected. And was that flames underwater?The movie is fun as Asylum films demonstrate they know nothing about the Navy. Why do they insist on making ocean films? The only fun in watching this film is finding the errors. Captain Nemo was played bad. Natalie Stone look as if she was playing Casey Anthony on trial with the way she had her hair.No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Frequent "Asylum actress", Kim Little looks cute in a pony tail and that is about as sexy as it gets.

OK so my partner and I got this movie expecting a serious take on the timeless tale of captain Nemo. Sadly our expectations were far too high for this title, it seems we were duped by the "in the tradition of the abyss and the hunt for red October"! The only thing this piece of excretement has even remotely in common with the above titles is the underwater element. This movie is a complete shocker, it's so bad I created an account just to ensure other people don't support such horrid actors, producers and directors in any financial way. Honestly I know high school speech and drama students that have more skills and charisma than to talentless hacks polluting this movie. The audio guy needs to have a boom mic inserted up his rectum sideways, the sound is all over the place and is as if it was recorded on a cheap digital video recorder. As for the director, wow simply wow. I was thinking of someway I could critique your abilities without resorting to insults but sadly I can't. Lucky for me this complete rubbish movie is more than enough of an insult. You need to quit and try something your better at, I don't know maybe work at Walmart or something. Well anyway people I hope my review is enough to encourage you to hire or purchase a different movie.

THIS....is a must see if you like very, very bad movies. Or if you want to hang around with your friends, drink a lot and laugh about bad movies. But be warned: THIS IS OFFICIALLY DECLARED AS BULLSHIT!!!Let's list up some BULLSHIT... 1st: ACTING! This Movie defines the word ACTING in a new way...also I'm not sure, if this Movie-Look-Alike should be declared as a Movie... All Actors are obviously made of dead Wood or other lifeless Materials...and the Main-Character (Lorenzo Lamas) performs like he hasn't even realized they're making a Movie.2nd: GOOFS! To bring it up to one point: the whole Movie is a giant GOOF!!! I don't know where to start...* Factual Errors = the whole Movie is an Error * Dialogues = what??? * Continuity = forget about that *I really thought, i've seen the most mistakes that can be made alongside making a Movie, but this one raises the Bar to another Level.3rd: STORYLINE! Jules Vernes surely rotates in his Grave. If he would still be alive, he surely had to puke all day long, caused by this Adaption of his really good Story. All Elements from his Story are turned into BULLSHIT. A Captain(Nemo)with an Ambition, that makes no sense at all. The World-Police(USA) coming to save the day...with their Top-Agent-Cop-Cyborg-Terminator-Marine-Navy Seal-Seargeant-Lt. Commander-Lorenzo Lamas. Inventions, that are so ridiculous and a Submarine...declared as Up-To-Date and new, but looks like it was built with Parts from the JunkYard...and things done, ignoring all physical laws and all discovered science...and we're not in a Dream!At last i can only WARN everyone with the words, spoken so many times before: AVOID AT ALL COST!

What a disaster! The plot is paper-thin, the acting diabolical and I wondered if they sacked the continuity person part way through.A stricken submarine called the 'Scotia' (as in Nova Scotia) was occasionally and randomly referred to as the 'Scotty-a' by one of the main characters, who clearly hadn't learnt his lines. The leading lady's bright red (or sometimes bright purple) lipstick was an overwhelming and ever-present distraction - at one point she was rescued (by ex-hubby, naturally) from underwater to emerge unconscious and soaking wet with lips perfectly coated in vermillion. Ex-hubby was curiously unaffected by the same water, which allowed him to remain dry presumably so that his buffoned hair did not flatten. As for Captain Nemo - he was decidedly camp which didn't sit well with his egomaniacal desire to destroy the world by nuclear annihilation.If you must watch this, be prepared for a trip to hospital to have your buttocks surgically unclenched.