Sorry, this movie sucks

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A Major Disappointment

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

What keeps Deep Evil just about afloat are the creepy first half-hour and the good creature design(The Creature from the Black Lagoon comparison is definitely apt). The acting is also competent, nobody is terrible but nobody apart from Lorenzo Lamas perhaps stands out either. Deep Evil however was the sort of movie that started off with promise but went in a downward spiral very quickly. There is nothing interesting about how it looks, how it's shot is dully lit with a use of bland colours. And most of the special effects are generically coloured and look as though they were constructed in a rush at last minute. The music doesn't drive the movie at all, in fact it is a very lifeless soundtrack and is just forgettable at the end of the day. The dialogue is very turgid stuff, full of tiresome clichés and full of lines that make you go "what do they mean by that?" How the actors managed to keep a straight face or not look embarrassed is quite an accomplishment. The story is often slow to the point of boredom, and is predictable and like Alien mixed with The Thing but with hardly any of the suspense, thrills or nail-biting horror. The deaths are generally weak, in number and how they're played, and the alien(s) are not threatening in the least and are developed and characterised very poorly. The science and the depiction of the military will raise eyebrows and even annoy/anger people. There is very little interesting about the characters and you don't care for a single one. To conclude, not bad to start with but from half-an-hour in it's very bad. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Deep Evil starts as Major Michael Ross (Adam Harrington) gets a call from his boss Colonel Harrison (Michael Kopsa) informing him to get his team ready for a top secret mission, a mission to a biochemical research laboratory just outside Alaska that has gone into lock-down because of some unknown breach, problem or terrorist attack. Joining the military team are scientist's Cole (Ona Grauer) & Lang (Jim Thorburn) who seem to know more than they are telling. Once there the team enter the facility & find some sort of slime covering everything, eventually they find one of the staff (Leah Cairns) but she is infected with some sort of disease & is killed. The team soon realise that they are trapped inside the facility with an alien creature that drips intelligent killer alien water(!) & to add to their worries the entire place is going to be nuked to stop it spreading outside...This Canadian production was directed by Pat Williams & as far as dumb unoriginal made-for-tell 'Creature Feature' type Aliens (1986) rip-offs go Deep Evil isn't as awful as some although that's not saying much & I would still have a hard time recommending it to anyone other than the most die-hard of sci-fi horror film junkies with a high tolerance level much like myself. The script is your standard Aliens rip-off with some team of soldiers going in blind to a situation where they find themselves up against some hostile alien threat in an isolated location where they find themselves stranded facing both the alien menace & impending extermination from some huge explosion that will destroy the entire place they are trapped in or on. Most of the clichés are here although the alien water is fairly new, however the makers just end up ripping James Cameron off again & using it like the liquid metal T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). Things start off OK & hold your interest but then it descends into people walking around dark corridors not doing much which becomes boring very quickly. The character's are alright (even if they are ripped-off from Aliens with Lang as the evil Burke corporate character, there's a wise cracking Hudson type & the female scientist Cole is the strong woman Ripley impersonator), the plot is alright if a complete rip-off of James Cameron's greatest hits & it's watchable I suppose but fairly forgettable without much action or gore & it's nothing that hasn't been hundreds of times before.Surprisingly the CGI computer effects aren't too bad here, the liquid changing into alien spider's effects are actually fairly impressive for a low budget production such as this. There's not much gore here unfortunately, there's some melting skin, someone is shot through the head & there's some blood splatter but not much else. The aliens themselves are alright but forgettable, they are humanoid in shape & are obviously just actor's in rubber suits.Apparently shot in just 14 days on a fairly respectable $1,500,000 budget in the strangely named Chilliwack in British Columbia in Canada the production values are better than expected & it looks alright with decent enough special effects. The IMDb lists the dreaded Jim Wynorski as an executive producer & I would assume he had a hand off role as this turned out better than just about any film he ever directed.Deep Evil is your standard unoriginal Aliens rip-off made-for-telly 'Creature Feature' with better CGI & production values than I expected although in the end it's the boring & predictable script that kills it dead. Footage from the opening sequence was edited into the abysmal The Thing Below (2004) made the same year.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*"Deep Evil" is yet another alien in a lab movie. I've only seen about a hundred of these flicks. What's one more? Lamas and friends are sent to secure the aforementioned lab. It is there that they will meet their B-movie destiny. Apparently those crazy scientists have done it again and cloned an alien to turn it into some kind of super weapon. The Lamas gang will have to use all of their military training and hardware if they want to leave this lab alive. Sounds pretty standard doesn't it? There's one big problem though. Two words: Alien Water. They made an alien water monster? No, no, no, oh no...Yes, it's true. "Deep Evil" manages to be one of the lamest alien in a lab movies I've ever seen. That's a bold statement. So the scientists thought it would be pretty cool if they could make a water monster. They got a couple of drops from outer space and started playing around with it. That might have been a good idea for the scientists but why did the filmmakers think it was worth anything? A water monster? Are you kidding me? How lame can you get? There are actually scenes of the soldiers shooting puddles of water. If that's not a recipe for disaster, I don't know what is.Soon the filmmakers realize their error and try to make up for it by actually having some monsters in their monster movie. First they spring for some water spiders and then they actually splurge and whip out some aliens. Unfortunately, it all comes too late. "Deep Evil" had already passed the point of disaster by the time the aliens came out to play. This is one alien in a lab flick that needs to be skipped.

A really pathetic wannabe SF movie. When we have; A lame story in a mixture of lousy dialogs and superb poor acting followed by some bad CGI effects and an awful creature design, can we consider this in the slightest way as a good movie? I don't think so!!! This movie will bother and annoy the more quality viewer among you big time and this for many reasons. A highly contagious virus escapes, which seems to be a morphing drop of water, and we see a special unit (Delta team) running around in one of the most poor protection suits I have ever seen in a movie. Is it normal in these kinda situations that the women of this so called "hard-boiled" Delta team are running around with this suit half open onto their breasts? I know the term "sexy" sells but please leave some credibility! Would you feel comfortable running around in an infested area like this? Not even to mention the so pathetic "Jerry Bruckheimer", "Hero" wannabe soundtrack. This is maybe fun for the American viewer but turns really quick into annoying and pathetic for an audience outside the States. Once again we have that over the top "Hero, patriotic" feeling the director wants to shove us with, poor really poor. This TV movie is a waste of time, money and energy. And I'm not talking about their money or whatever; I'm talking about my time, money and energy!!! Avoid like you would avoid a virus-infested area!!!!!!!!!!!!Dario/ 1/10