Surprisingly incoherent and boring

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I don't remember where did I find list of Lovecraft adaptations that I copied and started to follow chronologically, and it's mystery to me how did this movie end up on it, but I'm glad I saw it. Also, I would not say it's horror either. More of an action with deep sea monsters. If you seek depth, layers and morals... skip it. But if you just want good monster entertainment this you don't wanna miss. Predictable, full of clichés and totally unoriginal, but a lots of fun. Jean from X-Men in leading female role is just additional treat. I enjoyed it.7/10

Just like the big bug or alien movies of the 1950's, Them, The Blob, Deadly Mantis etc, the one thing that all of these and countless others just like them had in common is that none of them made any sense, had very questionable or impossible science and guns were largely useless. So it is with Deep Rising; a 90's version of a 50's Sci-Fi theme.Basically, a team of mercenaries are sent to rob a luxury cruise liner that has been rendered crippled on purpose by the owner of the ship in an effort to claim the heist on tax. Passengers and crew were meant to escape in the lifeboats while the ship was deliberately scuttled, eliminating all clues pointing to it being an inside job. Unfortunately once the ship was sabotaged it was attacked by large worm-like sea monsters that wipe out the majority of the people on board. Once the mercenaries arrive and realise what they're up against, it's a fight for survival while they try and find a way off the sinking ship and not get eaten in the process. It's a simple, almost arcade game style monster movie. In a word, Deep Rising is dumb, but it doesn't set out to be anything different than that. Just like those movies of old, there's very little story, the same implausible science and despite the odd decent casting choice, we get some very 2 dimensional acting from all concerned. You won't get any character development in this, whatever you see of a person in the first 5 seconds is exactly how they'll be right up until their death. However in spite of all this, Deep Rising works as it never takes itself seriously. It's a prefect late night TV movie where your brain is at that stage of shutting down for the night but you're not quite ready for bed yet. There's enough blood & gore and enough decent CGI action to keep you watching until the inevitable showdown with the boss monster at the end. The end where the last remaining 2 decide to blow up the cruise ship are pretty good with the explosion sequence being a highlight. Deep Rising is worthy enough for late night viewing but it's not worth the money to warrant owning your own copy.

Plot: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.This is a creature film that I grew up watching and over the years it has hold up very well in my opinion. I've always loved the cast whether it's Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, and the mercenaries. I don't understand why this film doesn't get talked about these days, this film is self aware as to what it is and it embraces that.This film deserves some respect when talking about the underrated horror films of the 90s. Give this film a chance, don't listen to the critics who say it's a ripoff of die hard (which I don't get at all) they don't understand what type of film they're watching. All I say is watch the film and judge it yourself.

I remember seeing the promos for this movie saying this was the scariest thing since Tremors, so naturally I had to give it a watch......and boy was it a letdown!So what's the banana? Out on its maiden voyage, the Cruise Ship Argonautica and its passengers celebrate with an evening party, only for the vessel to be abruptly plunged into darkness. Meanwhile, a Captain named Finnegan, who's piloting a boat with a compliment of Mercenaries, is taken captive by them, revealing themselves to be in actuality Pirates who intend to rob the Argonautica of all its riches and sink it. Upon reaching the blacked out liner, they discover all but a handful of people have been killed by an unforeseen tentacled creature, that's infested the ship's ventilation system and can strike without warning. What follows is a desperate fight to survive about the stricken vessel, whilst also partaking in a clumsy collection of stupid plots and conflicting story lines that make you more and more confused.Okay, what's so bad about this film? The acting for starters, which is very cheesy and over the top. I would like to think that this is similar to Tremors in that it's a satire of what people would act like in such a horrific situation, but this is meant to be taken seriously, and with these performances... no.Next, the CGI, which is so laughably poor and fake looking you'd think it was just hashed together in 20 minutes on Flash Studio. It's pixelated, the creatures never look convincing, and it really is very dated.Next up, the story, which, as mentioned, is very confusing. If it was simply just a basic plot about a rescue ship sent out to find a stricken cruise liner, only to come across a vessel filled with horrible monsters, that would make for a gripping adventure/horror story. Instead, we have pirates, crossed with an insurance scandal, crossed with another thief who's already on the ship, crossed with implausible attempts to resolve the problem, and with the movie ending on probably the lowest point you could. I won't give it away but it really is undeniably stupid.So, to sum up, this movie is very, very bad, in more ways than one. The CGI is bad, the story is bad, the acting is bad, aside from a few jump-scares it's not that frightening, and when you do finally get to see the monster, you never thought you'd be laughing at the end of this movie! I certainly was, it was really bad!