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Deep Rising

1998

Stephen Sommers

Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Anthony Heald ...

4.6

4,934

Fantasy. Action. Horror The sea captain Finnegan has his boat chartered to take a group of men out to a rendezvous point in the middle of the ocean. He discovers part way through the journey that the men are in fact a group of heavily armed mercenaries. They arrive at their destination, the brand-new luxury liner The Argonautica, and Finnegan realizes that the mercenaries have been hired to destroy it. But upon boarding The Argonautica, they find it floating ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"B-movie from top to toe, this provides just enough entertainment to let you overlook its vast and gaping flaws (...) By aiming low, it occasionally hits high (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Bemusing, how much money and effort go into the making of such a movie, and how little thought. (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Lawrence Van Gelder The New York Times	"A ridiculous but energetic movie (...) Sommers keeps the proceedings moving along briskly if predictably"	NEU
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"A slick, entertaining action film".	POS
United States	Ty Burr Entertainment Weekly	"It’s pretty darn wonderful — a tightly written, often howlingly funny 'Aliens' knockoff (...) Until a disappointingly formulaic last third, when the impulse to blow everything up takes over,	NEU
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[It] demonstrates all the originality and vitality of something scripted by a computer. In fact, considering the rigid adherence to the expected formulas, perhaps it was (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	"An old-fashioned B movie with A-budget effects (...) As such, the film is better than average at delivering the chills"	NEU

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