Wonderful character development!

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The worst thing about Stephen Sommers' films is the poor CGI (and the amount of it they include). The effects in this are probably the best overall from any of his films, although certain shots are definitely still clunky. Sommers should've just written the story and let someone handle the screenplay, as it's really not all that good, filled with generic dialogue from "I've got a really bad feeling about this" to "There's something you don't see every day". Kevin J. O'Connor is pretty funny in this, as he was in The Mummy, and the scene where he gives Wes Studi a pistol while he's being eaten by the creature is gold. Treat Williams does a pretty good job with the material he's given, as does Famke Jannsen (who also looks very lovely). The action sequences are all fun, and the film takes advantage of the cruise ship setting.

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!

I thought this film was good and I'm surprised some people hate it. This Film has a lot of Action and a very exciting story. The story is about a crowd of people who get attacked on a cruise ship by a giant creature. I have to say I like the look of the creature I thought it looked really cool and the effects of the creature were okay,you could see some CGI but not much. Treat Williams and his friends along with a group of soldiers decide to get on the ship because they were in an accident and their boat would not work. Obviously they were unaware that a sea creature had killed people on the ship otherwise they would not have got on. Things get interesting when the characters find out the ship is empty and when they find people dead they realise someone or something killed them and they search the ship and they find survivors who tell them what happened and they soon come face to face with the creature and have to work together to destroy it. The film was fast paced and had good action set pieces and Fun scenes with the bad guys shooting the creature with huge guns. Also the bad guys were fun to watch and sometimes they were funny,they were bad guys you love to hate. Treat Williams and Famke Janssen gave good performances and the rest of the cast were okay. Treat Williams played a cool character and I liked him a lot in this movie,I found him to be a kick ass and take names guy and he was fun to watch. The film also has a lot of fun tongue in cheek humour in it. The dialogue was Fun and the characters were fun and I liked the main three characters. You can tell that the people are never totally serious and sometimes I like that in a movie and I think it worked well in this movie. I thought Kevin J O'Conner was Funny in this film and I really liked his character. He was treated like a pushover but he proved to everyone that he was no pushover,and he defended himself,he was also a total blast to watch and made me crack up on many occasions,I especially like the scene where one of the bad guys says to him I don't like you and his response is (Like Me you don't even know Me!.) Pretty funny scene in my opinion and the look on Kevin's face was priceless.I also thought the creature was really badass and he was fun to watch,he's definitely a creature you don't want to mess with.The film also had a very exciting and intense Ending that I really enjoyed,we also get to see Treat Williams on a Jet ski which was really cool! And The film ended with a Bang. The Film is Very Underrated and deserves more praise because it's a really Fast Moving Fun Film and its Very Rewatchable and I highly recommend it.

Deep Rising begins with a text informing us that many ships have mysteriously disappeared over the South China Sea. The million dollar question is "How did they sink?" The suggested answer is that undiscovered sea monsters swim up to the surface and sink them. After exploiting the mystery of what undiscovered life lurks within the depths of the ocean, the film introduces us to some of the characters: John Finnegan (Treat Williams), Joey Pantucci (Kevin J. O'Connor), Leila (Una Damon), Hanover (Wes Studi), Mulligan (Jason Flemyng), Mamooli (Cliff Curtis), Mason (Clifton Powell), T. Ray (Trevor Goddard), and Vivo (Djimon Hounsou). The first three are doing business with the other six by transporting them to an unknown location by boat. Little does Finnegan (the owner of the boat and leader of the business) know that, for insurance money, someone is paying Hanover, Mulligan, Mamooli, Mason, T. Ray, and Vivo to sink a cruise ship with hundreds of people on it. As the mercenaries' client sabotages the ocean liner's motor functions, something from deep beneath the ocean's surface slams into the hull. When Finnegan and the others arrive and board the ship, nobody is on board, but there is blood everywhere. Soon after, the characters find themselves fighting for their lives against enormous, man-eating sea creatures with tentacles.Deep Rising is a shoddy, ludicrous, and utterly incompetent disaster. Its putrid directing and writing leave it completely devoid of anything a real action-packed horror movie should have: Elegance, chills, convincing visual effects, plot, authentic characters, originality, and excitement.The directing is unbelievably garish. Director Stephen Sommers has always felt the need to make his movies humorous, and that's fine, but none of the humor in Deep Rising is actually funny. Most of it is just annoying, like when, before the monsters show up, some of the mercenaries maniacally shoot their automatic weapons at a sudden noise and don't stop until told to. In addition, there are plenty of horrific things that happen in the film, but none of it is horrifying or chilling at all. To name just one example, a half digested but still living man is shot out of a monster's stomach. This scene is intended to be disturbing, but instead it's silly and superfluous, and will only make the viewer roll his or her eyes.Since we see so much of the monsters in Deep Rising, one would think the filmmakers would have made them look better than they do. Instead, they look remarkably cheesy for 1998. The fact that the creatures are computer generated images is so obvious, and their movement is choppy. This, along with the endless but poorly shot action sequences, makes the movie very non-thrilling.The atrocious story and screenplay are the worst thing about Deep Rising. The premise is a mishmash of other movies: Some people are trapped onboard a sinking ship (The Poseidon Adventure) with monsters that prey upon human beings (Alien, only with more than one monster). The plot is riddled with errors in logic, such as the monsters' tentacles breaking vault doors off their hinges and warping metal walls, or people handing others loaded guns to kill themselves with instead of just shooting them themselves. The dialogue consists mostly of characters sniping at each other and saying boring rhetorical questions like "where the h*** is everybody?" or "what the h*** are those things?", leaving little room for actual content. Since none of what happens is compelling at all, the viewer will have trouble paying attention and will forget things before the movie is over. And the characters are so shallow and under-acted that even Finnegan, the main character, matters about as much as an extra in any movie of any decency. There is no concern about their fates or the general outcome of the plot. This, along with a host of already mentioned problems, spells a project high on inanity and devoid of excitement. Guns are fired, soulless people die, stuff blows up, and that's about it. Will the heroes survive? Will the villains die horribly? Not only does no one care, but the answers are never in doubt, due to how predictably derivative Deep Rising is.    For emptiness, cheesiness, inappropriate tone, and sheer lack of power, Deep Rising cannot be beaten - nor for wretchedness. It's too awful for adults and too violent for children, and I encourage you to avoid it.