Please don't spend money on this.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Fab on all points. See it, many times, as I have done.

A vacationing couple (Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset) go diving for sunken treasure and find lost morphine shipment. Drug dealer Lou Gossett, Jr. and treasure hunter Robert Shaw become involved and things get dangerous for the couple. Not a horror movie, although the movie poster from the time certainly wants you to think that. I'm sure that was to capitalize off of the Jaws connection. There is one frightening scene where a moray eel attacks Nolte and another bizarre scene where Bisset is subjected to some kind of voodoo ritual. But really it's just a dramatic thriller with some nice underwater footage and a memorable opening with Jacqueline Bisset swimming underwater in a thin white t-shirt and bikini bottom. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. The performances are all good, with Robert Shaw unsurprisingly the best in the lot. The film is overlong and the final scene is so cheesy I defy you not to burst out laughing at it. Not very deep, but entertaining enough.

Now I read the book simply for the enormous moray nicknamed Percy, but I soon discovered the plot was far more intense, it involved a honeymooning couple in Bermuda, diving off shipwrecks for sunken treasure, fighting against greedy Cuban gangsters and angry tiger sharks, and it was very exciting, very thrilling, the eel though only made at least three appearances, it was dwarfed by the struggles between the human characters themselves, and barely seen. The reason people usually want to view The Deep is because they think it is a monster flick similar to Jaws, involving a gargantuan moray in place of a huge great white, but this is not the case as I learned not to my disappointment but surprise and enjoyment, it is much (excuse the pun) more deep and further than Jaws in certain respects, using a leviathan as only a minor character and not the main focus. But yes after seeing the eel, Percy as he is named, I fell fast asleep and haven't really cared about locating and viewing the movie completely since because I know that the book is good enough for me, and this film is probably pale and poor adaptation, that is all I will say.

Date: 10 May -First Time Watch- The Deep is a movie I should have liked a lot more then I did. The story centers around two treasure hunters, searching the ocean floor to find treasures. However, their innocent actions soon lead to a dangerous man who wants what they discovered. This movie was good, for the time it came out back in 1977. Unfortunately, over thirty years later it has lost it's touch due to the fact that so many movies since have been centered around treasure hunters (National Treasure for example). This movie is decent but unless you really don't mind seeing another movie about the same thing Hollywood has done over and over again, I advised you don't watch this movie however if you like Robert Shaw, then you should since he was very good in this movie.7/10