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Deep Rising

Calimari Productions

Hollywood Pictures

Cinergi Pictures

Canada

United States of America

한국어/조선말

English

Treat Williams

Famke Janssen

Anthony Heald

Kevin J. O'Connor

Wes Studi

Derrick O'Connor

Jason Flemyng

Cliff Curtis

Clifton Powell

Trevor Goddard

Djimon Hounsou

Una Damon

Clint Curtis

Warren Takeuchi

Linden Banks

Jack Anker

Anne-Simone

Leanne Adachi

Melanie Carr

Colin McCarlie

Jim May

Jana Sommers

Marti Baldecchi

Mark Levinson

Stephen Sommers

John Baldecchi

Laurence Mark

Howard Atherton

Bob Ducsay

John Wright

Mary Goldberg

Joseph A. Porro

Stephan Dupuis

Michael Kelem

Dylan Goss

Henry M. Lebo

Terry Calhoun

Saubrie Mohamed

Bradley S. Creasser

Marco Ciccone

Rusty Deluce

Bob Findlay

Patrick Stepien

Hugh Meikle

Paul Arnel

Timo Juonolainen

Benoît Lamarche

Dean Reca

Christian John Murray

Randy A. Jablonka

Larry Portmann

Isabelle MacCrimmon

Keith Brooks

Dan Yale

Joan Rowe

Sean Rowe

Doc Kane

Rob Young

Leslie Shatz

Tim Montijo

Greg Tsadilas

Steve Nichols

Tom St. Amand

William R. Wright

Glen Sylvester

Russell Earl

Tom Fejes

Susan Goldsmith

Patrick Neary

Ken Nielsen

Eddie Pasquarello

John Stillman

Michael Di Como

Richard Grandy

Francine Rokaw

Michael Bauer

Brian Adams

Jeffrey Arnold

Karl Fornander

Jep Hill

Rory Hinnen

Brian Leach

Tony Noel

Deborah Wiltman

Jen Howard

Kenneth Smith

Pat Turner

Craig Mullins

Doug Jones

Derrick Crane

Don Gray

Ray Cavalluzzi

Daryl Klein

Dan A. Walker

Duane Powell

Crystal Foth

Erika Wangberg Burton

Owen Walstrom

Darcy Davis

Julie Nelson

Holger Gross

Sandy Cochrane

Kevin Ishioka

Annmarie Corbett

Rose Marie McSherry

Donna Bis

Rosalina Da Silva

Sandi Tanaka

Nancy Ford

Gary Myers

Jan Kobylka

Craig Henderson

Lubor Cencak

Barry Kootchin

Luis G. Hoyos

Masako Masuda

Rick Willoughby

Patrick Dodd

Douglas Murray

Malcolm Fife

Tom E. Dahl

If the cash is there we do not care! What kind of life philosophy is that?

A gang of modern day pirates board a luxurious ocean liner intent on looting it of everything. However, once on board the liner appears to be deserted, all traces of human life seemingly vanished into thin air. Apparently some strange sea creatures have run amok and the pirates themselves are now next on the menu! 

"Deep Rising" doesn't have any delusion about what it wants to be, it was marketed as a raging "B" movie man versus beast gun fest, and that is exactly what it is - with tongue firmly in its bloody cheek. When the tag line reads "Full Scream Ahead" then you get the impression it's not a film to be remotely taken seriously. 

Written and directed by Stephen Sommers ("The Mummy"), "Deep Rising" is a blend of "Alien", "Poseidon Adventure" and "Under Siege", all built around the "Ten Little Indians" structure. Blood spurts and quips are dealt, and the film isn't found wanting in the good old "it's behind you" department. The cast give it the full gusto histrionics, Treat Williams, the sumptuous Famke Jansen (holding her own surrounded by hundreds of pounds of testosterone), Anthony Heald, Kevin J O'Connor, Wes Studi, Djimon Hounsou and, erm, Jason Flemyng also star. 

It's a mini riot out at sea, great great fun. 7/10

_**Big-budget ‘B’ adventure/horror on the high seas, but too cartoonish**_

A band of ruthless hijackers seize the world’s richest cruise ship in the South China Sea, but no one’s on board. Something mysterious & terrifying from the great depths got there before them. Treat Williams and Kevin J. O'Connor play the protagonists who inadvertently transport the hijackers while Famke Janssen plays a survivor on the vessel. Meanwhile Anthony Heald is on board as the shady owner of the ship and Wes Studi plays one of the key thugs. 	 

“Deep Rising” (1998) is an action/horror that mixes “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972) with “Alien Resurrection” (1997), but encumbers it with camp and a creature that does wildly unbelievable things. While the monster is interesting in some respects, it’s actually not original. It’s a glaring rip-off of the Celestial Man’s true form revealed in the 1974 issue of Marvel Comics’ The Defenders #14.  

Nevertheless this is a fun, thrilling adventure if you can roll with the above hitches. The cast is diverse and spirited. Yet this doesn’t change that it’s basically a B-type of dumb adventure/horror flick. It just cost 30 times as much as the usual B sci-fi and bombed at the box office. Meanwhile the feminine department is limited to Famke Janssen and she never did much for me (but she’s a’right), although Una Damon has a small role.  

The film runs 1 hour, 46 minutes.

GRADE: C

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After being hired by the rather unsavoury "Hanover" (Wes Studi), Treat Williams finds himself embroiled in the at-sea hijacking of what appears to be a broken down luxury liner. Thing is - where have all the passengers gone? Turns out that the would-be looters are about to become the hunted in this actually quite enjoyable sea creature escapade. As with so many of the films in this genre, I wanted the multi-tentacled beastie to win - all the way along. The characters - even the ones we are supposed to like - are all pretty shallow and frankly deserved any sticky ending coming their way. It features plenty of action, fireworks, loads of implausible scenarios and the odd bit of gore before an ending that was very much as expected. It is sustained to an extent by some decent production values, and the end-to-end nature of the action makes it quite a watchable, if entirely forgettable, maritime monster movie with some wonderful audio that sounds like a serious case of indigestion.

Deep Rising (1998) - Theatrical Trailer

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Treat Williams

Famke Janssen

Anthony Heald

Kevin J. O'Connor

Wes Studi

Derrick O'Connor

Jason Flemyng

Cliff Curtis

Clifton Powell

Trevor Goddard

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