Deep Rising (1998)
Directed by Stephen Sommers
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.
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There is a precedent for this kind of character (consider Kevin J. O’Connor’s role as the plucky sidekick in Deep Rising ), but Underwater is not a tongue-in-cheek film.
Underwater harkens back to such movies as Alien, The Abyss and Deep Rising, and it made me think fondly back to those titles.
On a scale of The Rift to DeepStar Six to Leviathan to The Abyss , I’d say Underwater is more like an Alien -infused Deep Rising more than it is anything else.
Yet the intermittent sequences of alien-like interference plague the otherwise sensible scares (and the abundance of swift jump scares); nothing works against the engaging costume designs, the low visibility and flashing warning lights, and the menace of looming death like unconvincing monsters (wandering down the path of films like “Leviathan,” “Deep Rising,” and “DeepStar Six”).
El secreto de este éxito hay que buscarlo en la ausencia absoluta de cualquier ínfula de trascendencia y en su entregada apuesta por la peripecia "con monstruo", que nos remite (sin avergonzarse de ello) a gozosos terrores noventeros como Horizonte final (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997), The Relic (Peter Hyams, 1997) o Deep Rising (Stephen Somers, 1998).
Ann and her crew run into nasties both big and small, from T. Rexes to the largest bugs you can imagine (fans of Stephen Sommers’ only good movie, “Deep Rising,” will enjoy one scene in particular).
Almost every 90’s monster flick can be traced to the archetype, from Mimic to Deep Rising and even to the 1998 remake of Godzilla.
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By the end of the film, when Hellboy is duking it out with a Lovecraftian beast of the multi-tentacled variety, the scenes are no different than those in dozens of its predecessors, from "Deep Rising" to the Mines of Moria sequence in "The Fellowship of the Ring."
Since there really isn't anything new to be done with this type of movie, and thus, they almost always end up being a bore (see 1998's "Deep Rising" and 1999's "Virus"), "Deep Blue Sea" demonstrates that any film's success depends solely on its treatment and expertise, which Harlin has always been known for.