{"id":5903,"date":"2024-10-14T23:40:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2024-10-14T23:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:40:50","slug":"deep-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/14\/deep-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Deep Rising <\/strong>(1998)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hollywood\/Action-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 106 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sci-fi violence and gore, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Stephen Sommers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Stephen Sommers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Jerry Goldsmith\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Howard Atherton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: January 30, 1998 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O\u2019Connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O\u2019Connor, Jason Flemyng, Djimon Hounsou, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Trevor Goddard, Clint Curtis, Una Damon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $11.2M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0As all movie geeks know, 1989 was the year of \u201cThey Came from Beneath the Sea\u201d with three underwater terror flicks- DeepStar Six, Leviathan and The Abyss- splashing down in theaters within a twelve-month period. They were fine, but if you ask me, the coolest such flick is 1998\u2019s Deep Rising<\/strong>, a slick, well-oiled, action-horror machine that follows the grand tradition of silly Saturday afternoon B-movies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Written and directed by Stephen Sommers (1999\u2019s The Mummy), Deep Rising<\/strong> is a fun hybrid of action and horror. It stars Treat Williams (Prince of the City) as Finnegan, the captain of a small vessel hired to take a group to an undisclosed location in the middle of the South China Sea for unknown reasons. It soon becomes clear the men are mercenaries. It must be the torpedoes found by crew member Tooch (O\u2019Connor, Lord of Illusions) below deck. It turns out that Hanover (Studi, Dances with Wolves) and his guys intend to rob the passengers of a new luxury cruise ship, the Argonautica<\/em>. When they reach the ship, it\u2019s been abandoned. Shortly after a saboteur disables the navigation and communication systems, it\u2019s attacked by unseen creatures that leave behind a bloody mess. Only a few people remain on board including the ship\u2019s owner (Heald, The Silence of the Lambs) and international jewel thief Trillian (Janssen, GoldenEye). Once everybody realizes the situation they\u2019re in, they must work together to survive in order to get off the sinking ship. That is, if the monsters don\u2019t get them first.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I forgot how much I enjoyed Deep Rising<\/strong> until I popped in my DVD copy this past week. Now this is what a movie should be. Note that I said movie and not film. In my mind, a film is something like Citizen Kane, The Godfather or Cries and Whispers while a movie is pure entertainment like Aliens, Predator and Die Hard. Deep Rising<\/strong> gives you a lot of bang for your buck. It has mercenaries, big guns, a wise-cracking hero, a babe as tough as she is hot, a sleazy rich a-hole, expendable supporting characters, narrow escapes, an indoor jet-ski chase, sudden kills, gore, \u201cBOO!\u201d scenes and a huge scary monster. It\u2019s the kind of movie that brings out Movie Teen 24\/7.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Williams does his best Kurt Russell imitation as the hero of Deep Rising<\/strong> whose motto is \u201cIf the cash is there, we do not care.\u201d He\u2019s an opportunist forced by circumstances to assume the role of hero. It\u2019s a character we\u2019re all familiar with yet it\u2019s still cool. O\u2019Connor provides nice comic relief as Finnegan\u2019s sidekick, a goofball with mad engine skills. Janssen is seriously HOT as the character who adds a cool shot of estrogen to the testosterone cocktail. The supporting cast includes Derrick O\u2019Connor (Lethal Weapon 2), Jason Flemyng (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Cliff Curtis (Once Were Warriors) and Djimon Hounsou (Amistad). They all do solid work.<\/p>\n

\u00a0My only real complaint about Deep Rising<\/strong> has to do with the monster. It may look ugly and fierce, but it\u2019s also obviously CGI. As you all know, I\u2019m not a big fan. It takes away from the overall effect. HOWEVER, that it\u2019s designed by Rob Bottin (The Thing) makes a big difference. This guy has skills in that department. In general, the effects in Deep Rising<\/strong> are pretty good. It also has plenty of the red sticky stuff for all you gorehounds. Two of the best kills are the woman that gets pulled down a toilet by one of the tentacled beasts and the man who gets an axe buried in his skull. All I can say is \u201cSweet!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0The most important thing about Deep Rising<\/strong> is that it totally ROCKS! It\u2019s not perfect, but it\u2019s not a half-assed effort either. Everybody from the director to the cast give it their all. This is a no holds barred, full tilt boogie, balls to the wall action-horror flick. It\u2019s one of those \u201cwhat you see is what you get\u201d movies. It doesn\u2019t try to be anything more. It is what it is and it does it well. Strap in and enjoy the ride.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deep Rising (1998)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hollywood\/Action-Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 106 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sci-fi violence and gore, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Stephen Sommers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Stephen Sommers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Jerry Goldsmith\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Howard Atherton\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: January 30, 1998 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O\u2019Connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O\u2019Connor, Jason Flemyng, Djimon Hounsou, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Trevor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Deep-Rising-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}