not half as good as it looks

Rating: Null/10 (6 February 2001)

This movie could have been so much better. It's got cool ideas that are played out terribly. The dialogue and acting are real awful and it hurts the movie a great deal. It looked like it could have been more than just the latest "Deep Rising" and for a few minutes it seemed like it would be. Those minutes were when the visual atmosphere was shown with brilliant lighting and cool camera work. That's, unfortunately, the only thing this movie has going for it. Vin Diesel has a cool look to him, but even he can't handle such terrible dialogue and rework it. The creatures are nothing special at all and the plot really sucks. So the movie looks cool at first, but it grows old and there's nothing else there to back it up. Definately a lousy, disappointing film. A much cooler creature movie was Anaconda.