Deep Blue Sea Meets Lost in Space

Rating: 6/10 (5 March 2000)

To cut a long story short, this is an OK rental flick, not, in my opinion worth seeing at the movies.
Seriously if you loved deep blue sea, you'll probably go for this one too. Whilst some of the direction and plot had originality to it, and the characters were mostly watchable (Vin Diesel notably), I was disappointed that the story which starts out so promisingly in terms of its sense of danger and eerieeness, decays so easily into yer average monster shoot-em-up flick.
SEMI-SPOLIERS - It would have been great if the monsters were much more insiduous, intelligent and scheming as a collective in their dealings with the poor trapped humans. That is most significantly why the Alien flicks are truly terrifying and this is just average.
It would have been really entertaining if the pitch black of the title led to some greater unseen evil-from-within kinda of thing, but as it is once you've seen the monsters, that's all there is to it.
5/10