Weird, but worth seeing

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 2003)

This is one strange movie, I think it could be placed in the Avant-Garde genre. It consists of two freedivers and a ditzy girlfriend, well played by Roseanna Arquette. The version I got was the directors cut which ran about 3 hours, and seemed a little too long, but it was still a watchable film, especially for the breathtaking underwater shots. This film is often considered a turkey in the U.S., but it's really not bad at all, I think many critics expected too much. Griffin Dunne, who starred in "After Hours"(1985), with Arquette has a brief, almost useless cameo as her boss. This film is a difficult one to find, I had been looking for it for quite a while, and I was shocked to find it in the $3.00 bin at Wal-Mart. A unique experience. ***1/2 out of *****.