Fair, sustaining, yet ultimately empty movie

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2000)

When I left the theatre after watching this movie, I wasn't really sure what to think. Yes, I was reasonably entertained by the film, and drawn in by the pedestrian, if not effective, use of suspense. However, what did I spend my time in the theatre watching? Ultimately, not much. This film is very, very thin on plot in the second half, and it felt like one scene after another was just more of the same stuff- either there's something wrong with the sub, or it's being attacked, or there's some unruly crew member that has to be dealt with. And the characters don't help things out much- most of them seem to be either cardboard cutouts, or indistinct from one another. This is a film that had a good deal of entertainment to it on the surface, but very little substance inside.