Sphere Video Review. Action lovers will be bored by what they will see as an interminably boring setup. Attempts at characterization fall apart. Intelligent writing, which is evident early on, is replaced by hackneyed drivel.
Special effects take over as the plot-line devolves into incoherent silliness.
But all that is just in preparation for the ending, which is inexcusably awful. This is the time-honored deus ex machina device used to its worst effect. I left the theater feeling cheated by the way Crichton and his screenwriters had chosen to end the film. There is some promise, but it's all in the setup. Together, the five descend into the bowels of the ocean, where they rendezvous with a temporary sea base on the ocean floor from which they will attempt to make first contact.