Deep Rising

Plot synopsis:
Amidst a storm, Finnegan (Treat Williams) and his crew, Joey (Kevin J. O'Connor) and Leila, are hired by a group of mercenaries led by Hanover (Wes Studi) to pilot their boat across the South China Sea to an undisclosed location in the middle of the ocean. Meanwhile, the luxury cruise ship Argonautica, the brainchild of Simon Canton (Anthony Heald), is undertaking its maiden voyage, when a saboteur disables the ship's navigation and communication systems. A large object rises from beneath and collides with the vessel, leaving it dead in the water, while the panicking passengers are attacked by unseen creatures.
Finnegan's boat collides with a speedboat shaken loose during he collision, at which point the mercenaries take over and reveal they intend to rob the ship's vault and passengers, before sinking it with torpedoes. The crew transfer over to the ship, leaving Leila and a mercenary behind to repair the boat, where they are both killed. The boarding party find only blood and no sign of any of the passengers. Finnegan and Joey are forced down into the engine room to scavenge parts to repair their vessel’s engines, under guard of two mercenaries who are both killed; as they are escaping, they run into Trillian (Famke Janssen), a passenger who was imprisoned for stealing. Hanover's group opens the vault to find Canton, Captain Atherton and three other passengers hiding and they explain that the ship was attacked by unknown creatures that killed everyone else on board.
After questioning, Canton is found to be responsible for the ship's sabotage after having realised he created an unprofitable vessel, and hired the mercenaries to sink the ship so that he could collect on the insurance. The group is attacked by the creatures, revealed to be giant spike-covered tentacles, which eat Captain Atherton. Canton theorises that the creatures are an extreme evolution of the Ottoia which liquefy their victims and then eject the carcass. With the rest of the mercenaries being killed, the survivors are herded towards the bow, where they find a "feeding room" full of skeletal remains. The creatures break through the hull, flooding the lower decks and separating the survivors. Hanover tries to sacrifice Joey to save himself, but is instead eaten himself.
Finnegan and Joey spot an island in the distance and make it back to Finnegan's boat, but they have lost their engine parts, rendering it useless as a means of escape. They instead set the boat's autopilot to crash into the Argonautica and detonate the mercenaries' torpedoes. As Finnegan and Trillian find jet skis they can use to reach the island, the tentacles smash through the main deck, revealed to be part of a single giant creature. Finnegan discovers Joey has gone missing, leaving him and Trillian to escape while being pursued by the creature. Canton jumps onto Finnegan's boat, but is unable to disable the autopilot, causing it to crash into the Argonautica, destroying both ships and killing Canton and the creature. Finnegan and Trillian reach the nearby jungle-filled island where they are reunited with Joey, who survived the ordeal and paddled ashore using Finnegan's surfboard. As the three relax, a loud roar echoes from the forest and something huge crashes toward them through the trees. As the camera pulls back, the island is revealed to be primordial, with an erupting volcano, and Finnegan is heard saying his movie catch phrase, "Now what?!", as the film ends.

Tags: violence, suspenseful, comedy, romantic

Review:
Deep Rising had all these things.3)	Citizen Kane: A worthy try, but in the end Orson Welles decision to omit massive underwater squid monsters, left this film floundering.
Again, Deep Rising excels.The sad thing is that if the Colour Purple had included a raid on a sinking cruise liner, infested with sub aqua monsters as part of the film, then it too would have climbed to the top of my favourite movie list.
Eh, there's been better...But the effects are good, the characters are likable, the creature is neat, and somehow it all comes comes together to make an enjoyable B schlock horror/comedy that, in my case anyway, leaves me with a big smile on my face.Oh and as an added bonus, Famke Janssen is simply lovely in this film.
There are times when nothing satisfies like a good ol' B-movie action-adventure, not meant to be deep or serious, just good excitement and fun.
Unlike a lot of monster and sci-fi movies we see these days, where apologizes are constantly made and everything is politically-correct, Deep Rising is an unapolagetic rollar-coaster which only asks us to suspend our higher thinking for an hour and a half.
Intelligent by no means, Stephen Sommers' movie however definately succeeds in it's intention, which is to be a straight fun adventure.Like the rest of the movie, we've seen the plot a dozen times before in different or similar forms.
The two most interesting characters are Treat Williams, a third rate Bruce Willis-Mel Gibson, who nevertheless puts a likeable effort into the main hero, and the mind-numbingly beautiful Famke Jannkson as a thief the crew finds alive aboard the cruise liner.Deep Rising is a movie that knows what it wants to do, and does it well, adding some originality and excitement to a genre overflowing with badly-executed ideas and ameatuerish directing.I give Deep Rising a 6 out of 10, and I'd reccomend it to any fan of grade-B horror movies or anyone who enjoyed the 1999 remake of The Mummy..
Underrated best monster horror scary action movie flick ever made!.
Deep Rising (1998) for me is one of the best underrated monster horror movie from the 90's!!
So if you just want to watch a fun gory movie where there are good guys, bad guys, the pretty woman thrown in and a monster.
Deep Rising is what you classify as great monster movie, with a story that's all too clear and characters that'll make you wonder what'd happen if they were in Aliens.
I'm disappointed it never had a sequel though.Deep Rising is a 1998 American action horror film directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen and Anthony Heald.
This one has everything that you any sensible person would try to avoid in a film; cardboard characters, more clichés than I thought would be possible to actually cram into a mere two hours, horrible(and I DO mean HORRIBLE) one-liners, zero acting talent, lousy, obvious special effects, etc.
This isn't so bad it's good, it's so bad it's f*****g awful.The first alarm bells rang for me before I watched a single scene, the film is preceded by an on screen blurb informing the viewer that parts of the ocean are pretty deep and have never been explored, or something similar.It's never a good sign when this occurs in a horror or action movie, especially one as cheerfully stupid as this one.
The acting is just awful, like they are rehearsing and the director said "that'll do", but in a half-hearted defense of the actors I must say that when you have to make ludicrously cheesy dialogue and try to sell crap jokes I might coast too.At one point a character is identified as an Australian, (I am also Australian), but in the next scene I could no longer work out which one was Australian as none of the team used even a vaguely recognizable Aussie accent.In the first scene involving the mercenaries, full of just pointlessly fake macho dialogue, I was able for the first time to differentiate between B movie actors and B grade actors.
Famke is able to once again MacGyver herself out of the storeroom by cutting all the wires on the security system at once, just like the pros do it!Then we finally see the "something" - is under-underwhelming a word?In one supposedly tense scene our heroes are running away from the massive squidy grooblers, but decide that they have time for a calm composed chat in an open hallway; I'd laugh but I was too busy crying.The comic relief is provided by the ship's engineer, who whines his way through the movie sounding like the Squeaky Voiced Teen from The Simpsons and spits out lame joke after lame joke, in the latter stages he is shot in the leg and just spends the remainder of his scenes limping mildly.
The ending comes far too late for my liking and predictably enough is worse than your average sit-com, where someone cracks a bad joke and they freeze frame on fake laughter.I have read recently that changing a director can have a radical impact on the finished film but I don't usually think too much about such things, here though is a case where I am positive that 75 other directors could come up with a far superior picture using the same basic material.
A quick check on IMDb shows me the same guy made Van Helsing, another laughable effort, notable only for Kate Beckinsale wearing tight pants.The director blatantly ripped ideas and scenes from Die Hard 2, Alien, Predator, Alien: Resurrection, Tremors and Anaconda and even the worst of these (that would be Alien 4) is several times better than Deep Rising.
OK, they really did their best to make the sea monster look scary and I admit that it looks quite nice, but as I already mentioned in other reviews: A movie needs more than just special effects!
I've got very little love for The Mummy and Van Helsing, director Stephen Sommers' slick, big-budget, digital effects-filled popcorn monster movie blockbusters, but his earlier creature-feature Deep Rising is a far more worthy effort, despite being just as polished, just as tongue-in-cheek and just as crammed with CGI.That's because, unlike The Mummy and Van Helsing, this one hasn't had its horror elements watered down for family consumption in the multiplex: its rapacious, flesh hungry monster from the depths of the ocean is seriously nasty and makes a real mess when it feeds.
Kiddie-friendly this movie ain't!The plot is as clichéd as it could get—a group of mercenaries hijack a cruise ship only to find that it is infested by man-eating tentacled beasties from the sea bed—and logic plays very little part in matters, but with energetic performances from a game cast, an impressive critter (a mass of writhing tentacles with a mouth full of needle sharp gnashers), lots of guns and explosions, and plenty of yucky bodily remains littered all over the ship, this is still one hell of a fun ride..
Not a total waste of time, then.It's quite difficult to think that Stephen Sommers followed "Deep Rising" with the two "Mummy" features which I consider to be pure popcorn entertainment at its best.
Ever since I saw 'The Mummy',I have become a die-hard fan of Stephen Sommers,and in this movie he once again proves himself to be a master of the genre of sci-fi action adventure.Treat Williams plays a captain of a small vessel which is hired by a gang of mercenaries to transport them to an undisclosed location.Little does Williams know that the gang intends to board a huge(an understatement,actually,this ship is gigantic !)luxury liner called the Argonautica and hold its crew to ransom.The bloodcurdling surprise comes when they reach the ship and discover that no one is alive,save the beautiful Trillian,played by Famke Janssen.Things become even more scary as they discover dozens of half-eaten bodies,and a couple of half-dead ones.However,everything gets out of control when the giant octopus,the monster responsible for devouring all the passengers and crew of the Argonautica,finally appears,unleashing hell upon the new members on board.The octopus is unquestionably the biggest I have seen in a sci-fi movie,and the special effects guys have done perhaps too good a job with the semi-alive,half eaten survivors.That actually makes this a regular horror film,and certainly not the one you'd conveniently watch over dinner .The plot will undoubtedly draw comparisons with " Anaconda".But the difference here is that we get to see a lot of the bad guys becoming octopus lunch,instead of the pitiful deaths of innocent people in ' Anaconda'.As for the cast,Treat Williams seems ill at ease playing his role,while Famke Jansen as the jewel thief Trillian couldn't be more ravishing.Kevin J.O'Connor as Williams' faithful sidekick provides the only comic relief to an otherwise humorless script,so uncharacteristic of Sommers.This is first class sci-fi fare from start to finish..
The 100 % CGI Creature looks like it came from a bad video game and doesn't blend in with the rest of the movie at ALL (especially when it's combined in scenes with human actors).
And "Deep Rising" is still a hell of a fun big action horror flick that still managed to entertain me throughout just like it did back in the day.
So when I got the chance to sit down and watch it again in 2017, I did of course jump at the chance to do so.Memory did serve me well, because "Deep Rising" really was and still is a rather entertaining movie, and one that actually still is capable of standing up to movies made even today.The effects in the movie are surprisingly good, especially when taking into consideration that the movie is from 1998.
Wríter and director Stephen Sommers did manage to put together a very entertaining movie and one that has a lot of replay value.For a movie back from 1998 then the cast list really does have some familiar names and faces to it; Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J.
O'Connor in the role of Joey Pantucci who stole the spotlight in this movie.I found the movie to be entertaining from beginning to end, and there is a great level of action and fast pace to the movie which never loses momentum.The only real bad thing about the movie was the ending, which was just about as anti-climatic as it could possibly be, not to mention also incredibly ludicrous and stupid.All in all, "Deep Rising" is a great movie if you enjoy creature features and things with tentacles.
"Deep Rising" is not meant to be taken the least bit seriously unlike other creature features like the Alien films and Pitch Black (which I very much highly recommend you watch).
The 50 million dollar budget is large (especially for a campy action/horror film) and all the special effects are put to good use.
Rob Bottin, noted for the gory effects in The Thing, succeeds again though the creation in this film may not be as well remembered as some of his other works.The film overall, is very entertaining and the two problems I had with it was that I wish we could've seen the massacre but that leads to my other problem, it was a pretty long movie, but it was awesome non the less.
As it stands DEEP RISING is the zenith of Sommers career and is probably the only film by this director that's worth going out of your way to see To give some credit to Sommers a story featuring desperate modern day pirates and other dodgy characters as protagonists should be something of a turn off and while they're not exactly contenders for a UN humanitarian award the audience do feel some empathy for these dubious people .
But again since the monsters have been kept back until relatively late in the narrative this doesn't undermine the film unlike THE MUMMY RETURNS which is one poor CGI effect after another DEEP RISING is very much a traditional horror movie .
His early movies were mainly family entertainment, but for his first R-rated feature he delivers a monster movie on a cruise ship that could have been spectacular, but isn't.The story has boat-for-hire Captain Treat Williams (imagine Colin Farrell's dad) drive a bunch of mercenary goons out to a rendezvous with the Argonautica luxury ship in the South China Sea. The goons plan to loot the ship and sink it, but when they hop aboard they find it abandoned with all lifeboats intact.
Treat Williams, tough mercenaries, monsters, a heist, awesome weapons, that funny weird guy, a "Carter Burke", Famke, Damon, Wes Studi, a jet ski scene and a hot Korean chick.......the only thing missing is a lightsaber battle.I love crazy movies like this that take all kinds of wild elements and just somehow come together.
Never Claimed to be Art. This movie is exactly what it looks like; a cheesy b-grade horror-sci-fi film.
Sea monsters in general seem cheesy to me, and the addition of Treat Williams ("Dead Heat") to the cast makes it seem like the intention was to have a sort of throwback to a time when bad one-liners could sell a film.
The special effects and computer-generated monster aren't the greatest, but a lot better than I've seen in other action/fantasy films (this means you, "Van Helsing").
Some dialogs that are simply hilarious (because they're so typical!!), characters that are so stereotyped and the usual situations of this kind of films.The digital effects are not that bad and it's always a pleasure to see Famke Janssen.Barely entertaining.*My rate: 4/10------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------- -------------------.
The result is a claustrophobic presentation of action/thrills/and horror.Yet despite all of these flaws (and there are many!) the film manages to remain entertaining on some level;- you know whats going to happen and you know how its going to happen and there is a good chance you also know who it is going to happen to- the entertainment is in watching it happen to make what you thought correct.The film's saving grace is Famke Janssen as the only female we see for most of the movie in what is mostly a testosterone fuelled affair.
Other than she, the other saving grace is some pretty good special effects and the fact that the film can be watched over and over again, no matter how bad it is and still make you laugh (perhaps at the frivolity of it!).Deep Rising is one of those films which will most likely be shown on TV at about midnight (as it has been each of the 11 times I've watched it).
It certainly beats the crap out of Independence Day, Underworld, Queen of the Damned and a bunch of other films that aim to be A movies.The cast is rather likable, with often funny dialog, it makes one wish Treat Williams was given better and more frequent roles.
Deep Rising falls somewhere in the middle, but definitely on the "more good than bad" side.It doesn't take itself seriously, there's precious little character development, and the CGI is a bit ropey in places.
Despite this, it succeeds at entertaining mainly through the likeability of its main characters - Treat Williams, Famke Jansen, Kevin O'Connor and a host of others whom people will recall seeing "someplace" before, but not remember where.The action is fairly non-stop and silly, but stops short of Van Helsing's ridiculous cartoonish-ness.
Nobody sucks and it genuinely looks like they had a good time making the movie.It's not as good as Sommers' now classic The Mummy, but I'd rate it at least as enjoyable as The Mummy Returns (though without the hideous CGI "end-of-level" monster - so maybe it's a little better) and of course, Deep Rising is much better than Van Helsing.What this has taught me is that Sommers can produce some rip-roaring adventure movies, but he must maintain the focus on the story and not get overly ambitious, and not rely on CGI to cover his ass.
Treat Williams, Kevin O'Connor, Brendan Fraser and others are just the sort of actor he should keep to when making these sorts of movies - in other words, actors who don't take themselves too seriously when in such roles.In summary then, Deep Rising is entertaining stuff.
If you are looking for an action/adventure/horror film that has little sense and lots of special effects and self-effacing humour, then look no farther than Deep Rising.
Made in the same vein as TREMORS and TREMORS II (a vastly underrated film), it contains very good acting (especially by Kevin O'Conner, who was the best part of the incredibly overrated THE MUMMY) a good amount of humor and action, some actually thought provoking scenes, a good role for Treat Williams, a vastly underrated actor ( see:PRINCE OF THE CITY) and a reasonably good monster (not the best, but for a 'B' movie, relatively well done).
the man is a special actor who delivers pivotal movie lines like no one else.the deep will continue to rise..
A handful may survive.What makes a monster movie stand out, then, is characters and pace - and Deep Rising delivers in spades.
Treat Williams and Famke Janssen provide some of the best work of their careers.The film has a high enough budget that the creatures look really good - actually super creepy - and there's plenty of gore and impractically flashy sci-fi guns.It's not an Oscar winner, but I own it on both VHS and DVD.
When i first saw the making of Deep Rising, i knew it was going to be a sea monster film which i love.
If your looking for a decent movie with good action and great comedy to go with it, give this B+ flick a try..
DEEP RISING is easily one of the best action/adventure films I have ever seen.
I'm a huge fan of monster movies and action pictures, so to see a film that combined the two so seamlessly and inventively was a treat.
Stephen Sommers's Deep Rising is some of the most fun you'll have watching an overblown action horror spectacle, if that's your type of thing.