WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

arikson415 The diologue proves this movie doesn't take itself too seriously...I hope. It's slightly better than a SYFY Channel movie and that's partly because you can recognize some of the poor actors. The special effects are, well special and the creature is very reminiscent of everything including Aliens. Five Stars because this may have been the birth of Famke Janssen's action career.

sfisher71 I *adore* terrible movies, even without Crowe, Servo, and Joel dishing out the quips. There's a list of movies I simply adore at least in part BECAUSE they're so terrible -- "Reptilicus" is one such, a film so bad that apparently merely to MENTION it in Denmark requires the one who Speaks Its Name to buy a case of beer for everyone in earshot.However, the ne plus ultra, the sine qua non, the crème de la crème, the (insert pretentious foreign phrase of choice here) of terrible movies for me is "Deep Rising." While it could have used, in my humble opinion, more scenes of Famke Janssen changing clothes ("She's naked during the entire picture!" "She is NUDE in once scene!" "Depends how you watch it" --"Coupling"), the premise is choice: world's largest luxury liner is scheduled for paramilitary attack, but the attackers soon discover the liner has been taken over by Giant Vampire Squid From The Bottom Of The Sea. Treat Williams, as the Harry Morgan (the one from Hemingsay, not the one from M*A*S*H) wannabe whose boat is first hired, then hijacked (hirejacked?) by said paramilitarians, skirts on the edge of tongue in cheek, but his supporting cast play it almost completely deadpan. Anthony Heald, an actor I've seen in person more than once (he was stunning in "Equivocation," at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival), is simply far too good to be in a picture this crappy, but as he told a friend of mine in Ashland once, he has children to put through college. Kevin O'Conner (the annoying guy who gets eaten by scarabs at the end of the first "Mummy" pic) plays the annoying sidekick but one with heart, and he's brilliant. The head villain, played by Wes Studi (The Sphinx in "Mystery Men"), is as hard-bitten and stone-faced as they come, and his gang of hired mercenaries are evil enough to deserve their come-uppance at the hands, er, tentacles of the aforementioned vampire squid, one by one.It's a film I've probably seen half a dozen times, on late-night cable, and would watch again right now, preferably with a platter of calamari and a bottle of Beaujolais -- violating the white-wine- with-seafood rule because Beaujolais goes with everything, and you need a lot of red with your tentacles just to achieve parity with this picture.

SnoopyStyle Mercenaries led by Hanover (Wes Studi) hire John Finnegan (Treat Williams)'s boat whose motto is "When the cash is there, we do not care." Finnegan finds out that they're carrying torpedoes and they are tracking a luxury liner. The cruise ship Argonautica is on her maiden voyage which is owned by Simon Canton (Anthony Heald). Trillian (Famke Janssen) is a thief looking to make a score. The ship is attacked by some unknown force from below. By the time Hanover and his men board the ship, it seems to be empty with blood everywhere.It's a monster movie. The problem is that I don't care about most of these characters so I couldn't care less when one of them bites it. It's got some monster fun and shoot them up fun. It's a slick bigger budget action monster B-movie. However, it all feels a little pointless.

Ruairidh MacVeigh I remember seeing the promos for this movie saying this was the scariest thing since Tremors, so naturally I had to give it a watch......and boy was it a letdown!So what's the banana? Out on its maiden voyage, the Cruise Ship Argonautica and its passengers celebrate with an evening party, only for the vessel to be abruptly plunged into darkness. Meanwhile, a Captain named Finnegan, who's piloting a boat with a compliment of Mercenaries, is taken captive by them, revealing themselves to be in actuality Pirates who intend to rob the Argonautica of all its riches and sink it. Upon reaching the blacked out liner, they discover all but a handful of people have been killed by an unforeseen tentacled creature, that's infested the ship's ventilation system and can strike without warning. What follows is a desperate fight to survive about the stricken vessel, whilst also partaking in a clumsy collection of stupid plots and conflicting story lines that make you more and more confused.Okay, what's so bad about this film? The acting for starters, which is very cheesy and over the top. I would like to think that this is similar to Tremors in that it's a satire of what people would act like in such a horrific situation, but this is meant to be taken seriously, and with these performances... no.Next, the CGI, which is so laughably poor and fake looking you'd think it was just hashed together in 20 minutes on Flash Studio. It's pixelated, the creatures never look convincing, and it really is very dated.Next up, the story, which, as mentioned, is very confusing. If it was simply just a basic plot about a rescue ship sent out to find a stricken cruise liner, only to come across a vessel filled with horrible monsters, that would make for a gripping adventure/horror story. Instead, we have pirates, crossed with an insurance scandal, crossed with another thief who's already on the ship, crossed with implausible attempts to resolve the problem, and with the movie ending on probably the lowest point you could. I won't give it away but it really is undeniably stupid.So, to sum up, this movie is very, very bad, in more ways than one. The CGI is bad, the story is bad, the acting is bad, aside from a few jump-scares it's not that frightening, and when you do finally get to see the monster, you never thought you'd be laughing at the end of this movie! I certainly was, it was really bad!