Deep Rising
(1998)
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Aboard the luxury liner Argonautica, a mysterious and deadly presence makes mincemeat of vacationing passengers, leaving only a handful of terrified survivors adrift at sea. Enter a mercenary sailor and his crew, who board the ship in hopes of pilfering its riches--but instead find themselves the strange monster's next prey. Goofy fun from the director of THE MUMMY. |
Tremors meets Titanic in this dopey sea-monster movie from director Stephen Sommers. It's a tepid horror tale in which a hi-tech pleasure cruiser on its maiden voyage is overrun by modern-day pirates, then attacked by a multi-tentacled, Hydra-like creature. The film navigates an ocean of hilarious monster-movie clichés and derivative special-effects sequences, while Treat Williams does a poor Kurt Russell impression and Famke Janssen lets her wet T-shirt do the acting. This gruesome fantasy doesn't skimp on memorably tacky death scenes (a victim sucked through a toilet!), but it's sadly all at sea in terms of coherence and credibility.