Deep Rising (1998)

Director:

Stephen Sommers

Writer (WGA):

Stephen Sommers (written by)

Release Date:

30 January 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

This ain't no pleasure cruise

Plot:

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.

Plot Keywords:

Ocean | Monster | Luxury | Ship | Hijacker

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Treat Williams	...	Finnegan
Famke Janssen	...	Trillian
Anthony Heald	...	Simon Canton
Kevin J. O'Connor	...	Joey Pantucci
Wes Studi	...	Hanover
Derrick O'Connor	...	Captain
Jason Flemyng	...	Mulligan
Cliff Curtis	...	Mamooli
Clifton Powell	...	Mason
Trevor Goddard	...	T. Ray
Djimon Hounsou	...	Vivo
Una Damon	...	Leila
Clint Curtis	...	Billy
Warren Takeuchi	...	Radar Man (as Warren T. Takeuchi)
Linden Banks	...	Communications Officer

Also Known As:

Tentacle (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for sci-fi violence and gore.

Runtime:

106 min | Germany:97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

Korean | English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | USA:R (certificate #35415) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (British Columbia) | Canada:PG (Alberta) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Belgium:KT | Chile:14 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Calimari Productions

Trivia:

Claire Forlani was cast as Trillian St. James. She even started shooting, but walked out after just three days, due to creative differences with director 'Stephen Sommers (I)'. The part subsequently went to Famke Janssen.

Goofs:

Factual errors: When the elevator falls, the actual amount of time it fell would have had it descending several thousand feet.

Quotes:

Finnegan: [First lines] How we doin' out there, Leila?
Leila: Fuck you! How you doing, my ass! I'm totally soaked out here.
Finnegan: Aw, come on now, I pay you two bucks a day, don't I?
Leila: Get off your lazy ass and come and help me!
Finnegan: Cut me some slack, will ya? I'm workin' hard too, you know.
[Plays card games on his radar computer]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Final Voyage (1999)

Soundtrack:

Garota de Ipanema

This is a GOOD movie. It does not deserve a 5.4

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

Treat Williams and Kevin J. O'Connor in particular are very good.

It's a low budget genre flick, but acting is excellent across the board. O'Connor is great comic relief. The monster is clichéd, but cool. Quality and care went into this movie across the board.

I definitely recommend this movie without reservation.

I've seen it several times on cable as well as originally on DVD, and my opinion of it has held up.

Wes Studi (never bad in anything), Djimon Hounsou, and Anthony Heald (the psychologist from Silence of the Lambs) as bad guys and Anthony Heald are very competent as well.

I just can't understand how this movie got only a 5.4 from users.