Following in the reptilian slime trail of Anaconda, this derivative monster movie from early 1998 plays like a cross between Titanic and Tremors, with parts of Aliens tossed in for good measure. Director Stephen Sommers couldn't recognise an original idea if it swallowed him whole--which, by the way, is exactly what happens to a lot of passengers on a luxury ship that is attacked by a giant serpent-like sea creature with a voracious appetite for human flesh. Treat Williams plays the leader of a mercenary crew whose members discover the ravaged ship and wage war on... the creature; Famke Janssen joins him as an onboard thief and con artist who just happens to be highly skilled with automatic weapons. Of course, the action grows more intense as the body count rises and along the way the monster is gradually revealed in all of its gruesome glory. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Deep Rising arrived in cinemas shortly after another waterlogged thriller, Hard Rain and if nothing else it provides proof that the B-movie monsters of the 1950s are alive and well and as cheesy as ever in the age of digital special effects. --Jeff Shannon [show more]
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Pilot-for-hire John Finnegan (Treat Williams) is transporting a group of hijackers to the South China Sea. There they have been commissioned to blow up the luxury liner 'Argonautica' with missiles supplied by its owner, Simon Canton (Anthony Heald), so that he can collect the insurance. However, the ship has already been attacked by a deadly sea monster, and only a handful of survivors, including Canton and jewel thief Trillian (Famke Janssen), remain. The hijackers and Finnegan board the ship to pick them up and obtain some machine parts required to repair their own craft, but soon they too are being picked off one by one.
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