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Dom Robinson reviews

Deep Rising

Full Scream Ahead !

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Deep Rising begins with Finnegan (Treat Williams), Pantucci (Kevin J. O'Connor) and their crew riding along the waves taking a bunch of bounty hunters, headed by Hanover (Wes Studi) and Mulligan (Jason Flemyng), towards the ocean liner Argonautica, which is out on its maiden voyage. What he finds out at the eleventh hour is that the passengers aren't the most friendly of people and are carrying nuclear warheads.

As for the liner itself, everything is going fine on its launch party, held by its creator Canton (Anthony Heald, looking the spitting image of a younger Nick Nolte) and its captain (Derrick O'Connor), until what feels like a massive crash sends the ship reeling, almost all of the passengers and crew end up in the drink without their lifejackets and it's feeding time courtesy of something very nasty out there.

Afterwards there appears to be only one passenger left, the gorgeous Trillian (Famke Janssen, Goldeneye's Xenia Onatopp) and it's every man and woman for themselves as they fight amongst each other and fight to stay alive.

What follows is over and hour-and-a-half of entertaining nonsense as good and bad guys get picked off one by one, accompanied by plenty of blood-splattering, a lot of swearing, a lot of firepower being used, some brilliant SFX, plenty of one-liners, angled camera shots that would be totally lost were this not being played out in widescreen and a lot more blood being splattered about, which seems rather excessive for a 15-certificate.

The picture quality is excellent. Anamorphic and free of artifacts, with the film itself presented in its original widescreen ratio of 2.35:1. The average bitrate is a middling 5.1Mb/s, briefly peaking over 9Mb/s.

The sound is disappointly Dolby Prologic, not Dolby Digital 5.1 like the American release. Aside from that though, this film is packed with surround sound moments including explosions, gore splatter and more explosions. Add to this a rousing score by Jerry Goldsmith.

Extras :

Chapters :

Like a lot of their recent discs, 12 chapters again and again EiV have provided approximate times for where the chapter breaks occur. This time they're only an hour ahead, but seem to have spawned timings down to 1/100ths of a second !?! Who's putting this stuff together? I wouldn't even have half-a-pint of what they're on! They're also based on the film being 106 mins long, just like Wild Things, when it's actually 102, so work that one out.

Languages & Subtitles :

English only in Dolby Surround but no subtitles.

Trailer/Featurette :

I've lumped these two together because they're practically identical. The latter is five seconds longer than the other and just replaces some of the trailer's footage with superfluous chat from cast and crew.

Menu :

The main menu is a silent and static affair with a deep blue background and weird pics of the two main leads. Options are available to select a scene, start the film or choose the "extra features".

Deep Rising is an entertaining piece of nonsense just like the more recent Deep Blue Sea. On the plus side we get an anamorphic transfer which they didn't get, but we lose out on a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. As for extras, they only had a trailer but we didn't get much more.

For anyone who likes a good piece of Friday night fun, this is the film for you, but whether you purchase this over the American release will depend on your TV and sound setup. 

FILM	 		: ****½
PICTURE QUALITY 	: *****
SOUND QUALITY		: ****
EXTRAS			: *
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OVERALL			: ***½

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

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