{"id":22083,"date":"2014-10-16T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22083"},"modified":"2016-08-22T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:40:38","slug":"deep-rising-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/16\/deep-rising-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Rising (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DeepRising\"<\/a>For a movie with so much story and set up, it\u2019s shocking how well \u201cDeep Rising\u201d comes together. Stephen Sommers is really committed to delivering a squared jawed hero with a lot of his action movies, and \u201cDeep Rising\u201d gives us Treat Williams in rare form. Director Sommers\u2019 B monster movie action flick is still a lot of fun, despite the aged special effects and slew of sub-plots, some of which are left unresolved. That said, \u201cDeep Rising\u201d has all the ingredients for a fun and raucous action horror film.<\/p>\n

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It has mercenaries, a giant monster, a band of pirates, a ton of gun fire, some gruesome gore, dark comedy and a touch of Lovecraft for good measure. Did I mention the kick ass surprise ending? Finnegan is the captain of a stealth boat that he uses for illegal and shifty jobs on the sea. He\u2019s been hired by a group of mercenaries to travel to the middle of the ocean for mysterious reasons. Meanwhile on the maiden voyage of the luxurious Argonautica, professional thief Trillian (gorgeous Famke Jannsen) has been caught attempting to steal jewels from the boat\u2019s wealthy clients. Little does the crew of the Argonautica know that they\u2019ve reached an uncharted part of the ocean, a part that happens to inhabit a vicious underwater monster prone to devouring its prey without mercy.<\/p>\n

All characters and sub-plots crash in to one another as fates meet, and all pirates, and criminals find themselves having to work together to fight off the Anaconda-like tendrils that are consuming everyone in its sight within the bowels of the yacht. Director Sommers really has his finger on the pulse of the movie, managing to balance dark comedy with genuine tension perfectly. You almost want to see what is boiling around this ship and why the monster within it is so anxious to eat humans, and how it goes about it. The movie lays in to the monster the more it progresses, revealing a vicious and really devious beast with a mouth that doesn\u2019t just devour its prey but inflicts immense pain as it swallows it whole.<\/p>\n

Much of what the monster is and where it\u2019s from is kept cleverly ambiguous and Sommers only explains enough of its elements for us to know that it\u2019s by no means friendly. Star Williams has a good time in the role of Finnegan, the unwilling victim of the criminals who is pushed in to the perilous situation, while Famke Jannsen is very attractive as the thief Trillian, who is full of surprises and holds her own in a movie filled with gun toting men. Sommers regular Kevin J. O’Connor also garners some laughs as Finnegan\u2019s mechanic who gets no end of torture from the other characters. \u201cDeep Rising\u201d is definitely Stephen Sommers\u2019 best melding of action and horror to date, and works as a slick one shot monster movie with a killer final scene that leaves the audience wanting more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a movie with so much story and set up, it\u2019s shocking how well \u201cDeep Rising\u201d comes together. Stephen Sommers is really committed to delivering a squared jawed hero with a lot of his action movies, and \u201cDeep Rising\u201d gives us Treat Williams in rare form. Director Sommers\u2019 B monster movie action flick is still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[58,71,219,240,249,349,391,412,477,703,778,906,1087],"class_list":["post-22083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-d","tag-fantasy","tag-gangster","tag-giant-monsters","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-pirates","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22085,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions\/22085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}