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The acting is Good the1 special of facts Are state of the Art including near he end what probably is the most stunning effect you la see this year and the photography is super. What gets lost along the Way however h the Story. The scenario involves a nuclear sub armed with Trident missiles that encounters a weird undersea i. Thi presence knocks out ill Power on the sub and sends it trashing into tin1 Side of a Canyon that s two Ami a half mile deep. Hit sub comes id rest unti ledge. The Navy thinks it would Loo Long in go its in n re lie assets to the scene soil enlists the Aid of a Oil company that has .1 m � drilling Rig named dec Core set up not fat .iw.iy. Deep Ore. Whose Crew is led by Bud bring in Icil i Larrisia Lowed to the sub where the company s submersible and remotely piloted vehicles can be u a to Check out the i rippled vessel. Things quickly gel complicated. Rigman is none Loo pleased to have his wife Lindsey Mary Elizabeth Masiran Loni othe Engineer who designed deep Ore along for this Salvage ride since they in going through an acrimonious split. The Navy has assigned a team of seals to the Mission and the Leader it. Coffey Michael Biehn promoted since his last appearance As Cpl. Hicks in men quickly succumbs to High pressure nervous syndrome and begins worshipping a Trident warhead. Meanwhile a Hurricane rages on the surface culling Oil communications. And. Last but not least the cast emotion Luis fantastic life forms called nits for non Terru Strul intelligent e living deep in the Anyon. I hit re a 10 in tween . Anil a psychedelic jellyfish. The problem is that All these angles get equal final Kim is this a Story about the relationship the in is the nuclear sub Mil the warheads the psychotic Coffey Cameron can argue that it s supposed to be about All Thom things but that s precisely the film s failing. In Alii m. No Mailer what else was happening the focus stayed on the aliens onslaught. In , no matter what else was happening the foe us stayed on the rampaging cyborg. There is no such element Here with enough weight to serve As that kind of Anchor. This is a technically Well crafted film but Cameron comes up Short by trying to cram in too Many dissonant subplots. As much As i had hoped to rave about it i can t give the abyss Mote than two and a half stars. So Ripe mjg Ine 23
