A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
This was James Cameron's 4th major feature that he directed and I remember watching it when it first came out. As a lover of Sci Fi the idea of finding aliens deep beneath the oceans surface was mesmerising.
The story is immersive as there's 3 going on at the same time. There's the husband/wife conflict between Ed Harris's 'Bud' Brigman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's Lindsey Brigman. That story runs through the film and is deftly developed by the director and the two actors and it's a pleasure to watch.
Then there's the military element which moves away from a sunken submarine and moves into a race to nuke the Russians suspected to have sunk the sub and were coming for them. That story also had traction even though it was clearly a fantasy of the deranged Lew Finler played by Captain Kidd Brewer Jr.
The third story was of course the alien creatures which at first were thought to be bioluminescent sea creatures, but which turned out to be alien species. Anyone familiar with Cameron's films can zero in on the military dynamic, the love dynamic, and also the insanely colourful aquatic dynamic which repeat in many Cameron films, such as Aliens, Titanic and Avatar.
Put together it was a great story not without it's faults and goofs, but everyone tried hard and the film was great to watch and here I am 35 years later still watching it again for the umpteenth time.
If you want a great action/Sci Fi/romance night in you can do a lot worse than this film.
This was James Cameron's 4th major feature that he directed and I remember watching it when it first came out. As a lover of Sci Fi the idea of finding aliens deep beneath the oceans surface was mesmerising.
The story is immersive as there's 3 going on at the same time. There's the husband/wife conflict between Ed Harris's 'Bud' Brigman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's Lindsey Brigman. That story runs through the film and is deftly developed by the director and the two actors and it's a pleasure to watch.
Then there's the military element which moves away from a sunken submarine and moves into a race to nuke the Russians suspected to have sunk the sub and were coming for them. That story also had traction even though it was clearly a fantasy of the deranged Lew Finler played by Captain Kidd Brewer Jr.
The third story was of course the alien creatures which at first were thought to be bioluminescent sea creatures, but which turned out to be alien species. Anyone familiar with Cameron's films can zero in on the military dynamic, the love dynamic, and also the insanely colourful aquatic dynamic which repeat in many Cameron films, such as Aliens, Titanic and Avatar.
Put together it was a great story not without it's faults and goofs, but everyone tried hard and the film was great to watch and here I am 35 years later still watching it again for the umpteenth time.
If you want a great action/Sci Fi/romance night in you can do a lot worse than this film.