This combination of a family drama, or more accurately, a broken family drama and a disaster movie only works in fits and starts and all of its assets are when in disaster mode. The tall tale of a town that is rapidly sinking due to mines underneath has some exciting, though sometimes preposterous, action scenes that constantly kept reminding me of The Poseidon Adventure even though there is not a boat in sight. It just had that same feel of people's personal dramas intertwined with various individuals escaping just in the nick of time. The broken family drama is a bore, though a few of the actors are not bad in particular Tuva Novotny & Kardo Razzazi. Decent production values help, but the weak ending doesn't.
Review of The Abyss
