Directed by:
Peter YatesCinematography:
Christopher ChallisComposer:
John BarryCast:
Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams, Earl Maynard, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, Robert Tessier, Peter Benchley, Bob MinorPlots(1)
The Deep is a lavish, suspense-filled adventure, adapted from Peter Benchley's best-selling novel. Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) and David Sanders (Nick Nolte) are on a romantic holiday in Bermuda when they come upon the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter. Near it, they find an ampule of morphine, one of tens of thousands still aboard the wrecked ship. Their discovery leads them to a Haitian drug dealer, Cloche (Louis Gossett), and an old treasure hunter, Romer Treece (Robert Shaw). With Cloche in pursuit, Gail, David and Treece try to recover the sunken treasure. (101 Films)
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The underwater shots are great, adding on some proper suspense. Add in an Indiana Jones-like story and you get The Deep. It’s more of an adventurous and mysterious movie than a horror, but most of all it is a really well-made film that I enjoyed from start to finish. Not only because of its story, but also because of Jacqueline Bisset or the nice acting performances by Nick Nolte or Robert Shaw.
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Beautiful underwater shots (including shots of Jacqueline Bisset, of course), the hilarious duo of Nolte and Shaw, the scruffy schemer Eli Wallach, the mystery of sunken shipwrecks, treasure, morphine, mobsters, John Barry's haunting music... The Deep is an adventure film the way it should be. Maybe it’s a bit long and with a bit of a throwaway final underwater fight, but whatever. The final death of one of the villains erased all the awkwardness of the previous ten minutes.
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An average and not very entertaining adventure thriller.
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