Abismo

An average and not very entertaining adventure thriller. (29.01.2010)

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. (17.12.2012)

Jacqueline Bisset, who with her boycott of neoprene leaves little to the audience’s imagination, Nick Nolte with a mustache repelling moray eels, deep-sea wolf Robert Shaw, and the exotic setting of Bermuda (underwater British Virgin Islands and the Great Barrier Reef). With John Barry's music playing, you occasionally feel like you're watching a Bond film with Connery. It would be a nice adventure if it weren’t dragging like slime from seaweed, and if the appeal had been more fully explored. Plus, Nick is a terrible softie here. It takes him forever to get to Arianna, who is being toyed with by Karpof’s voodoo villains. That wouldn’t have happened to Bob Saint-Clair. (31.08.2023)

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. (24.03.2013)