Shortly earlier than placing field workplace gold with “The Mummy” in 1999, Stephen Sommers wrote and directed 1998’s “Deep Rising,” a modestly budgeted science-fiction horror movie. A number of destructive opinions — together with one by Roger Ebert, who later featured it on his Most Hated listing — sank the movie upon launch, so you are not to be faulted if you have not heard of it. Nevertheless, when you preferred the motion, creature function thrills, and humor in “The Mummy,” you will get pleasure from “Deep Rising” as nicely — regardless of its 34% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Like “The Mummy,” “Deep Rising” follows a blueprint from traditional Hollywood and B-pictures: There is a fast-talking hero (Deal with Williams) and a intelligent heroine (Famke Janssen), a bunch of dangerous guys (together with Wes Studi, Anthony Heald, and Djimon Hounsou), and an insurmountable monster: a colossal, Lovecraftian sea creature with a style for passenger ships. The dialogue is breezy, the motion briskly paced, and the monster scenes appropriately gross. If there’s a difficulty with “Deep Rising,” it is the price range, which might undermine its particular results and manufacturing design. Should you can see previous that, you will most definitely agree with Ty Burr’s evaluation for Leisure Weekly: “It is fairly darn great — a tightly written, usually howlingly humorous ‘Aliens’ knockoff that, in its portrayal of robust males and harder girls beneath stress, favorably recollects the work of Howard Hawks.”