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Editorial
Product Description
Estranged oil-platform workers and a Navy SEAL make a startling deep-sea discovery. Directed by James Cameron. Includes extra footage.
Editorial
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Meticulously crafted but also ponderous and predictable, James Cameron's 1989 deep-sea close-encounter epic reaffirms one of the oldest first principles of cinema: everything moves a lot more slowly underwater. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some "issues" to work out, are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on earth, and the petro-techies have the only submersible craft capable of diving down that far. Every image and every performance is painstakingly sharp and detailed (and the computerized water creatures are lovely) but the movie's lumbering pace is ultimately lethal. It's the audience that ends up feeling waterlogged. For a guy who likes guns as much as Cameron (his next film after all, was the body-count masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day), it's interesting that the moral balance here is weighted heavily in favor of the can-do engineers; the military types are end-justifies-the-means amoralists, just like the weasely government bureaucrats in Aliens. --David Chute
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Ed Harris
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Michael Biehn
Leo Burmester
Todd Graff
Creators:
Mikael Salomon (Cinematographer)
James Cameron (Writer)
Conrad Buff IV (Editor)
Howard E. Smith (Editor)
Joel Goodman (Editor)
Gale Anne Hurd (Producer)
Van Ling (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
EAN: 0024543036739
Binding: DVD
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2003-02-11
Universal product code (UPC): 024543036739
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region code: 1
Running time: 138 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)
Brand: TCFHE