OK, I like monster movies. Granted, they're not as imaginative and brilliant as in the 50's, when stuff like The Giant Mantis, Tarantula, or Ladybug! was challenging audiences with dialogue like "Look, a giant aphid! Run!", but a big slimy monster and a body count of 8 or 10 suits me just fine.
A sense of humor is essential to enjoying corny monster movies. If you play it too straight, the audience may get angry: "Oh, yeah, like I'm supposed to believe he could still crack wise while he's being swallowed from the waist down by some gooey monster." or "That completely fictional and non-existent monster looks so fake, doesn't it?” Deep Rising recognizes it's own familiarity and cliches. It offers a few good performances, and more than its share of jolts and real bloody mayhem.
This fancy-shmancy luxury liner is experiencing some technical difficulties (see plot keyword: sabotage) when it's attacked by some huge wet and green thing that's been hibernating in some deep freshwater blahblahblah. Anyway, we see a small amount of freaking by these rich people who are about to become a buffet, and then we get to meet our heroes. Scrappy captain Treat Williams (in full-on pseudo-Indy mode here) and his racially and stereotype-balanced crew show up at the ship. They go on board with some aggressive treasure-hunting nutbags, and they all systematically get eaten in some particularly nasty scenes.
Our hero finds the only hot and sexy survivor, and sticks to her like brown on poop; they escape some of the ickyness, and make a split-second escape/slaying of the creature. Strictly by the numbers here, kids, but it worked for most of the time. Adequate and well-timed comic relief helped, and some especially nasty villains always raise the blood a little, and it's that much sweeter when they all get turned into reverse sushi. Deep Rising is widely despised, but it’s a pretty cool treat for monster fans. (I also liked Anaconda. Bring it on.)
Delivers the goods pretty accurately, with a good amount of sexy babes, brutal killings, and a neato-looking monster. This one makes me feel like I'm 12 again when and watching some horror movie that my parents would ground me for watching, and that’s fun. It’s dumb, loud, bloody and silly, but in a cool way.
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