That's the business model of a trio of ragtag, devil-may-care, sea-going adventurers (Treat Williams, Kevin J. O Conner, Una Damon).........
The trio unwisely agree to transport a gang of hardcore mercenaries who plan to torpedo a massive cruise ship in an elaborate insurance scam.....a scheme concocted by none other than cruise ship's slimy, unctuous owner (Anthony Heald).......
Ah but cruel fate and reversal of fortune arrive for everybody when the ship is seized and infested by a giant tentacled monster, who proceeds to gobble all the passengers, sucking on 'em like clementine oranges and spitting out the remains in huge piles.......
In our own timeless words whenever we encounter a movie like this.......Wooohoooo!
Of course critics despised 'Deep Rising' dismissing it as derivative junk, but that's precisely why we love it so........we rarely come across a movie that so revels in its junky-ness that it becomes intoxicating to watch.
You can tell writer director Stephen Sommers had the time of his life creating an unrepentant pulpy big-ass monster movie and the infectious fun of it permeates through the entire film. There isn't a believable or serious moment in it and we wouldn't have it any other way.
And the game cast is definitely up for it, trading snappy wisecracks and insults as they're catapulted into perpetual hairbreadth escapes to keep themselves off the monster's catch-of-the-day menu.......it's simultaneously funny, thrilliing , gooey and gory.........all of it propelled by a pulsating Jerry Goldsmith score.
For all lovers of junk movies, we say........park your brain on the shelf, cook up a giant batch of movie-theater butter popcorn and settle down for a monstrous good time. BQ doesn't care how many critics turned their noses up or mocked this movie........to us, it's a little 'o Guilty Pleasure heaven.......
Memo to critics: If the squid is there......we do not care.......4 stars (****).
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