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The Cruel Deep [1999]

Starring: Rob Lowe, Larisa Miller, Craig Wasson, Harry Van Gorkum, Scott Anthony Viscomi
Director: Jean Pellerin
Format: PAL
Released: 06 Mar 2000
RRP: £19.99
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WORTH YOUR TIME - JUST DONT EXECT THE BRILLIANCE OF LORD OF THE RINGS SPECIAL EFFECTS - By: stuart, 25 Oct 2008
I bought this for 99p with three other films (a 4 films on 2 dvds pack), the other films were JET, THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE & STORM & I have those to watch yet.

I decided to watch this today & I went in with low expectations - not expecting brilliant acting, special effects etc. Luckily it was pretty good for the price I paid for it.

Yes the plot we have seen countless times before in Die Hard, Under Siege (which is very similar to this) but another terrorist film can't hurt can it?

The story is: Rob Lowe is working alll the time & hardly see's his wife (who is annoyed) & decides to go on a cruise ship with a Greek student (who has teacher's pet/creep written alll over him. Rob Lowe finds this out & turns up on the cruise unannounced where he gets arrested for not having a passport.

At that moment terrorist take over & it then turns into a Die Hard type film hence action, shoot outs etc which I found pretty bloodless (but then this is rated a 12).

I found this enjoyable but also found quite a few flaws with the film:

1) With hundreds, if not thousands of passengers on board the ferry, when it sunk what happened to them? Did they alll drown? I did not see one body or one survivor in the water.

2) I heard the sub captain say when ordered to torpedo the mini-sub, that the sub was a decommissioned naval vessel & therefore had no torpedoes. But a few minutes later, hey presto a total of two torpedoes were launched at the mini-sub, albeit unarmed. However they both managed to find their target but somehow managed to bounce harmlessly off of the mini-sub.

3: The CGI looked like a computer game (but that was to be expected).


But if you can overlook those problems this film is worth your time & yes there are better films out there that are very similar but if you've seen them alll & are looking for something to pass the time this is entertaining then pick this up.


Action romance novel to the big screen - By: B. Chandler, 05 Nov 2004
Move over Bruce Willis & Steven Seagal; here comes Rob Lowe. This has the ruthless bad guy frustrated by ex-military reluctant hero. There are "stay in the car scenes", & "I do not believe you" scenes. Lots of bombs & explosions & water. Tempered by gushy love & unrequited love on a verbal level.

Basic story line is an international art thief hires hit men with lots of equipment to recover a statue. Paralllel to this is the story of a woman who thinks her husband is boring & goes on vacation. Too bad for both groups as hubby shows up to recover wife & just happens to have extraordinary military skills.
Will the bad guy get the statue?
Will the lovers get together?
Or do the alll get wet under pressure?

Better than I first expected - By: , 06 Mar 2001
I just got a PlayStation2, which I've been waiting for, for about 2 years!!! I only have the DVDs I got from PlayStation World Magazine (PSW) which had a whole load of clips from games & movie trailers.

After watching a couple of movie trailers, I thought about getting either Mission Impossible 2, Gladiator, or The Matrix (but I've already seen this one) The Dolby Digital effects of the DVD was AMAZING!!!(Even though i only got the cables that came with the PS2 & connected the audio cables to our CD Player & the video cable to the TV via the SCART port) The picture was also good on the trailers.

My dad went to get some DVDs from somewhere but didn't get any of the ones that I wanted.....he said they were 'too expensive'! Instead he got The Cruel Deep from a sale in a shop. I thought it'd be a reallly bad film, something like : No good sound effects, extras, good picture quality, or a good story.

It was only after I watched the film that I realised that the plot would have been improved a lot, if reallly famous people starred in it(e.g. Tom Cruise), but it was OK. The sound was great, but the volume had to be turned up quite a lot. Because the sound on DVDs don't have noise, this was not a problem. Picture quality was also quite good!

The movie is based around a Greek artefact, which belonged to the Greek government, but an American collector also wanted it. A (classics)teacher goes to Greece to find out more about it, while she finds out that her husband is on the trip too. They meet on the ship, which has terrorists on board, working for Bates(the American collector), wanting to get the artefact back from the Greek government(who were transporting it back to the island of Lesvos, the home of the valued object, after it was seized from customs at the airport). Various events means that the teacher ends up with the artefact in her hands, & it an underwater struggle of a classic Goodie - VS - Baddie movie, of the teacher (Larissa Miller) & her husband (Rob Lowe) against the main terrorist guy. All this action is to take place on the ferry from Athens to the Greek Island of Lesvos. What will happen to the artefact? Who knows? Buy the movie!

Now please, please give me the £50 gift certificate Amazon.co.uk, so I can get more games (i want SSX!) for my new PS2!!! I mean, I did write the first review for this film!!